Matria is needed?

[wereotter]

You got Hunts, you got 80 Dungeons, you got Spiritbond for free Materia. Do your roulettes everyday and you easily got enough cash to fill everything in the armour. Roulettes pays roughly 80-100k gil a day and go Tank/Healer if you want it guaranteed.

There's 0 excuse to not have Tier 8 Materias these days, SE has made it so much easier to obtain the highest tier in this Xpac compared to 2.0/3.0 days. 80 hunts PS4 players can easily make it by being in the party, all you got to do is Strike once with an AOE regardless if you can see it or not you will still hit it.

You missed the point again, possibly because you're so intent on being right that you want to make any statement to feel like you are...

When you're on a console, the mark currently is dead BEFORE you arrive. Doesn't matter if you're in a party, you won't have the mark load before dying, therefore no hitting it, meaning no materia (and I noticed you didn't even recognize that a good chunk of the continent can't even participate because of time zone issues)

Spirit bonding is great... when it works. But also it's a gamble. I get more grade 7 gear from my spirit bonding than grade 8, and even then the grade 8 materia I get often isn't anything I want to use because the type of materia you get is random.

Most of us, also, have bigger goals for our gil than buying materia, if that's your next recommendation. If you're doing roulettes just to get gil to buy gil, that's where my argument that you're not doing content hard enough for it to matter comes into play.

Again, my point is that for the content that the OP wants to play, materia isn't needed. Yes, they should use it if they have it, but they're not massively inconveniencing anyone by missing it, except maybe you.

[iVolke]

You missed the point again, possibly because you're so intent on being right that you want to make any statement to feel like you are...

When you're on a console, the mark currently is dead BEFORE you arrive. Doesn't matter if you're in a party, you won't have the mark load before dying, therefore no hitting it, meaning no materia (and I noticed you didn't even recognize that a good chunk of the continent can't even participate because of time zone issues)

Lol you're so full of it. Hunts not loading was an issue for PS3. They load just fine for PS4.

Why do ffxiv players always try to find some excuse to not do the bare minimum? This game has been shoving materia down our throats since Stormblood.

[wereotter]

Lol you're so full of it. Hunts not loading was an issue for PS3. They load just fine for PS4.

Why do ffxiv players always try to find some excuse to not do the bare minimum? This game has been shoving materia down our throats since Stormblood.

Hunts on PS3 were not cross world. The congestion levels have gotten worse now that we have hunters from every data center converging into the zones. This is especially true now that new upgrade items have been added. I always participated before cross world, now it's barely even possible for me to do gathering in a zone while a hunt is going on, and I'm using the PS4 Pro even. Again... I'm not arguing against using materia, though. My point literally this entire time is that the boost is minimal, and using it is by no means mandatory for the level of content that the OP was stating they wanted to participate in.

If they have it, yes. Use it. But if they don't, they don't need to go out of their way to get it before participating in content.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Technically speaking, no you don't need it. However the game rains you with materias which basically saying: "Here's free upgrade for everybody!" so why not make a good use of it? It makes your lives and your group's lives easier in a long run. You don't even need to buy off from MBs because pretty sure you should have a plenty by now to attach. Except of course: overmelding, which is a moot at this point.

Why do ffxiv players always try to find some excuse to not do the bare minimum? This game has been shoving materia down our throats since Stormblood.

By the same logic, they don't even need the i510 gears too i495 is enough because that is the highest ilv requirement (Paradigm) for contents outside latest EX trial and higher end.