The dye and materia System as well as 2 piece armor...

[Ryios]

My one major complaint about this game so far is with the dye and materia system. What exactly is the point of the Dye and Materia System?

Dye- It allows you to change the color of your gear
Materia- You can upgrade your gear's stats.

Ok that's great, but there is one Major problem....

At level 50 I have yet to find a piece of gear that will let me dye it. Also non of the Gear that drops in AK, Darklight, or AF2 has a materia socket.....

So is the dye system just something to please people pre level 50? And materia is just to make you think you'll be able to buff your gear at 50? Because at level 50 both the Dye System and Materia System are Non-Features.

What's the point in tier IV materia if you can't put it in anything you'll be wearing, why would their be a market for tier IV materia.

lvl 1-49 is so easy there is zero point to investing in tier IV materia or materia in general.

To me it feels like you could take both features out of the game and only level 1-49's would care...

We need gear with materia sockets. And we want to be able to DYE DL/AF2/AK gear.

-Finally
2 Piece tank sets, like the DL tank set where the chest and helm is one piece and you can't hide the helmet... Whoever thought this up should be fired... I want to have head/chest/hands/legs/feet gear like every other class...

--More on materia
Also none of the gear at Level 50 dropped from AK can be converted to materia. We have to farm the living crap out of AK as the only viable source of Myth Tomes pre binding coil, and all that gear is just getting wasted. Once everyone has it, it just rots in a chest. We can't sell it, we can't convert it, it's useless. So we sit there spirit bonding AK Gear (because it's good gear pre Darklight) and then can't convert it. If we could convert it we would do that, then roll on the new piece.... But nope...

The one positive side I can think of for this is that I buy level 49 crafted gear because I can convert that and I spirit bond bracers/neck/rings to make materia to make ends meet (coupled with occasional harvesting) so I find myself able to stay in the 150k+ gil range despite end game grinding for Darklight, but it sure would be nice if I could convert the gear that keeps dropping that no one needs/wants anymore.

Personally, to me, level 50 feels incomplete. Like most of the focus was on level 1-45, then a quick HM Primal set was made and one decent dungeon. I understand more content is coming in 2.1 but a hot patch to make AK gear convertible and adding Dye slots where possible sure would be appreciated.