Currently, when i look into the marketboard and look at elemental materia, its cheap and nobody is buying. Right now i heard there are no real reasons to get elemental materia than to slot them into your gear for Normal Primal fights for resistance, and even then its not really necessary at all. Most mobs do normal physical damage and very few do magic damage worth a damn.

With vanity coming out, and a new "template" feature for crafting coming out. I wish Devs would find a way to make the materia more valuable on a aesthetics point of view if they are not planning on changing the mechanic of elemental weaknesses on mobs or bosses.

My Ideas to make it a more valuable item is basically this;

I wish they would add armor/weapon animations. Id love for little rocks to spin around my Titan drop like they do SMN Titan Pet, or fire on my ifrit drop. and wind on my garuda drop.

I wish that they would add flame, wind, water, earth, lightning animations for armor that has a certain percentage of elemental materia slotted into it.
IE: For the strength or size of the animation to grow as the percentage grows, such as filling a high ilevel chest with lightning materia IV and watch lightning or sparks fly from it.

Could this be a CPU/GPU nightmare in already laggy crowded zones? sure i can see that happening. but atm it does bring more eye pleasing content, gives crafters more fun to play with, gives some dynamics to equips, and improves the market portion of elemental materia floating around.

Thoughts? I think if more people chimed in with positive comments, devs would at least consider it for future patches/content. negative comments are welcomed .