Can Someone Knowledgable or a Dev Please Address This Materia Question/Concern?

[Resheph]

How about adding NPCs in each town? This npc would allow you to select an item in your inventory and then they will display the "hidden potential" of each item.

Or just show what the cap is when you are slotting materia, instead of only showing what you will get.

Currently, When you add materia it looks like this:
"STR +4" <- I can only see that I will get a bonus of +4 STR from the materia I'm attempting to slot.

I think it should look more like this:
"Str: +4/4 Max Cap: 5" <- I can see that this item will accept the +4 STR from the materia and a total of 5 STR.
"Str: +1/4 Max Cap: 5" <- I can see that this item will accept +1 STR from the +4 STR materia and a total of 5 STR.
"Str: +0/4 Max Cap: 5" <- I can see that this item will accept no more STR bonuses.

OR, add in an extra option to the list of actions "View Materia Caps", where it displays "Discard, Equip, Meld, Repair, etc."

[Zeddy]

OR, add in an extra option to the list of actions "View Materia Caps", where it displays "Discard, Equip, Meld, Repair, etc."

I like this idea! Just add a "View Materia Caps" or something along those lines option.

Surely that would appeal to people interested in melding materia without being burdensome to those uninterested. This would address SE's logic that displaying materia caps by default would present superfluous information to people who may be uninterested in knowing the materia caps.

[Sovereign]

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

Okay, then add a 'Simple' / 'Advanced' tooltip toggle like what many other games do. It would default to 'Simple' and players who want to see the information can just switch the setting to 'Advanced'. Problem solved.

[HitsuMaruku]

As a suggestion for a solution, I think this might be a nice addition to the great library, perhaps in a section marked specifically for in-game mechanics information. These books could detail the capabilities of each item while still tying into lore, such as cloth materials can withstand more magic-based energies from materia while darksteel can withstand more physical-based energies, with exact numbers in the finer details of the pages.

[Khazar]

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

Then add this to the official database so we can check it in a place.

[Umero]

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

I care less about this than the ilvl gear check that affects great melded gear that are below ilvl but treated unfairly because of the ilvl is lower.

[Teykos]

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

If that's the case, could an ability be developed that displays this information on a separate window when the ability is used on an item, so that those who do want that information can get it? That way the only time the requests would be made for the information would be when people actually want it.

Call it Libra Materia or something...

[Zfz]

Greetings,

We realize that displaying the stat caps for materia on all equipment would be convenient; however, this would significantly increase the amount of information displayed for each item, and if you are a player that doesn’t have any interest in melding materia this information will be superfluous and may cause confusion. Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

Please make it an option then. Just because some players don't care about it doesn't make it useless. It is crucial in deciding what materia to buy and in planning our gear.

Please show us how I (with no crafting classes leveled up) would plan how to meld my crafted gear. Without the stat caps it is impossible to plan. It's beyond confusion for us, it is uncertainty.

Please realize this is worse than having extra information.

So please make it an option. Make the information available to us.

[OxTitan]

Strength, Dex, Vitality (this is usually higher than the rest), Mind, and Int all have the same stat cap. Usually, these stats are already capped on HQ version of gear ( I assume all of them because I haven't seen a HQ version that wasn't already capped with these stats).

Det and Piety cap at the same stat. These stats cap at a lower value than the stats mentioned above.


Accuracy, Critical Hit, Skill Speed, Spell Speed, and Parry all have the same stat cap. Most of the HQ gear will have one of these stats already at cap. I've only seen a few gear where the HQ version wasn't fully capped on one of these stats. These are the stats you normally by materia for.

How about making them public on the Libra Eorzea app instead? A table we can download or browse and look this up ourselves. Doesn't affect the game at all that way.

What if the source of the data on the Libra was also gathered from the same source for the game data?

[Zeddy]

Due to this we do not have any plans of adding this information.

Thank you Camate for the reply.

I'm having trouble understanding why a feature (materia melding) would be created into the game, and when the game community asks for more information regarding this feature of the game we are met with a "we do not have any plans of adding this information" response. All we are asking is that the stat caps for equipment be displayed somewhere. The caps exist, it would just be helpful to know them BEFORE attempting to meld materia to a piece of equipment. Surely the great minds over at SE can think up a good place to put this information, but dont keep us in the dark. Knowing materia melding caps can help players set specific equipment goals.

Can SE reconsider providing IN-GAME information regarding equipment stat caps?