Dropped Items and Materia

[Jinko]

If dropped gear is as powerful as, or better than that, then what is the point of the materia system? These two can never coexist in their current states. You can soften the effect of ridiculous forbidden stacking, allow differences in gear, with customizability, and retain a bit of crafter's relavance by letting a single meld on Rare/ex gear.

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Agree with this post 100%

Just make materia socketable and allow it to be used on all gear, crafters will still be fine as you need to convert gear to materia anyway.