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

[Zeddy]

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.

And one more thing Camate, might you be able to help address this other materia related issue I've never understood?

Why does the game allow you to meld materia when a 0 stat increase will result from the meld?

Would SE consider changing this so that when attempting to meld materia to equipment, if no stat bonus would result from the meld, the materia will NOT be allowed to be melded to the piece of equipment?

[Teykos]

And one more thing Camate, might you be able to help address this other materia related issue I've never understood?

Why does the game allow you to meld materia when a 0 stat increase will result from the meld?

Would SE consider changing this so that when attempting to meld materia to equipment, if no stat bonus would result from the meld, the materia will NOT be allowed to be melded to the piece of equipment?

Materia increases the speed an item spiritbinds.

People will spiritbind cheap materia that don't offer a stat increase specifically for this purpose because the tier of materia doesn't matter.

[Chiapet]

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.

How about we compromise? Display that info on the Libra

[Shinalia]

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 display it in the Lodestone and/or Lodestone app. Then it would still be available, if only sorta convenient, at least.

[Phaylis]

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.

How about not on the gear, but in the meld window when the gear is selected. This way it is not superfluous.

[Aexrael]

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.

Redesign the Meld menu, it needs an overhaul in any event, and add the information there when clicking on any given item that can be melded.

[Alise]

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.

Easily way you can do is to put up those information in Erozea Libra instead.

[Vespar]

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.

It is already confusing for those who WANT to apply materia's

[Valarian]

This information would be relevant in the Materia Melding window, or in some portion of that interface. For example, display the additional capacity for the materia type currently hovered. That's a fairly small amount of data to display at once, and very pertinent to the person performing the activity in question at the time.

Meld->Select item to meld to->While choosing materia to meld additional capacity is shown for the attribute the currently highlighted materia enhances.

[whiskeybravo]

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I think that would still be along the lines of what the devs said. There are too many stats to display at once, unless it was filtered to only show DoW, DoM, DoH, DoL for that particular piece. Right now, you have a chance to review before any meld takes place so there's no excuse not too. Sure, I've accidentally melded +0 and I've even accidentally melded DPS materia on DoH pants (Doh!), but that was because I wasn't paying attention not anything the system did or didn't display.