Forbidden Materia

[Evenstar]

It is a great and smart system. Everyone can use the materia system, but if you want to be the best and have the best you have to be pretty hardcore to get it done. Both sides win, what else do we want ...

You guys should stop whining about things you are not able to achieve because you do not have the time to do it. I probably wont have enough time to get the best of the best, but I am ok with it.

It is like people whining about not being able to get the platinum trophy on a PS3 game because they cant get some of the gold ones ..... suck it up lol.

[Royal]

Is there a list of the caps for materia? I remember reading that you can only get +280 hp from materia but I can't find that in game anywhere.

EDIT: Found link illustrating what i'm talking about:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post341227

[Gramul]

Is there a list of the caps for materia? I remember reading that you can only get +280 hp from materia but I can't find that in game anywhere.

EDIT: Found link illustrating what i'm talking about:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post341227

Well considering you can't even get to +280 with one piece of equipment with 5 HP IV +28 attached, it's a fair limit.

[Royal]

I got a HP +60 the other night and it caps at +70.

http://www.ffxivpro.com/materia

This means that you can only put on 4 HP +70 materia before you max out on all of your gear. Is the cap on a per item basis or an overall inventory cap?

[Gramul]

I got a HP +60 the other night and it caps at +70.

http://www.ffxivpro.com/materia

This means that you can only put on 4 HP +70 materia before you max out on all of your gear. Is the cap on a per item basis or an overall inventory cap?

Maybe the cap is dependent on what materia you use.

　　・最大上昇合計：　+280
Maximum increase total: +280
　　・マテリガ単体の最大値： +28
Materia IV's maximum effect: +28

[Royal]

Ya, i'm confused. Is there any way to see the cap in game? Anyone know?

[Vexerus]

Is it possible to dye gear after slotting it with materia?

[Roaran]

I hope everyone realizes, with these low probabilites, it costs several billion gil on average to produce something like an item worth 100k with 5 materia on it.

There's VERY LITTLE to gain going past the second materia addition, and the cost is extremely high. I don't believe there will ever be a character with 5 materia in all slots.

Edit: I'm not complaining or suggesting it should be different, it's certainly a good model. Just trying to let people know what they might be getting into, or what they think they're complaining about.

[zzapp]

I'm not even close to melding a second materia but I do have a question. If it's already answered here, my apologies. If I had a top end materia G3 vs. a lower end G4, would it be wise to meld the upper G3, and if I did that would I increase my chances of a 2nd meld. In other words, I'm assuming the difficulty is tier related in combination. Thanks.

[Rhomagus]

For all of those suggesting the percentage for forbidden materia craft success be raised, I wholeheartedly disagree.

If they raise the percentage then they'll lower either stat effectiveness or materia stats. I'll take my +20 STR attached to 7 different pieces of armor = +140 STR and be happy with that.

To those that want double or quadruple that they can deal with the risk in my opinion. Until they release content that requires a full party to have those kind of inflated stats I'm really not concerned and I don't think you should be either.