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

[Anon]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-materia-raids

ehem don't say I didn't warn and try to stop it. my guilds havn't even tried ifrit hyper mode yet we're all crafting gear and creating materia...

we even both said " am i missing something"

and its only going to get worse when guaranteed hq is released.

they did a bunch of other silly things in this patch too such as killing hqing for mages because all it does now is raise the base damage of your weapon when you melee.

they also left ancient magic aoe but increased its power so thms are now usless due to con having aoe heal AND higher dps.

can't regen mana at all if you've attacked.

sigh.. and the worst one; they removed ability que..

this patch is a huge step backwards overall though it looks so nice. -_-

[Medura]

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.

3 hours to farm 3 catalysts, = 1 catalyst per hour.
NM gear = 2-3 gear per hour

im gonna call this balanced, as materia is extremely hard to attach cause of this.

[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

[grandm]

wonder how much your raid gear cost ya. coz materia is going for silly prices. also wonder what's the chance of you losing your raid gear, coz ppl are seeing how much materia they can attach and losing everything. but i guess the biggest point is you say raids are now useless, don't any1 do anything for fun anymore?

[Seikninkuru]

Quick someobe say Learn2Play since thats what ppl say whenever someone has criticism.

[Vahzl]

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

Oh? Did you? Right let's read on and find out what "balancing" you are referring to. This looks to be a fun thread!

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

Are they? I thought that we could equip our own items, and have full control over what we wear, see and do. But ok, let's move on...

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

I just took all my gear off and equipped my materia crafted boots. Now I have a sword and ma bootz! Weee time for naked fun, as you say, im just as powerful with only this item.

Unacceptable.

Erp, all credibility lost at this point sorry. Story ends here, no point reading further.

[RemVye]

(Hmmm.) So I should save 99 leve allowance and mass burn through them to craft huh... :/

[Molly_Millions]

the drops can also be fitted with materia from what I can tell. So if you add materia to the dropped gear it would be better than crafted gear with materia.

[Anon]

wow i can't believe the responses in this thread. lets all not care that the main content in the game is obsolete. mmos are for raids and teamwork if you want to craft and or play alone go play farmville.

[Colino]

wow i can't believe the responses in this thread. lets all not care that the main content in the game is obsolete. mmos are for raids and teamwork if you want to craft and or play alone go play farmville.

Stop crying pointlessly, the best way to create materia is grouping, just like gaining exp. So materia IS group content if you want to make it quickly.