Please Fix Materia.

[Jeeqbit]

The main issues are that they have to make it interesting without making it require a massive grind just to prepare for Savage. Preach just made a good video that sums up why gear has to be simple. He has kids and can't do WoW raiding anymore because he doesn't have that sort of time. Nevertheless, they could still make things a little more interesting, without going too far, and hopefully they will - they plan to address jobs and "skill expression" in 8.0 so we will see what they announce in April. It's literally just 1 month and then we should get at least a vague, vague idea of what they are doing.

The other issue is of course there being a wrong choice, and by wrong choice I mean melding Intelligence on a tank or Strength on a healer, which used to be possible!

Still doesn't solve the problem of "players will figure out the most min-max/optimal combos and insist on only using that"

I don't think that's really an issue. Because nobody really checks. Not really. I don't. I've melded entirely Skill Speed and then cleared a Savage tier in PF. Nobody cares as long as you can do mechanics and get the clear.

The issue is just most materia options in the past have been such junk as melding Piety on a Warrior, or Parry on a tank against magic bosses. Just poor implementation in the past, that's all.

[LanceSummers]

The main issues are that they have to make it interesting without making it require a massive grind just to prepare for Savage. Preach just made a good video that sums up why gear has to be simple. He has kids and can't do WoW raiding anymore because he doesn't have that sort of time. Nevertheless, they could still make things a little more interesting, without going too far, and hopefully they will - they plan to address jobs and "skill expression" in 8.0 so we will see what they announce in April. It's literally just 1 month and then we should get at least a vague, vague idea of what they are doing.

The other issue is of course there being a wrong choice, and by wrong choice I mean melding Intelligence on a tank or Strength on a healer, which used to be possible!
I don't think that's really an issue. Because nobody really checks. Not really. I don't. I've melded entirely Skill Speed and then cleared a Savage tier in PF. Nobody cares as long as you can do mechanics and get the clear.

The issue is just most materia options in the past have been such junk as melding Piety on a Warrior, or Parry on a tank against magic bosses. Just poor implementation in the past, that's all.

Maybe at this point it'd be best to remove materia altogether or completely unlink it from how your job performs in combat. Is the system really worth keeping?

[Jeeqbit]

Maybe at this point it'd be best to remove materia altogether or completely unlink it from how your job performs in combat. Is the system really worth keeping?

For the sake of Skill/Spell speed and that's really it, to be honest. People meld a different amount depending on ping or speed preference.

Someone suggested to Yoshi-P about the issue of having to reapply materia upon upgrading gear. I think that should be addressed for sure. We should just have materia slots under our gear slots, and apply the materia to our character rather than the gear itself.

Hopefully addressing materia in some way will be part of their Fan Fest announcements, but we will need to see. Hopefully just a month to get some idea of their plans.