Just removed materia from the game completly it is a big fat waste of space and just come out with gear that is worth fighting for and hard to obtain with big co-op endgame battles... tiamat faf nidd realy hardcore NMs and instances comparable to ffxi maybe without the 5 day respawn timers. hell my materia gear is better than my AF gear for the most part just not as sexy "looking" materia was a nice thought but with rare ex blue ex green ex items not meldable the materia either has to go or everything needs to be meldable.