Quote Originally Posted by TrinityArrow View Post
Wow a lot of helpful advice since I left for work! I appreciate everyone giving their opinions. It gives me a lot to consider and I learned a lot already haha. I just have one more thing I'm confused about. I tried to put a mind materia on my plain shire top piece but it says the item level is too low to benefit, but when I put a piety materia of the same level it works fine? What am I doing wrong here xD?
Each piece has maxima for all the stats. If you look in the meld window, it'll show you the maxima at the bottom. The main stat on a piece of gear will be maxed without melds, so put things like determination and crit on instead. Main stat materia will only go on accessories, and even then, the main stat proper will be maxed already and none of the others main stats do anything for that gear's job, except in the cases of a tank adding strength to fending accessories or a non-tank raider adding vitality for survivability in new raid content.