Materia: the new Armory System

[Coglin]

We did try to discuss the problems with multi-melding (specifically that it's a completely stupid system)

Thanks for your input honestly, I really don't have a specific ideal fix.

You guys post this as if its the general populations views as well. I don't believe most players feel mulit-melds is a problem in the least bit. If most people do not believe it is broken, then there is no ideal fix, or any fix for that matter.

[Sol_Aureus]

You guys post this as if its the general populations views as well. I don't believe most players feel mulit-melds is a problem in the least bit. If most people do not believe it is broken, then there is no ideal fix, or any fix for that matter.

If that's the case, I'd honestly like to hear their input as to why they think the points I raised aren't going to be an issue and the Materia system is fine as-is. I've had my opinions changed before because of responses, and if people bring up valid points that I can't refute, then I'll probably concede my point.

But that hasn't happened yet. So until it does, I will continue trying to bring this to the attention of the developers.

[Brannigan]

You guys post this as if its the general populations views as well. I don't believe most players feel mulit-melds is a problem in the least bit. If most people do not believe it is broken, then there is no ideal fix, or any fix for that matter.

I don't know, I never really tried to imply that. The "we" in that is referring to the people in the thread I was talking about. If I felt like the general population recognized the problem I wouldn't bother replying because the forums would have already taken care of it. If I had to guess I'd say that people are either still in "wait and see" mode or they're happy that they have good gear right now and aren't really thinking about what future items are going to look like.

I think that AF/Aurum Vale/Cutter's Whatever gear is really going to be a tipping point. If everyone is still running around in their crafted generics with crazy materia deep into 1.21 then I think you'll see more people talking about it. Likewise, if AF is good enough that people don't even bother with materia anymore, then that will probably get people talking.

[Aviny]

I think that AF/Aurum Vale/Cutter's Whatever gear is really going to be a tipping point. If everyone is still running around in their crafted generics with crazy materia deep into 1.21 then I think you'll see more people talking about it. Likewise, if AF is good enough that people don't even bother with materia anymore, then that will probably get people talking.

I think that SE wont implement AF being better than normal slotted gear because it is all on chance, and they don't want people walking around with the same gear. They will have AF to be good enough to have as a secondary classes gear but our current slotted gear will be way better even if it looks cool.

There is no way SE will have AF ARC gloves implemented with 100+ Crit nor will they add a CON head piece with 50+ Healing Magic Potency. I guess some parts of the gear will be better because you can only slot so much into certain items...but it wont be good enough to surpass my current slotted gear nor others that have better stats than I do.

If SE would happen to add gear that will far surpass most of our current gear it would have to be really hard to get as it was in 11.