New System Involving Materia

[Sessurea]

imagine the value T5 material would have....the sheer time to spiritbond the equip with requisite ilvl would be insane.

Can't really see us being able to put material in i100+ gear tbh, they are already strong enough for everything the game can throw at us, now imagine coil2 gears with material. Yeah, no.

[Lamentations]

imagine the value T5 material would have....the sheer time to spiritbond the equip with requisite ilvl would be insane.

Can't really see us being able to put material in i100+ gear tbh, they are already strong enough for everything the game can throw at us, now imagine coil2 gears with material. Yeah, no.

Except if SE follows pattern even if they did this they would most likely not enable coil2 gear to be materia melded until after further content had been added and the old nerfed anyway.

This also brings to mind with me anyway what happens to gear you want melded but have already glamoured, I dunno.

[Airget]

Three concepts come to mind.

"Materia Polishing" the ability to upgrade lower tier materia into higher tier materia through some process so the aspect of obtaining a tier III when you wanted a tier IV is no longer as bad as it use to be since you can just go through another step to upgrade it

"Materia Catalyst" a new accesory slot that allows you to attune 3-5 materia through the purchase of a crafted item to add a bit more customization as well as allow the use of resistance materia to be more viable in dungeons and such

"Materia Overlay" Process of adding materia to unique/untradeable gear via the use of a specially crafted Crafter item which would allow you to add materia to gear which once had restrictions to said manner. However with this process each materia attempt would require said catalyst so the process of each meld would have 3 reuirements, the materia, the catalyst, and the specially crafted catlayst based on the repair class for piece of gear.

[Cetra]

I like to see the Materia System become less obtuse and more transparent. You shouldn't have to leave the game and search for Stat Caps on Google to figure out which Materia you're basically forced to use. There's very little choice in the system. I'd also like to see more Secondary Stats like Cure Potency, Block % Up, etc.

[Eekiki]

I like to see the Materia System become less obtuse and more transparent. You shouldn't have to leave the game and search for Stat Caps on Google to figure out which Materia you're basically forced to use. There's very little choice in the system. I'd also like to see more Secondary Stats like Cure Potency, Block % Up, etc.

So much truth. As a whole, the materia system is way too restrictive to be useful in the big scheme of things.

Seeing how this new system involving materia was in the same sentence as "additions and adjustments to the Wolves' Den", I think it's pretty likely they're only referring to PVP Materia.

I sure hope this isn't true, since my observations lead me to believe that next to nobody cares about PvP.

[Giantbane]

My hopes:

1) Give players another (better) option for materia generation other than grinding while wearing crappy gear.

2) Change the overmeld process so it doesn't involve spamming meld on a particular piece of gear until it sticks (very tedious).

[Fervid]

I sure hope this isn't true, since my observations lead me to believe that next to nobody cares about PvP.

Well.. I think most people are only taking what they want out of that sentence and in doing so are setting themselves up to be let down. I guess we'll find out soon enough. For the record, I hope I'm wrong.

[TheCurls]

Well.. I think most people are only taking what they want out of that sentence and in doing so are setting themselves up to be let down. I guess we'll find out soon enough. For the record, I hope I'm wrong.

The actual quote is: "Patch 2.25 will focus on additions and adjustments to the Wolves' Den, as well as a new system involving materia."

The "as well as..." does not mean the materia system refers to the wolves' den. It is referring to Patch 2.25's focus. If it was about the wolves' den, the sentence would have read "Patch 2.25 will focus on additions, ajustments, as well as introducing a new system involving materia to the Wolves' Den."

Edit- Hooray for English degrees. They're useful sometimes.

[Astralos]

The actual quote is: "Patch 2.25 will focus on additions and adjustments to the Wolves' Den, as well as a new system involving materia."

The "as well as..." does not mean the materia system refers to the wolves' den. It is referring to Patch 2.25's focus. If it was about the wolves' den, the sentence would have read "Patch 2.25 will focus on additions, ajustments, as well as introducing a new system involving materia to the Wolves' Den."

Edit- Hooray for English degrees. They're useful sometimes.

I agree with your interpretation. If it were a new system involving materia just for PvP, then the sentence is redundant. A new system involving materia for PvP would count as an addition to the Wolves' Den.

Of course, it could also be possible that SE bungled something up in the translation...it wouldn't be the first time.

[Cetra]

So much truth. As a whole, the materia system is way too restrictive to be useful in the big scheme of things.

Exactly, it never really serves a purpose except to allow someone to leapfrog a level of gear. Properly overmelded Vanya allows you to skip most Darklight for example. But you can't meld Darklight. So where is the real value in using Materia? As I see there is none. Not until the system is more transparent, and more items can be melded. I'll continue to use it if the system remains the same, but I'd love for the Materia System to be overhauled so that it matters at all levels of play rather than specific gear ranges. It would be a great way to get the whole gear stat game rolling.

I don't know about anyone else, but I love napkin-mathing gear at endgame to see which combination of gear etc gets me the most VIT or ACC or Parry. But that doesn't exist in FFXIV. A proper Materia System could change all that for the better.