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

[Volsung]

You bring up a good topic DNO, for anyone that doesnt know the HQ/NQ system will be changing and nobody knows the specifics of it. ATM not all stats are effected by hq/nq. On armor it is just the defensive stats that are altered. If the crafted nq gear has hp on it, the hq version still has the same hp. So you could theoretically have gear (solid scale mail) that has wonderful effects like str, but its def will be considerably lower than hq gear.

on weapons the offensive stats are altered. and when you compare a raid weapon, like the canopus guisarme to HQ weapons it is outclassed.

I wish we had some word on the changing hq/nq system

[DNO]

You bring up a good topic DNO, for anyone that doesnt know the HQ/NQ system will be changing and nobody knows the specifics of it. ATM not all stats are effected by hq/nq. On armor it is just the defensive stats that are altered. If the crafted nq gear has hp on it, the hq version still has the same hp. So you could theoretically have gear (solid scale mail) that has wonderful effects like str, but its def will be considerably lower than hq gear.

on weapons the offensive stats are altered. and when you compare a raid weapon, like the canopus guisarme to HQ weapons it is outclassed.

I wish we had some word on the changing hq/nq system

Yea true. I do not think (or know) SE will lower all HQ stats but they could. They like to tell us gimps on things the day of the update like the THM gimp. lol that was the day of the update lol.