Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
No offense, but instead of an elaborate post the short version of the matter is they're clearly forcing us into making use of Materia to enhance our stats.

They also rebalanced the algorithms, as people noticed.

Gear has more of a purpose than it used to.

Targets you're fighting matters much more now (5+ over level will destroy a lot of classes now, if not all solo.)

What's the problem?
Dated gear has increased stats to make up for their inability to have materia attached to them. You're imposing your personal beliefs on people stating that they MUST use materia and care about their gear. You don't bother supporting your claims, or try to actually constructively help people having trouble, you just toss out your personal opinion and shove it off like it's something factual you're trying to support. It's not.

And if it is, then support it. Because so far it's BS. This whole thing happened at 1.18 too, and telling people to L2P didn't fix it. Trying new things and helping each other did. So, if you don't have anything to contribute to people having trouble, then go post in a different thread. Or preferably a different forum, maybe the one you're a "senior moderator" for over at Core, they'll probably put up with it.