How about letting us slot one materia to rare/ex gear?

[syntaxlies]

should be like this
equality
crafted gear 70% rare100%
+1 materia 80%
+2 materia 90%
+3 materia 100%
+4 materia 110%
+5 materia 120%

these percentages are based on the assumption that bonding the 4th and 5th piece of meteria will be fairly difficult.

so what i mean by this is rare gear shoul be obviously better then crafted, but after putting 3 materia on crafted you see the gear start to even out. if you can get 4 or 5 materia on it you'll se the gear start to outperform the rare gear.

i think doing this would create a better sense of gear balance. you dont want either gear to become obsolete so a system like this would give some flexibility.

right now crafted and rare gear stats are too close that rare gear will become obsolete, they shold at least make rare gear turn into rare materia.