Rare/ex gear and non-convertible

[Jinko]

I think it is just another aspect of how the game is de-valuing the non crafted items. It takes a lot of the drive out of doing those dungeons.

This 100%.

I've said it in other threads, but the way the dev team are favouring crafters like this is going to bite them in the ass eventually.

What really is the purpose of doing dungeons if craftable gear is much better, granted Ifrits weapons are pretty nice and its very hard to find a craftable melee weapon anywhere near as good but what about armor ?

Repeatable content and dungeon are an MMO's bread and butter and it really makes me wonder what SE are going to do when nobody wants to do a dungeon more than one to get the achievement, the only reason people are desperately doing Ifrit so many times is because the loot system sucks.

Getting back on topic /grins
I'm not really too worried about converting U/U but I don't see why we can't have U/U gear have 1 materia slot, especially with the upcomming bazaar changes allowing materia to be added by a third party.