Materia: the new Armory System

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What is 'best'?

The ideal fix:

All Blue rarity U/U items remain unmeldable but have multiple unique (non-materia) stats and special abilities. As the level cap increases, these items can be upgraded via quests to increase damage and stats. - These items would become the best unique ability items in the game and would be lore-focused- Ideal for specific/prestige character builds.

All Green rarity U/U items become rare U/U material drops**. - Crafters can then craft them into U/U Green rarity items - they would have one unique (non-materia) bonus and could be melded as normal but only to a cap of 2 materia. - These items would become the best customizable job gear in the game.- Ideal for party play/dungeons/boss fights

All crafted items can be melded with (up to) 5 materia like they are now - HQ items have a slight (~5%) success bonus for melding over NQ. - These items are the most customizable in the game and could potentially have the highest basic stat boosts - Ideal for soloing.

**IMPORTANT: To facilitate the melding and crafting of U/U items and gear. NPCs would be added to each DoH guild where a player can place an order (leve) to have crafters there make/meld it. This would be handled by crafters in the same way a local guildleve is. Upon success, the item is sent to the owner's mailbox.

EDIT: changed melding limit on NQ items to success boost for HQ.