Materia: The replay value booster.

[Hikozaemon]

Materia: The replay value booster.

So, here's why:

1) Run a dungeon 15 times, get solid scale mail. (yay!)
1a) Make a HQ item after 50 synths (yay!)
2) Get the spritbond to 100% and break it into materia (optional, you can break something else or buy the materia)
3) Place 5 materia into the item and fail on the 4th or 5th, lose the solid scale mail or HQ item in the process.
4) Repeat steps 1-3 50 times for every item you need from every single class you have leveld.

Get ready to do the same content over and over and over and over and over again everyone.

You are going to need to to max stats on gear.

Also:

LoL @ when they release gear better than what you have on. Start all over again from square 1.

fairly sure they stated that you wont be able to add materia to Rare/unique NM dropped gear thats the downside of NM gear in the future as to where you will be able to add up to 5 materia to a reg/HQ gear to make it more impressive than NM gear......

[MeowyWowie]

fairly sure they stated that you wont be able to add materia to Rare/unique NM dropped gear thats the downside of NM gear in the future as to where you will be able to add up to 5 materia to a reg/HQ gear to make it more impressive than NM gear......

Except you're forgetting that the majority of NM/raid gear is already obsolete compared to HQ crafted gear.

[DoctorMog]

Except you're forgetting that the majority of NM/raid gear is already obsolete compared to HQ crafted gear.

Yeah, kinda lame that crafted gear (hq) is already better, easier to obtain and is just going to get better...

Crafted gear should be the best crafting gear.

Dungeon gear should be the best mele/mage gear.

They naturally lend themselves to each other.

[Seikninkuru]

Yeah, kinda lame that crafted gear (hq) is already better, easier to obtain and is just going to get better...

Crafted gear should be the best crafting gear.

Dungeon gear should be the best mele/mage gear.

They naturally lend themselves to each other.

I disagree.

[Hikozaemon]

Except you're forgetting that the majority of NM/raid gear is already obsolete compared to HQ crafted gear.

um wth are u talking about?!. i was simply stating that NM gear was not going to be able to have materia attached to it according to a previous post of the dev. team as many where posting that they couldnt wait to attach materia to there NM gear lol. And yes pretty well any HQ crafted weapon is better than NM dropped ones but on the otherhand most all armor that is dropped by NMs is far superior to crafted ones of comparable levels. Materia is being introduced as a way to surpass NM gear and a way to more so customize gear sets/ etc not only by stats but by what u like appearance wise too.

[MeowyWowie]

um wth are u talking about?!. i was simply stating that NM gear was not going to be able to have materia attached to it according to a previous post of the dev. team as many where posting that they couldnt wait to attach materia to there NM gear lol. And yes pretty well any HQ crafted weapon is better than NM dropped ones but on the otherhand most all armor that is dropped by NMs is far superior to crafted ones of comparable levels. Materia is being introduced as a way to surpass NM gear and a way to more so customize gear sets/ etc not only by stats but by what u like appearance wise too.

Assuming you mean lower rank rare/ex NM gear, there are only a few that are better than crafted gear. As for r50 NM gear, all of it is crafted.

Can you post a link of where the dev team said we will not be able to augment NM gear?