Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
Agreed on the point of crafted gear being stepping stones to or side-grade of end-game gear. Before you get that ultra cool awesome end-game dungeon/NM gear you need to wear something, make that crafted gear. Then as you said, also make it relevant to specific builds.
Yea, I think if end game/dungeon gear had super stats but took a lot of effort (see months) and fighting (see HNM) to get... then you'd still need the crafted materia stuff, and use it for a long time