PSA you can get free tier 4 materia from old Beast Tribe quests

[Ulathskullsplitter]

The way materia is spread out between different quests is kind of a hassle if you are looking for certain types of materia. Did mine today looking for crit materia and had to go to every beast tribe to get 5 crit and 1 determination. Was hoping each tribe would have certain ones for every quest so you would know where to go to get the ones you want.

[FoxyAreku]

People are probably waiting on tier Vs.

I only use tier IV materia for overmelds, personally. And that's only available on crafted gear.

[Felis]

Damnit, wish they would have told us beast tribes would be worth something. I've never done any.

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[Neophyte]

Every little bit of stat increase helps you preform better. It is not a good excuse saying it doesn't matter much. It just shows who cares more about being the best they can be.

If you're not raiding, you probably don't need them and can sell them.
Like buff food. Do you use Steamed Staff for clearing Antitower?

[Caitlinzulu]

It is way more then that.

Example for Paladins
Tier 4
Left side = 108 crit Right side = 35 str
33 attack power increase

with 850 base attack 3.88% increase

Tier 5
Left side = 144 crit Right side = 75 str
56 attack power increase

with 850 base attack 6.58% increase.

The question is why wouldn't you want to make your character stronger? Once again saying it doesn't make much of a difference isn't a good excuse if you want to play your class to the best you can at least do something that is easy and fill your materia slots. When I see people missing materia in DF I assume they don't care enough about their class.

Yes indeed you show melding makes your attacks stronger. But is that relevant?
I wont be talking about savage raiding where each % can count but about regular dungeons.
And I'd say in there its irrelevant. A 6% increase in damage using grade V's in theory translates to way less in reality. How many attacks are wasted because the mob dies before your attack hits? Also you can meld in Grade X's which tripple your attack power but that wond speed up all the time you spend in dungeons running up to the next mob or the waiting time before a boss to let mp/tp refill. So an increase of 6% in damage will never decrease the time a duty takes with 6%.

Also we get just the 1 grade V materia a week from void ark. And while you can get them from diadem its a huge grind to get enough spoils to meld all your gear. Buying off the marketboard is not really an option because of materia prices.
You could say meld in grade IV but do you really want to spend gil on that for a marginal increase just to replace it later?
Also the big reason why a lot of the people i know are holding off on melding gear is the uncertainty if the melded lore gear will keep its melded materia when upgraded later on to ilvl 240.
Also by the time you're fully outfitted in melded gear using the weekly void ark drop its almost 3 months later and we'll have another patch with a new level of token gear.

So dont be too harsh on people who dont meld their gear, to some its simply not worth it really.

[Fluffya]

Materias are lost. You dont upgrade the gears, you trade them with an item for better ones.

[Powe]

If I meld my i230 gear it'll just be IV materia, when you upgrade to i240 you'll lose your melds so it's not a huge importance for me yet also the prices in the my are outrageous T.T

[Gilraen]

To be brutally honest, the only people I can see actually using materia in any amount on end game gear are those healers able to dance the line between healing and damage dealing. Healer equipment has a stark lack of accuracy and materia can easily make up the difference. But, again, it's not something they'd likely want to do on pre-upgraded equipment given the cost.

[Anubis_Nephthys]

mounts, anima quests and 3.2 patch node

Don't care about mounts, I got my after only one round of beast tribes (i didn't lose out on much), patch node?

[Spawnie]

mounts, anima quests and 3.2 patch node

only reason i originally started the beast tribes was for the mask :P and mounts as an added bonus lol