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

[grandm]

A great deal of the fun related to most MMO activities is, plain and simply, the reward at the end. Overcoming a hard content and earning a well received and useful reward IS one major reason to do raids, kill bosses, whatever.

When said rewards are of much lower quality than what can be obtained via other means, it does take away part of the point of doing raids. Not saying dungeon gear - MUST - be better than crafted + materia, but should at the very least be somewhat comparable. Balance is important for both crafters and fighters. Specially since slotting a single materia on a sword IS pretty trivial (but somewhat more expensive) compared to doing a Dzemael speed run, no offense. >_>

think you kinda made the argument for me, the expense is the balance. but anyway i think it has been said in later patches you will be able to put materia on raid gear. imagine it using raid gear to make materia then using that materia on more raid gear. and see how many materia you can put on one piece, you'll never be out of a dungeons with a challange like that

[Molly_Millions]

think you kinda made the argument for me, the expense is the balance. but anyway i think it has been said in later patches you will be able to put materia on raid gear. imagine it using raid gear to make materia then using that materia on more raid gear. and see how many materia you can put on one piece, you'll never be out of a dungeons with a challange like that

Indeed. I can't believe people are complaining about the single most important change that has been made to this game. It defies logic.