why i don't think materia will kill off dungeons

[Brannigan]

Allowing dropped gear to meld materia is the only path for the game going forward. Otherwise you end up with a situation where crafted is king forever (which kills real content) or a situation where dropped gear is SO good that crafted gear and materia are worthless (which invalidates the materia system). Plus there's the whole thing where it feels kind of stupid to get the best gear in the game from grinding a mindless slot machine in town.

[grandm]

ok i have a question. i wonder if a hardcore plaer can answer me this

you just spent 40mil to get set of 3M gear, i have heard that all content is now a waste of time to you. as you have the best ger in the game. what are tou going to do now? did you really just spend 40mil to stand around in ul'dah all day?

so i hear hardcore players will be willing to spend 40mil on this gear, but casual wont they will still have to raid, to get their gear. so another question/questions lol

Mr casual player your raid gear looks quite nice, but i hear its useless. does that mean you get bet by everything while you wear it? i'm going to guess that raid gear is up to the job and thats not the problem. is the problem that your look at your fellow adventurer and think, his is better than mine?

the fact is your aid gear is more than good enough to beat content, and it came free. if some1 wants to shell out 40mill for a set of gear that will only need to be replaced with even more expensive gear after the level cap. where as you can go down the dungeons and pick up more free gear. i could understand the complaint if your gear was rubbish and you got beat all the time

[MeowyWowie]

This is a reminder to me of why the materia system sucks.

Heh, I'd have to agree with this.

I find myself spending 90% of my time farming mats to make gloves, shouting in Uldah for materia, synthing the gloves or melding the materia onto them..

Yea it's addicting, but is this all I really have to look forward to? I'm already starting to get bored of it. Often times I question why I'm even doing it. It's supposed to make me stronger, but for what? I don't need uber stats to make the best gear in the game. Hell, doing it naked has no effect on how successful I am..

I'm starting to think that the materia system was not such a good choice by SE. At the very least, the way it works just doesn't cut it for hardcore players.

[syntaxlies]

its funny that the *hard core* feel they need crazy gear like that when average gear and proper skill is all you need. i would never drop 22 mil on a piece of gear for bragging rights, its not like i made it. If i made it then id be very proud to have it, but id probably sell it to someone who feels its worth 22 mil,lol.

[DoctorMog]

its funny that the *hard core* feel they need crazy gear like that when average gear and proper skill is all you need. i would never drop 22 mil on a piece of gear for bragging rights, its not like i made it. If i made it then id be very proud to have it, but id probably sell it to someone who feels its worth 22 mil,lol.

I'm hardcore and I wouldn't either.

Don't confuse "stupidity" with "hardcore"

kthx.

[Lucifer]

I suggested this a while ago, but they should consider adding unique materia that comes from specific items. If you factor this kind of system in to raid gear, you solve every problem the materia system has implemented.
They are probably doing something like this though. There is no way this current system is their vision of refined.

[Molly_Millions]

I'll go on dungeon runs all day long for 0 gear (because I have what I want already) so that the folks in my LS that don't have the gear can get some. I do it because it's fun. I can't be the only one who doesn't do content out of greed.

[syntaxlies]

I'm hardcore and I wouldn't either.

Don't confuse "stupidity" with "hardcore"

kthx.

i guess you didn't notice the * *, i to would prob be considered hard core but there are people out there who always wanna be more hard core then the next guy. there is no real definition for it.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Some of the posts, it sounds like gear is the endgame goal and not the completion of the content. That's probably not the case, but it just sounds like it.

On the gear note, I think that raid / NM drops should have effects that crafted / materia cannot replicate so far while the at least the raw muscle of gear that is comparable to an NQ 1-slot (balance as needed based on "epicness").

*High lever weapons with silence, slow, poison, paralysis, or maddening effects for example (as opposed to level 14~35 dated gladiator-only weapons).

*Weapons with significantly higher chances to crit, sexy crits, parries stun enemies or deal damage, drain HP or MP based on damage dealt, etc.

*Gear that has a chance to afflict sleep to the attacker when hit (save the mage that got the aggro), a chance to absorb MP from incoming spell damage, a damage shield effect like Shock Spikes, a form of in-combat HP/MP regen, etc.

*Partial and full set bonuses that provide bonuses that could provide other tactical effects (a class trait that reduces cooldown on one or more abilities, weapon skills that cost less TP, magic abilities cost less MP, additional effects to existing abilities, makes your 1 gil worth as much as Gath's 1 gil, etc.)

I dunno... just throwing it out there.

[Jennestia]

A lot of people need to realize the only purpose to do content should not be for gear. It's nice to get loot out of it yes but if that's the only thing that gets you to do content then you will never be happy in an MMO unless they hand you the best gear for no work at all.

Even the materia set up doesn't hand you the best gear that still takes work. You generally should take on content for the fun and challenge of it, shouldn't that also be an incentive to do content? Or am I mistaking in that people who complain about easy content are just complaining for the sake of complaining?