[Dev1068] Materia Exploit?!?!

[Judge_Xero]

What happens to a piece of gear that has a piece of "Stat Modifiying" materia on it, when it is available to be transformed into materia itself? I was wondering if someone could clarify this, because here is what I see happening:

Regular Weapon -> Turns into Materia -> Materia Equipped to Weapon -> New Weapon Turns into Materia -> Materia Equipped to Weapon etc. End Result ='s 999 attack, 999 accuracy

What will happen to a Materia Infused Weapon, when it itself turns into Materia? Will the increase in stats be added to the new materia? or will it nulify the equipped materia for an increased chance at HQ materia?

[Sephr]

What happens to a piece of gear that has a piece of "Stat Modifiying" materia on it, when it is available to be transformed into materia itself? I was wondering if someone could clarify this, because here is what I see happening:

Regular Weapon -> Turns into Materia -> Materia Equipped to Weapon -> New Weapon Turns into Materia -> Materia Equipped to Weapon etc. End Result ='s 999 attack, 999 accuracy

What will happen to a Materia Infused Weapon, when it itself turns into Materia? Will the increase in stats be added to the new materia? or will it nulify the equipped materia for an increased chance at HQ materia?

Pretty ridiculous to think you've found an exploit when it's just a concept at this point. Besides that, the obvious thing to do would be to make it so that only the base weapon stats affect materia creation.

[Jynx]

Even if there is some sort of "History" with the materia fusion process, it will obviously cap out at a certain point and have limitations to what type of materia can be used on certain peices of gear.

Lets say we can progresivly creat a stronger and stronger attack materia...We could just as easilly speculate that upping the stats on said materia may increase the "Level requirements" to use that materia. Lets say there are 5 tiers of materia.

Minor
Lesser
Normal
Strong
Radiant

Lets say Minor gives you... +5-10 attack when your materia goes beyond that cap it become a lesser materia of strength 10-20 attack. Minor Materia can be used in any weapon lvl 1~+, lesser materia can be used in any weapon lvl 10~+ and in such varying tiers until you hit Radiant Materia of Strength equipable only on Rank 50 items.

Thats one way to assume how the stats will be controled on a growth scale, obviously a oversimplified vision but it's the mechanics of how it "Could" work. For all we know Materia may have no lvl restriction and just have max caps on what the stats can go up too. I highly doubt we will see legacy materia with +999Str and +999 acc.

[Vahzl]

Pretty ridiculous to think you've found an exploit when it's just a concept at this point.

My thoughts exactly. It almost seems like this guy just woke up in the middle of the night and went "..d09dm09d OMFG EXPLOIT DETECTED".

+1 for you good sir.

[Radaghast]

It'd just use the original items base stats...

Armchair dev'in

[Felis]

Maybe you need to clear the gear from all materia first.

[Acerimmer]

Make sure once people master their "All" Materia, they can't just sell it off for a quick 1.4mil please..

[Cutriss]

Yes, it's pretty much a guarantee that you won't be able to send your gear through the wash multiple times. The materia enhancements will be stored separately from the gear and if you convert the gear, you're just going to waste the original materia.

[Sephr]

Make sure once people master their "All" Materia, they can't just sell it off for a quick 1.4mil please..

Wat. It's not FFVII materia, it's just socketed items to add to gear to make it more unique. You can sell materia once it's made.

[Anty]

reading all these materia threads... it sounds to me that most of you guys have the materia blueprint already and you are discussing about everything so detailed... and now even exploit lmao...
Since when did our posts here change any dev. decision BEFORE things got live? ... perhaps slightly changes after, if a whine-fest starts... but... not before. We can discuss it after it got on the many "testservers".