1 Materia makes any crafted item better than any NM/Raid/Dungeon item. Why?

[DoctorMog]

I thought there was supposed to be some sort of balancing going on here?

Every Dungeon item, every NM item, all useless if they are unique/untradable.

A single materia of appropriate level in any crafted item makes NM/raid gear useless.

Unacceptable.

This makes raiding pointless.

There is no reason to do Batraal anymore. Nor kill any of the world NMs.

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

[tragic]

I look at the materia page on FFXIV pro and then I think about vendoring every unique I have to free up some space. Before I click to sell button I think to myself maybe it will be cool to have this useless gear equipped so I can wear it in town. Now while it seems almost everything from before is useless what I am wondering how is how attack power scales. I think Ifrit items are the only thing with attack power and with a base of 20 that may be pretty significant depending on how attack power scales. However, you can get 30 attack power through materia! So it would seem not only the NM items from the past are garbage so are the new ones.

[Medura]

I look at the materia page on FFXIV pro and then I think about vendoring every unique I have to free up some space. Before I click to sell button I think to myself maybe it will be cool to have this useless gear equipped so I can wear it in town. Now while it seems almost everything from before is useless what I am wondering how is how attack power scales. I think Ifrit items are the only thing with attack power and with a base of 20 that may be pretty significant depending on how attack power scales. However, you can get 30 attack power through materia! So it would seem not only the NM items from the past are garbage so are the new ones.

Nesttlepicker (bow) got attackpower, and is extremely strong! is totally worth it from 35-40 :P

[Murugan]

I thought there was supposed to be some sort of balancing going on here?

Every Dungeon item, every NM item, all useless if they are unique/untradable.

A single materia of appropriate level in any crafted item makes NM/raid gear useless.

Unacceptable.

This makes raiding pointless.

There is no reason to do Batraal anymore. Nor kill any of the world NMs.

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

Can not sentinel etc. gear from coffers be fitted with Materia?

[Rinsui]

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

1.) Composure.
2.) What? Your angst?

[Moiren]

Can not sentinel etc. gear from coffers be fitted with Materia?

No "etc", just Sentinel. Others (Sorcerer, Sipahi, etc) are R/E.

And btw, coffer or craft, if they can be sold there's not much difference. They still can be bought and everyone can have them, even who never does content.

[Murugan]

No "etc", just Sentinel. Others (Sorcerer, Sipahi, etc) are R/E.

And btw, coffer or craft, if they can be sold there's not much difference. They still can be bought and everyone can have them, even who never does content.

So? XI was like that. Didn't bother me much as an endgame player, it certainly did not diminish the accomplishment of killing those mobs myself (in fact it made my shell rich so I never had to farm, craft, or much else I didn't want to).

Also Darkhold gear is not best in slot (lol most of it never was), but it is decent starter/filler gear for those at 50 who do not have very good materia/crafted gear in many slots. Maybe it could be made a little better now to compensate (it did get a boost, but not enough), but we all knew it wasn't going to be able to be slotted with materia well before the patch.

[Xeno]

Chill bro, you know they will make UU equipment meldable next patch. If they don't they are dumb. Simple as that.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I believe they said something along the lines of looking into allowing r/ex items to be "slotted" with materia but they wanted to view the system as it is now before making the commitment to that change. Let's just feel it out for a couple weeks, before jumping to the /angry emotes.

[Gramul]

lol i dunno.