[dev1017] Materia crafting system & Materia: A Matter of Mystery (08/26/2011)

[Sorel]

I wonder how they plan to balance stats in a way that would allow you to have 5 +STR materia in all of your gear slots. There has to be some limitation on this or you could effectively double your STR. Maybe you will only be able to equip one of each type of materia per gear slot.

If I were designing it, I would make Materia modify existing stats by a percentage.

• Tier 1 Materia increases stats by 5%
• Tier 2 Materia increases stats by 10%
• Tier 3 Materia increases stats by 15%
• Tier 4 Materia increases stats by 20%

So if you had a stat of 100, and you somehow managed to get a piece of equipment with (5) Tier 4 Materia your final stat would be:

100 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 200.

But I don't think the Development Team is going to go that route.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Wait, are we talking about 5 different grades of materia or being able to put 5 materia on one piece of gear?

5 materias in one single piece of gears is what you will be able to do.

There will be 4 tiers of materias, which I guess will require a certain gear level to attach to (like 4th tier will be for gears level 40 to 50)

To answer your question on the other post, yes in theory if they have a +5 accuracy materia, you'll be able to put 5 of that materia in every gear applicable, ending up with a massive accuracy bonus, but the risk is VERY high for attaching 5 materias so it might take a long while and a lot of time/money to achieve that.

Also, while getting a HUGE accuracy boost, you are not boosting anything else like STR, VIT, Magic resist, crit and w/e other materia that could be good for your class. So someone with over the top accuracy might not be better than someone with varied augments ^^

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Why? It sounds good to me. If anything this should increase the activity of the economy.

Hedgehog for Prez!?!?!

[DGMart]

Please show the materia/color/gem on your gear. I think that would be a nice touch even though it probably wont happen.

[Karvapeikko]

Pretty excited for the system. Now I only have to level up my crafts and gathering >.>
Also just for funsies my guess for effectiveness:

Tier I: +1
Tier II: +2
Tier III: +3
Tier IV: +4
double or triple values for HP and MP bonuses.

This way every piece of gear (not counting jewerly and undergarments) can hold total of +20 stats, +120 combined. Great boost but very difficult to get.

Also I predict chances of succes as following:

1st: 100% (confirmed)
2nd: 80%
3rd: 60%
4th: 40%
5th: 20%

This would make chances of attaining fully specced gear a whopping 3.84% (0.8*0.6*0.4*0.2*100%) which is approximately 1 of 26. Makes pretty much sense to me.

All of this is pure speculation.

[Holyomen]

5 materias in one single piece of gears is what you will be able to do.

There will be 4 tiers of materias, which I guess will require a certain gear level to attach to (like 4th tier will be for gears level 40 to 50)

To answer your question on the other post, yes in theory if they have a +5 accuracy materia, you'll be able to put 5 of that materia in every gear applicable, ending up with a massive accuracy bonus, but the risk is VERY high for attaching 5 materias so it might take a long while and a lot of time/money to achieve that.

Also, while getting a HUGE accuracy boost, you are not boosting anything else like STR, VIT, Magic resist, crit and w/e other materia that could be good for your class. So someone with over the top accuracy might not be better than someone with varied augments ^^

So getting grade IV Materia on your gear is the easy part, just need high level gear.
But getting multi-materia gear is what will be tricky.
Gotcha.

[Carzilla]

too bad you cant convert your dingle to materia you'd be soo powerful

[Carzilla]

I hope the element based materia gives your gear a subtle glow

[AlphaDragoon]

So let me get this straight:

You have to be Level 18 in a class to get the item to make Materia. Okay, cool. You have to be Level 18 in a crafting class to get the item to actually use the Materia you made. Sucks for people who don't like crafting (paying someone else to do it is an option, as they said) but I can see why they did it. Once you get the Materia made and get the ability to make it (or get someone to make it for you), you also have to get a catalyst item. Cool, gives the miners and such something to do.

Once you have all that and you go to make the item...if it fails you lose the Materia AND the gear? ...Seriously?

They seriously pulled something so stupid even the "geniuses" at current era Sonic Team realized "hey, this is dumb you shouldn't lose the gear itself when you fail to upgrade" and dropped quickly in Phantasy Star Universe's life cycle? I sure hope not.

[Sigtyr]

I don't like losing the piece of equipment either.

I'd rather just lose the materia and all other materia that are within the piece of equipment you're upgrading.