Quote Originally Posted by Wynn View Post
It's not going to be. It will be quested easily and, unlike XI, you can level to 50 in a few days here. This will completely marginalize materia and gear as it will no longer be needed. At least, for a few months that is. Just sayin....
One can only hope, in turn making Yoshida wonder what he was thinking and then completely scrapping the materia system .. or maybe not

I would like to think the new instances are somehow linked to the AF gear, hopefully multiple quests to return to both dungeons to get all gear pieces.

If the gear is soloable them I will be disappointed.