Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
Materia does help. However, not intelligence materia. Critical hit materia, direct hit materia, determination materia, piety materia; these materia do help. Vitality materia helps in cutting edge / ultimate level content. Melding main stats that are not associated with your role, however, will not help you out even the slightest.
To a point this is right, Say a Monk trying to use a Mind Materia, that would not work even with its healing skill. But in terms of intelligence on a healer it does help slightly with attack magic. I'm not saying it will be as high as a Dark Mage or anything but it would give a slight boost for those looking to use attacks and not juts healing, plus if its kept only on rings or something its not really impacting the over all role stat.
Its the same with my style, i get ripped on all the time but my plays speak for themselves and i actually get thanked for my style. I don't expect to be top melee should i choose to go that route but having the slight boost from materia allows me to help out should the team need it. As a mage you can't always pull off your magic since most runs you have to dodge tons of stuff, with the slight boost i have in melee damage it allows me to keep decent damage going een if i have to avoid magic for a few seconds.

Materia is extremely useful and should really be a big experimentation for people, you'd be surprised what you can turn your avatar into.