Materia: the new Armory System

[Coglin]

What's really unfortunate is that not many people seem to care about this issue. A lot of the forum-goers seem content complaining about the immediate (OMG WHY ISN'T PATCH 1.21 HERE YET) instead of discussing huge, long term problems that could really hinder the game. If people actually replied and discussed this to the point where it became a large enough thread to warrant attention, the devs could reanalyze the Materia system sooner, which would give them the most time to correct it. Otherwise, it'll become so integrated into the game that they won't modify/remove it, so the problems will persist.

I have to disagree based on the fact that there have ben about 8 threads of this discussion in the past 2 weeks.

Although, I have to admit, there havebeen twice as many to discuss (OMG WHY ISN'T PATCH 1.21 HERE YET) .......

Personally, I like the materia system as it "in general". For the most part, I feel the risk vs. reward is set about right with the low percentage of multiple melds set at what it is. I tend to over all, disagree with most of the debate against it.

Only imbalance I see with it at all, is in comparison to alot of the U/U gear, but I believe in the near future as we have more end game added, (I am hoping anyway) that SE and the gang will make the new U/U raid drops in a manner that sets a gap in there value from melded gear.