Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
Can you honestly say this doesn't happen in MMOs without gear-swap? Like be real, can you say you've never, ever seen people expect you to have certain gear or even certain tiers of gear for x reason? i.e Gold gear in Tera?
I would rather be able to tell someone competence by looking at what materia they have inserted in their gear than the actual gear they are wearing.

In WoW I could tell a bad player from a good one regardless of the gear they wore because of the enchantments and gems they had in their gear, anyone can join a pug group and get lucky with a nice piece of gear (Ifrit anyone ?) but seeing what materia a person has in their gear shows you if they know their class IMO.

I like the idea behind materia but limiting it to white items makes it total BS imo, not that I ever want to see multi melded blues either.

As Noctis said before the idea of upgrading AF or U/U items is much more appealing.