Quote Originally Posted by NefGP View Post
Why the hell do we even have materia then?
People complained about the Risk vs Reward of Materia melding, so the droped the largest part of the "Risk" so they also needed to proportionatly scale the "reward" meaning that Ilvl have hard caps on stats (often allready hit them) and so crafted gear will never be better than any dungeon gear of higher ilvl (stat caps wise).