Quote Originally Posted by HoolieWho View Post
I like the core Materia concept of crafters customizing/enhancing gear. I don't like the spiritbond mechanic. I don't want to have to shelve my weapon of choice in favor of another weapon I equip only to churn out materia so I can enhance the weapon I'm not actually using. This is very similar to the Trial weapons of FFXI. Equip a junk weapon in order to learn a weaponskill you can then use with your good weapon equipped. I understand wanting a sink for crafted gear and a limiting bottleneck on how much materia can be produced, but please, find another way.

I also don't like the all-or-nothing feature of adding more than one materia to an item. The price of failure is too high. A progressively lower chance of success when trying to add successive materia to an item is good, but failure should just mean loss of the latest materia being added.
How about just buying the materia? Someone else is willing to make it for you. Also if you're so worried about failure, then don't attach more than 1 materia.