Let us add materia sockets to items?

[NintenPyjak64]

If this idea was percentage based, then why not just do forbidden melding anyways? You don't lose the item from failing to meld like in 1.xx, this would just be an extra unnecessary step

Unless you're referring to gear that has no innate Materia slots, but armor and weapons that don't have it are usually not worth using (unless it's the very low level gear that's still too low for Tier 1 materia