T5 Crafting/Gathering Materia, WHY THE DELAY

[TechnoTechie]

It will be based on the vendor sets, just like battle content is based around the sets they can obtain from the vendor/drops. They would not screw over every single person who opts for the vendor sets - that's bad game design, I am extremely confident in saying without a doubt that a scenario like that will not happen. They cost significantly more than the 170 versions and are not designed as intermediate gear.

Those stats would likely be bare minimum though, agreed. But it's far more powerful to know a ballpark, so that you don't need to shoot for something crazy like 919 craftsmanship and 860 control just to be able to initiate the craft.

well, one of the reasons I was thinking that way was because even with the i150 sets, you need food or pentamelds to even begin crafting 2-star without getting any of the i180 pieces. I wouldn't put it past SE to require your accessories and belt to be max-melded, with at least penta-melded IV on your off-hand tool and a food buff to meet 3-star stats.

[Ohiuu]

This is mostly an issue related to the fact that 3.0 reset everything back to its basic form similar to when we were all in 2.0 content. Did you see a lot of grade IV kicking around in 2.0? No, because only people converting vanya and whatnot were seeing them. True grade IV materia did come at a rare chance from the AF crafting sets and whatnot but that was back when we ONLY had i55 gear (battle materia IV is classed as i70 while crafting IV is classed i55). In this incarnation they decided to add crafting iLVLs similar to battle iLVLs (craft/gather/battle materia are i160) so we're not going to really see (or truly need) these tier Vs until 3.2 when a new tier of recipes comes out and we burn up our old i170 crafting sets (at which time I hope they will alter the way they're made and allow us to create them en masse to convert later on).

[Nomad-phx]

From what I'm told grade V has 0% success to overmeld so pretty much just 1/2 per piece. Vs actually aren't required to cap the 170 head, hands, pants,shoes,rings.

[papichulo123]

also when are we getting level 6 materia

[TechnoTechie]

From what I'm told grade V has 0% success to overmeld so pretty much just 1/2 per piece. Vs actually aren't required to cap the 170 head, hands, pants,shoes,rings.

incorrect.