Expand the Materia System! (ideas welcome)

[Jinko]

I don't like the idea of hidden bonuses, even the JP players complained about the hidden bonuses on AF gear.

Why would you use a materia that has hidden bonuses - if you don't know the results then why would you use it ?

I would like to see the materia system streamlined before expanding it.

• Make materia 1 type per Tier (remove the tier's within tier's) -- possibly make HQ materia ?
• Remove multi-melding
• Allow U/U gear to be melded
• Allow U/U to be converted to rare materia
• Add materia fusion (alchemy??) combine 2 or more materia into one.
• Allow any craft to meld materia as long as they meet the item level requirements (As asked in the players poll 3)

I would rather materia be based on socketing than luck based multi-melding, something like FF7 where armour and weapons have a set amount of sockets.

Something like all crafted items are made with one socket and additional sockets can be added after the item is completed.

Maybe +1 items have 2 sockets and NQ have 1 socket ?

[syntaxlies]

I don't like the idea of hidden bonuses, even the JP players complained about the hidden bonuses on AF gear.

Why would you use a materia that has hidden bonuses - if you don't know the results then why would you use it ?

I would like to see the materia system streamlined before expanding it.

• Make materia 1 type per Tier (remove the tier's within tier's) -- possibly make HQ materia ?
• Remove multi-melding
• Allow U/U gear to be melded
• Allow U/U to be converted to rare materia
• Add materia fusion (alchemy??) combine 2 or more materia into one.
• Allow any craft to meld materia as long as they meet the item level requirements (As asked in the players poll 3)

I would rather materia be based on socketing than luck based multi-melding, something like FF7 where armour and weapons have a set amount of sockets.

Something like all crafted items are made with one socket and additional sockets can be added after the item is completed.

Maybe +1 items have 2 sockets and NQ have 1 socket ?

i dont like hidden bonus's either, hidden stat caps were bad enough. Stats and effects shouldn't be something the players have to test to figure out.

[carlosx]

materia sistem was made improve the use and need of high lv cratf skills improving game ecconomy and also was a nice way to spend some time. but a full revamp on the sistem is need.... made armor have the materia slots also materia ben able to exp and grown like ff7 just like sb bar on a item with materia give you the menu option ("evolution" tentative) and give a risk factor to gain lvup or broke on the prosses like 20% lvup from lv4 to 5 if fail materia broke also give a lower suses rate by lvl remember materia extracted from a gear is lost

soo this prevent people trying evolve materia on lower lv class gear and if materia fail it broke but you still kepp the gear

[Viritess]

Well the Idea of Using materia in a consumable would hopefully accelerate the aim of having turnover of Crafted items. Since with every Gulp what was once a weapon or armor goes poof. With the added benifit of some Potion customization, plus failure risk.

Materia out of circulation from:
Failed Potion Enchancement - Materia Gone
Potion Use - Materia Gone
Failed Meldingand attachment - Materia Gone

The problem with Having materia as an Armor/weapon only item is that most people aren't going to take the high risk of losing the materia and item on a fail for high benefits. A glance at the attached items in Uldah markets gives a snapshot. almost all have 1 materia attached.

If you place materia "into" a potion you can actually even up the sucsess rate because once it is in a potion, you KNOW at some point someone will sip it, and materia gone! Since its a consumable it won't be re-sold forever.

More stable materia use that then leaves the system making room for more materia to be made. so more potions can be sipped, etc will add extra value to potion crafters but all other crafts aswell.

Edit: Also may add some Value to materia itself besides the top level versions. Which measn even new players and vets can perhaps make some change, since at 18 you could convert and start selling some Materia.