Quote Originally Posted by weeble View Post
i've said it earlier, that chances are it will just create a wide amount of players wearing sub par gears all day so they can turn materia instead of wearing there good gear or not even waist there time getting them all way to end game. but again we'll see how it's implemented and how it pans out. if having to turn materia from nm drops is important then it will keep content and nm's from being useless but i still think it will ruin parties with people geared in stuff they wouldn't be.
I don't think it'll take a month worth of wearing a piece of gear to fill the prerequisites for manufacturing materia. Maybe a week at most. I really don't think it'll have everyone running around in NQ for an extended period of time. Honestly, while a valid concern, I don't think it'll be as ad as you are making it out to be.

I bet you the time it takes to out rank a piece of equipment it will be made into materia. Any more time than that, and people might as well just repair it for resale instead transmuting it. If it takes an extended period of time, it would do absolutely nothing for reducing the number of NQ's on the market.