Materia for Gatherers and Crafters

[Rukkirii]

Attention Gatherers and Crafters!

Are you having trouble finding equipment that will allow you to meld materia onto it?

When you do find that piece of equipment that can be melded, is the materia selection too limited?

Well I have good news! The development team is looking into increasing the amount of Gatherer and Crafter equipment that can be melded along with adding different materia types for your gathering and crafting needs as well.

[Sigmakan]

Will this be coupled with gathering stats having a bigger impact?

[Hiruke]

That is good news. I've been wondering about this. It would be really nice to be able to meld crafting stats onto something other than the tool. Or maybe if that's still the case after this, some of the new materia types are pretty awesome (such as increasing HQ rate while gathering).

[Xeonerable]

Please do the same for being able to put crafting materia onto clothes

[Kyra]

There is no point with this if your going to limit gatherers to only be able to gather 1 raw mat at a time on the end game mats (e.g - cobalt ore). certain stats are almost pointless.

[waldo]

There is no point with this if your going to limit gatherers to only be able to gather 1 raw mat at a time on the end game mats (e.g - cobalt ore). certain stats are almost pointless.

There's always that one dude you can't please.

[Antanias]

There is no point with this if your going to limit gatherers to only be able to gather 1 raw mat at a time on the end game mats (e.g - cobalt ore). certain stats are almost pointless.

That was done to keep high-level items from flooding the markets. Gatherer's can't make as much money if everyone can go out and get lots of those very items at the same time

[HiirNoivl]

There's always that one dude you can't please.

Okay so riddle me this.

What's the point of all this lovely materia if it doesn't effect the final result.

Fix stats, or you can take your materia and...

[Biggs]

Good news to be sure but, I could quit my job and retire if only I could get 5$ for every time the phrase "the development team is looking into" was used. A galka can dream.

[Venat]

Some new materia... like what...? Heres few ideas.

Legs... Chance to get rare items... + 0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5% Legs... (7.5%) if 5x meld on lv41+ gear.
Hands... Chance toget HQ mats 0.3%/0.8%/2%/3% (15%) is 5x
Feet... Chance of earning double the amount of crystals... 3%/4%/5%/7%/10% (50%) x5 meld
Hat... Increases Secondary Tools lessens the misses... 3%/4%/5%/8% (40%)
Body... Vit+control/Str+control etc.