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

[WHS]

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.

[Raenryong]

Why not only add the extra information when in the melding menu? If you're in there, you are interested in that anyway...

[LordSaviour]

If you notice it says, Stat increase of +0, Don't Meld the materia. Pretty simple really. If you are so inclined, make a thread on forum of your findings.

It will be beneficial to the community, and if they Devs see the community taking time to formulate said list, they may be inclined to add it to the Libra.

[Zeddy]

Materia increases the speed an item spiritbinds.

Where does the game provide this information? Thanks for sharing I didn't know that?

[Teykos]

Where does the game provide this information? Thanks for sharing I didn't know that?

It doesn't. People had to figure it out on their own. Raldo put up a post of his test here. The formula he derived from it is a couple posts down from that one and is [Base] / (1 + .25 * [# of materia (+1 if HQ)])

[Zeddy]

It doesn't. People had to figure it out on their own. Raldo put up a post of his test here. The formula he derived from it is a couple posts down from that one and is [Base] / (1 + .25 * [# of materia (+1 if HQ)])

I was hoping that I just didnt see the information...but this is really troublesome. This gaming community shouldn't have to go through the work of cracking the code to gain a basic understanding of this pretty basic aspect of the game (put materia into materia slot or force meld materia onto an item). We shouldn't have to crunch a bunch of numbers or play with math formulas to figure out what materia to purchase for our gear.

I really hope SE addresses this.

[Zeddy]

If you notice it says, Stat increase of +0, Don't Meld the materia. Pretty simple really.

Please re-read my posts. The issue I have been describing is the inconvenience of not knowing equipment stat cap prior to attempting a meld.

The game should provided information regarding an item's stat caps, in some manner, prior to actually attempting to meld materia to the equipment.

[Raldo]

As iLv70 items are usually what people care about for stat caps, here you go:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1707712

[Zeddy]

As iLv70 items are usually what people care about for stat caps, here you go:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1707712

Firstly, thank you for your post! That was very helpful and nice of you to share your findings with everyone.

That said, IMPO you shouldn't have to do what you did. We shouldn't have to hop on forums to obtain this sort of basic information regarding equipment. Strategies, bugs, opinions, etc. Those are the sort of things I'd expect to use the forums for. Not basic information like equipment stat caps.

Why these caps are kept secret up until the attempt to meld materia to an item makes zero sense to me and I hope SE changes this in the near future.

[NefarioCall]

BULL.
This needs to be fixed.
It's terrible flaw in the UI and a constant frustration.
Please put it SOMEWHERE, or is this more PS3 limitations?