Materia

[prymortal]

Dropped Materia
So my first idea is for materia that is dropped in a dungeon or by a primal/hnm etc. This materia would be a rare drop and exclusive (cannot be converted from spiritbonded gear) and the stats would be unique and slightly superior. Think this would give added value to content, as gear gets old, materia tends to stay useful. And as you can blow materia up, it gives reason to go back and do said content again to gather some more of that particular materia.

I like this idea but as for the attaching system i'd prefer something like Final Fantasy VII, each item has a limit of materia that can be attached, the higher the level of item the more materia you can attach.

[Felis]

Materia as a drop would be against the FF XIV materia lore (building up a memory with your gear then transform this memory in materia). But like the primal weapons SE can bring boss gear that can spiritbounding into special materia. Then everyone have the choose, keep the equip (like darklight body) or get the materia.

And materia earned from U/U equip should be U/U too. If someone want this special materia he should first fight for the gear and not just buy the materia.

[Destinova]

Op sounds like an awesome idea. Yoshi P should do this!!!

[Zantetsuken]

So I've had a couple of ideas about the materia system and want to see what you all think and if it will be at all possibly in ARR.

Dropped Materia
So my first idea is for materia that is dropped in a dungeon or by a primal/hnm etc. This materia would be a rare drop and exclusive (cannot be converted from spiritbonded gear) and the stats would be unique and slightly superior. Think this would give added value to content, as gear gets old, materia tends to stay useful. And as you can blow materia up, it gives reason to go back and do said content again to gather some more of that particular materia.

Combining lower tier materia
Second idea is to be able to craft several lower tier materia's to create a higher tiered version. So for example the recipe could be 3x t3 bloodthirst materia + x amount of crystals to create a t4 bloodthirst materia. Similar recipes could be used for t1's and t2's also. I don't know about most of you, but I used to npc most of my lower tiered materia or waste it just trying to go for a 5 meld for the achievement. This would give it some value at least. But I don't think the synth should be easy, maybe even have to hq for it to work.

Please share your thoughts and pick this apart if you wish

Other ideas are welcome

Both ideas get a /thumbsup from me~

[Shougun]

Materia as a drop would be against the FF XIV materia lore (building up a memory with your gear then transform this memory in materia). But like the primal weapons SE can bring boss gear that can spiritbounding into special materia. Then everyone have the choose, keep the equip (like darklight body) or get the materia.

And materia earned from U/U equip should be U/U too. If someone want this special materia he should first fight for the gear and not just buy the materia.

But why couldnt you obtain materia from races that made materia themselves? Or materia made from Erozea, FF is famous for the land having a spirit and will (hence memory).

Or perhaps a rare drop is a armor piece, and you have a chance that armor piece comes spirit bound - giving a 100% chance to form into a rare materia.

[Medura]

Ive seen quite a few threads just like this one, though that was before server shutdown, hasnt been as active since then :P point is though: it is many who support this idea, and its a big chance it might happen since it has come up so many times.

[Rukkirii]

In A Realm Reborn the materia system will be seeing a revamp and we're planning to announce some interesting details before the beginning of Beta Phase 3, so expect to learn more around then!

[Forgo]

In A Realm Reborn the materia system will be seeing a revamp and we're planning to announce some interesting details before the beginning of Beta Phase 3, so expect to learn more around then!

sweetness!

[Nayito]

In A Realm Reborn the materia system will be seeing a revamp and we're planning to announce some interesting details before the beginning of Beta Phase 3, so expect to learn more around then!

i think the OP got it on the nail here and they don't wanna spoil anything by saying "yes, this is something we've been working on"

[Skies]

i think the OP got it on the nail here and they don't wanna spoil anything by saying "yes, this is something we've been working on"

More like they wait to wait until we can actually try things out before exposing themselves to the incoming firestorm that will inevitably happen