Quote Originally Posted by Rydin View Post
What about materia that can only be melded to U/U gear... what about NMs dropping materia? Maybe some big bad fire NM drops materia that is made specifically for Ifrit Weapons... or Adamantoise drops a materia that is only for PLD/WAR AF body... Upgrading gear is a good way to keep older content relevant... materia could be the way they do that
Direct materia drops go 100% against the primary design purpose of the materia system- gear sink. Once people are more inclined to seek dropped materia, they are less inclined to spiritbond and assimilate gear.

Materia that can only be melded to U/U gear sounds like a decent loophole that could work, but it also sounds like it could dilute the materia pool further and creating a divide in the system.

The cleanest is a new system. I mean, who wouldn't like more new content instead of stretching of existing content?