Quote Originally Posted by mysterytaru View Post
Once again, you're using NQ and suboptimal interchangeably. Using NQ gear isn't an issue. Suboptimal, to normal people, means not using rank appropriate gear because you're making a materia with a lower piece to slot into a higher piece to turn that higher piece with slotted materia into yet another, better, materia.
Why would they do this? Wasn't it confirmed that a equip with materia get the same materia type like the same equip without materia? That it based only on the equip what a materia you get?