New System Involving Materia

[Chukkaque]

They've mentioned being able to customize your relic, so Im assuming they'll allow you to meld onto higher level gear.

[BreyVoreas93]

I would love to see some of these things be the case, but I really just hope it has nothing to do with pvp... Blah!!

[Rikkustrife]

they said in the last live letter that they will be reworking the materia system, so it is not pvp only

[nugglets]

I Got a Good Materia Obtain a high-grade materia through transmutation.

What high-grade materia actually is, I guess we find out on our own.

[UBERHAXED]

Tier 5? You know, since we had the tier 5 carbon matter since launch.

[Nekodar]

I heard that on the french release notes page it's explained as combining 5 materia to get a higher grade one.

[FJerome]

. . . Kinda glad I create all my materia myself because this is really going to make the lower-tier materia hard to come by on the market board and we do still need those for penta-melding. Overall a welcome change, though, and something to do with all the unwanted materia sloshing around in our FC chest.

[Kyana]

"You convert the Saurian Shirt of Striking into a Water Materia V."



Well, jokes aside, elemental materia should get a use in the future.

I like the idea of changing overmelding to a system which enables you to influence the outcome and reduce the pure RNG factor.
And I also agree that the stat caps should be visible when you select an item in the melding window.


Off topic:
And why do people always come up with the argument that crafters will always be needed to craft gear for materia conversion and to meld materia?
Why become a master crafter if all you do is meld materia and craft 0-star gear?

[Felis]

Off topic:
And why do people always come up with the argument that crafters will always be needed to craft gear for materia conversion and to meld materia?
Why become a master crafter if all you do is meld materia and craft 0-star gear?

Master crafters also craft vanity gear ^^

[Kyana]

Off topic:

Master crafters also craft vanity gear ^^

Which is lvl1 and where NQ/HQ makes no difference.

I'd like to be able to make my own endgame gear. Bind on pickup, I don't care.
But I feel a bit silly having almost max overmelds and being able to HQ 3-star gear, just to get asked to make a Hempen Camise...