Can we get a materia required option for party finder?

[Nezerius]

seems like a waste especially at the moment when im gonna over meld crafted gear in 2 weeks so better to save than to meld for two EX trials with Job balance all messed up.

How exactly is it a waste, when it's incredibly cheap to drop 17 grade VIII materia in your level 90 gear? That's still a total of 408 secondary stats. Besides, grade VIII materia has a 100% retrieval rate nowadays, up from pre-EW's 40%.

[Endariel]

I was thinking about how it will further incite more ridiculous requirements for leechers(like full bis gear for practice from the beginning) but heck yes.
It seems that people underestimate how big the difference between full meld and non melded gear is. Even grade 8 (which basically costs nothing) boosts it by quite a lot.
I would even get as far as to add food requirement, but this one is much more controversial I suppose

[Xrystofer]

Eliteism much?

What about asking people to put minimum effort is ''Eliteism'' in your opinion?

What he is saying is not unreasonable, maybe not for leveling. However, if you are at the endgame you should have melded gear.

[Slayer25c]

Never going to happen that just a slop that no one wants to start

[Joint]

Your post perfectly represents the kind of person that I do not want to do savages/extremes with in party finder. My only standard is that I play with people who try to not gimp themselves. By leaving slots empty (with applicable materia) and going into endgame, you show that you do not care for your own character or about your fellow players. The game THROWS materia at you in high level dungeons. You not taking the 5 seconds to affix them is a speaks volumes towards the way you think. This mindset brings down everyone else around you.

Difference is the you said nothing about Savage/Extreme.... I have materia in my gear... Your post perfectly represents the kind of person that I do not want to play with either.. you do NOT need melded gear for ANYTHING normal

Inspect the player joining your pf group and kick them if they don't meet your standards. no big deal...

it sounds like you need to stick with FC members or people you know. So tired of people complaining about other people... DONT PLAY WITH THEM THEN!!!

Use your blacklist and you'll never see them again ... like this Social menu > contacts >right click>blacklist. Not taking the 5 seconds to do that speaks volumes about the way YOU think. you have options.... use them

[Lunalepsy]

Would appreciate it, not because materia itself gives you a huge edge or anything but players that actually care about taking 5 seconds to affix some materia are more likely to take the fight seriously. Thanks.

Why would you want this?

[LittleImp]

Why would you want this?

It's probably been inspired by the massive wave of people entering EX's in unmelded AF gear, and then proceeding to get out-dpsed by both the tanks and healers while the party struggles to get passed EX1 orbs or otherwise hits enrage.

Personally I see absolutely nothing wrong with adding more options to control who is able to join your custom party in partyfinder.

[Warlyx]

It's probably been inspired by the massive wave of people entering EX's in unmelded AF gear, and then proceeding to get out-dpsed by both the tanks and healers while the party struggles to get passed EX1 orbs or otherwise hits enrage

materias wont help those players im afraid

[LittleImp]

materias wont help those players im afraid

That's kind of the point. The option doesn't exist to help those people, it exists to keep them out of my party until they learn more about the games most basic systems.

[technole]

I remember back in E2S I was subbing for a raid group during the first week of release so everyone was at min ilevel, when they needed their first clear. We made it to 1% enrage. I started to inspect some of them and they were not melded. I made the mention we should back out and get those done, doesn't need to be penta. Just put good stuff in those slots. No one's damage was behind the curve or anything for that matter. Came back a few pulls later we cleared during the enrage cast.

Basically give your team a chance. You also account for things that can go wrong as well. Like damage downs.

How exactly is it a waste, when it's incredibly cheap to drop 17 grade VIII materia in your level 90 gear? That's still a total of 408 secondary stats. Besides, grade VIII materia has a 100% retrieval rate nowadays, up from pre-EW's 40%.

Especially since VIII are given out like candy now.