Quote Originally Posted by Synfrag View Post
Slightly off the topic of Healing Potency materia. Critical materias such as Critical Attack, and Critical Magic it seems are a 1:1 with what it says. As Coglin pointed out, an increase of say 7% will give you the numeric value of that percentage in effect for your healing magic rather than a 1:1 face value which isn't much different.

I had Critical Attack stacked to 60 on my PGL and vs. equal level mobs my Crits went up by 40-60 dmg, now with Criticals, we have no known base value so this is assumed to be a 1. I have not tested Magical Crit but friends have and they reported basically the same results.

This leads me to the belief that materia is actually priced ass backwards right now and Stat materia is actually the way to go. I would test it first of course but I have a feeling stacking MND will have better results for healers. I say this assuming critical calculations take into account total MND vs. Base and then add the equipment MND as a modifier. I could be completely wrong here. I'm switching my PGL Crit set over to STR to see if my assumptions are correct and that should translate for the most part to what MND will do for your average heals and crits.

My CNJ is only 34 and I don't plan to invest anything into materia until we are dead certain what roles the mages will play.
the way info around what level stats, etc your pug was, and the actual numbers would be useful. In general i doubt its a direct 1 to 1 boost for say increasing attack, simply because i have like 485 attack on pugilist, yet i never do 485 dmg a non geared up lancer will also have fairly close attack, but do way more per hit. My feeling is its more complex than a 1 to 1 rating. But no theory should be thrown out without testing, so maybe you re right