Materia: the new Armory System

[Jinko]

Jinko, I'm going to stop you right there. I don't see any reason whotsoever why Yoshida and the dev team cannot make U/U gear Meldable. If melding is done in a like fashion as repairs, other players could meld materia from your inventory that you choose onto an item that you've chosen, reap a reward, and no change of hands would need to be made. All SE would have to do is put certain restrictions on these U/U gears. For ex: Green Gear can be melded up to 4x Maximum, Blue Gear up to 3x Maximum, Future Orange Gear up to 2x Maximum, Future Purple Gear only 1x Maximum - given that the base stats on these gears are equivalent to single/multi melded gear.

This generates an incentive for these gears, as well as replay value since people will undoubtedly break many of these in the process of melding (except Purple which should be so hard to obtain that breaking it on single meld would be ludicrous). I don't understand why this would be so hard to implement. Sure it would require looking over each U/U piece o gear individual, but this isn't hard at all considering there aren't thaaaat many.

Well he said they are looking into a interface so players can meld their items through the bazaar.

This doesn't change the fact whether he will allow U/U gear to be meld-able and of course you could only have 1 materia without the risk of losing the item. (I doubt many would be happy losing their Ifrit and Mog weapons through some random stranger failing a meld)#

That being said I will never like the materia system as it is, as I said it would have been better as a socketing system similar to FFVII or something like WoW's gemming.

I posted this in another thread instead of going materia route with U/U gear they should use raw mats from dungeons where equipment dropped from to upgrade it.



One more example to show an upgrade. Blade dancer boots upgrade from Lv. 3 to 4 you would need 5 Batraal Skins (think i spelled that right) and 1 Batraal horn and 6 batraal wings to make the upgrade.

Nice idea Firon, that would be the best solution I have seen so far.
Would the process be through an NPC with 100% success or through crafters with a chance of failure ?

Personally I would prefer the former.