Horizontal progression? In MY theme park?!

[Bacent]

I think we need a leveling experience after we reach max level. I've always said they need to add job specific materia. In that way you still have the vertical gear grind but a horizontal xp grind to keep improving.

They used to have materia for everything back in 1.X actually.

Some materia could only be used by certain classes, and materia could only be put on certain pieces of gear

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/M...sy_XIV)/Legacy

If you want to see what it used to look like.

There's also the fact that in anything sync'd in game, we lose materia bonuses.

[Dyvid]

They used to have materia for everything back in 1.X actually.

Some materia could only be used by certain classes, and materia could only be put on certain pieces of gear

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/M...sy_XIV)/Legacy

If you want to see what it used to look like.

There's also the fact that in anything sync'd in game, we lose materia bonuses.

Yea I remember. The key point I"m trying to make though is people do need goals not only to gear up but continue to expand. Since materia was of a similar vein of FFXI Merit system it would be logical to have it as the means to expand our characters job beyond that of just xpac grinding.