Can we get a materia required option for party finder?

[Shialan]

Can you quantify this "extra effort"?

[DinahDemiurge]

*inserts a lvl1 materia to bypass the requirement* Yeah I think this is going to go well

obviously level appropriate.

[DinahDemiurge]

Never would've thought wanting people to have materia on their gear would be considered controversial, but this is the official forums after all...

seriously there are slots for a reason

[Ranaku]

Or how about you go the extra mile and check actually the gear and stuff of the fellas you raid with and if they don't meet what was expected then...uh...kick them?

Better than just pumping the group finder up with thousands of options and exceptions.

[RitsukoSonoda]

When we get materia that are actually interesting and not just +X amount of substat I might be tempted to bother with it on gear that will be replaced the near future...

[Reimmi]

Why would I waste materia on gear I'll be replacing every 10 levels during leveling?

They mean party finder not duty finder, which usually means for level capped content

[Aurikai]

If your IL is under the IL sync for the instance, then materia does give a perk and is useful.
If you are over the IL sync, then you are synced down to that IL and any materia you have is not counted and provides no benefits.
That said, most all instanced fight mechanics can be cleared as long as the player's gear is near the recommended IL, not including materia





Once you out level melded gear, you can generally retrieve the materia at a 100% success rate, which you can then reuse in new gear and/or save for other jobs, or sell/trade.
If you manage your materia well, you can reuse them almost indefinitely.
Also, do not forget to extract newly created materia from your fully soul bonded gear, so you begin to generate new materia to use.

That's BS, I've never seen 100% success rate on retrieving materia, someone figured the % on reddit, but is way lower than 100%. Also you have to pay to get higher level materia melded in the 1st place unless your DoH is high enough, which is upwards of 1700p a piece. Most people aren't going to level DoH since they're incredibly boring.

[Doozer]

That's BS, I've never seen 100% success rate on retrieving materia, someone figured the % on reddit, but is way lower than 100%. Also you have to pay to get higher level materia melded in the 1st place unless your DoH is high enough, which is upwards of 1700p a piece. Most people aren't going to level DoH since they're incredibly boring.

Materia that isn't current content materia (i.e. 80 and below) has a 100% success rate of retrieval. Which is what you'll be using until 90, no?

[Aurikai]

Materia that isn't current content materia (i.e. 80 and below) has a 100% success rate of retrieval. Which is what you'll be using until 90, no?

If that's the case I stand corrected, thanks, the other point still stands though, its expensive to affix materia and to buy it during leveling, but I guess apparently this person meant "party finder" and not "duty finder", though I'm not sure why anyone doing high level content would not be affixed, or even why it matters since you could simply remove them from the group.

[PharisHanasaki]

Why would I waste materia on gear I'll be replacing every 10 levels during leveling?

I still add materia, just not the expensive kind. You can buy older materia for less than 1000 ea, and you can retrieve it without a loss.