Former WoW player: Suggested changes to FFXIV Raiding end-game

[Shurrikhan]

A negligible fee

True. But I have to wonder why the materia system was designed as such a banal chore, if not merely to be a gil-sink that further incentivizes omni-crafting.

You (1) make sure to right click - left click (Extract Materia) whenever a gear hits 100% spiritbind and (2) whenever you get a new piece of gear for a given slot, you end up destroying an average of 60% of your old gear's materia in trying to retrieve it, buy replacements with clusters, pay the fee if not an omni-crafter, get your minimal but obligatory stat bonus and... that's... fun?

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Not the most engaging thing in the world, I can't really argue that. I wouldn't call it a chore though. It's just....kinda there, merely existing.

Fair enough. I guess, I just expect more from something added than for it merely to exist. If it has virtually no impact (i.e., no engaging output), and it doesn't add anything interesting to processes of acquisition (i.e., nor engaging input)... why's it there?

That's same kind of shit people complain about from this or that lackluster feature in WoW. If it does little to nothing more than just exist... why should it at all?

That's not to say I want to get rid of the layer deterministic stats that materia, as a general concept, could provide, just that I'd prefer it be more about the choice and less centered around the mere bloat of this using this menu for to cache this or that otherwise useless item to get this other (unless an a crafter) not-in-itself-usable item to then access another menu to another to another to finally get a pittance of stat via this or that grade of this or that materia, most of which you'll never use unless you've maxed out the latest gear piece's potential for Critical Hit.