Obviously Yoshi has played Diablo and Wow. All he has to do is copy that gem system. Gear has a set number of sockets crafted and raid gear. Anyone can socket the gems/materia into your own gear. None of this running around trying to find a max level crafter of various crafts just to put materia in your gear. The idea of requiring a crafter to socket gear is too overly complex. Makes it so new players can't have any materia in their gear because obviously they won't have any crafts leveled and when starting out its unlikly that you will know someone to do it. I remember when leveling my first few jobs to 50 i didn't have any materia in gear and people wanted 100-200k to do it, people just starting out don't have that kind of money