Can we get a materia required option for party finder?

[PharisHanasaki]

Perhaps if materia would give players reason to actually use them I would definitely seek to apply it to my gear. Maybe the materia that we have equipped to our gear would grow stronger and add even more bonuses and buffs? It would give players reason to attach materia. Perhaps materia could give a visual change to your gear and weapons?

So, the insane stat increase you get from it isn't reason enough? You want it to shine and sparkle?

[ChameleonMS]

So, the insane stat increase you get from it isn't reason enough? You want it to shine and sparkle?

Of course is should shine and sparkle. Shine and sparkle is the true end game; it's other name is Glamour.

[HyoMinPark]

So, the insane stat increase you get from it isn't reason enough? You want it to shine and sparkle?

Except the “insane stat increase” is only a couple percent in actuality. Being fully melded doesn’t matter unless you’re doing Savage or Ultimate. Not even current Extremes really need it. Materia has its importance, but this post is quite disingenuous.

[DinahDemiurge]

Except the “insane stat increase” is only a couple percent in actuality. Being fully melded doesn’t matter unless you’re doing Savage or Ultimate. Not even current Extremes really need it. Materia has its importance, but this post is quite disingenuous.

Tell me you've never wiped at 0.1% without telling me you've never wiped at 0.1%

[HyoMinPark]

Tell me you've never wiped at 0.1% without telling me you've never wiped at 0.1%

I have. Plenty of times due to deaths or other dumb mistakes. Doesn’t change that the post I answered is disingenuous.

Aside from the fact that, if you are wiping to 0.1% enrage, your problem is not materia. That is either:
1. Too many deaths (the most likely cause)
2. DPS lacking damage due to rotational problems
3. Healers not contributing to damage (actually the reason for a group I was in hitting enrage in TEA)
4. Tanks not contributing to damage enough

It’s not a materia issue. Especially for any of the content we have now. The only time it makes or breaks is Week 1 Savage in the third and fourth fights, and in Ultimates (where not having VIT melds would actually kill you, back when those were a thing).

Your implication that people who meld care about performance is skewed. You can have fully melded individuals who have no idea how to play their job/role. The two don’t go hand in hand. So I don’t really think forcing the requirement would help. Aside from the fact that it would be easily bypassed.

It's not a lot of free damage but it's free damage all the same, so I will always promote materia use. If materia was hard to come by it'd be one thing, but it is not. The game practically throws materia at people.

Yes. But again. Doesn’t change that the post is disingenuous. It’s fine to recognize the gains of materia. But don’t over-inflate it. That’s just the spread of misinformation.

“Insane stat gain” implies that materia adds a hugely significant amount of gained stats. I never said you didn’t get gains from it—but the implication is not “insane”, per that individual. Roughly 5% to 7% the last time I looked at estimates, which was some time back in Eden’s Verse.

[Vahlnir]

Except the “insane stat increase” is only a couple percent in actuality. Being fully melded doesn’t matter unless you’re doing Savage or Ultimate. Not even current Extremes really need it. Materia has its importance, but this post is quite disingenuous.

It's not a lot of free damage but it's free damage all the same, so I will always promote materia use. If materia was hard to come by it'd be one thing, but it is not. The game practically throws materia at people.