New System Involving Materia

[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...

[gornotck]

Baffling. They can BUY a hempen chemise in any of the starting towns.

[Kyana]

I have only tried it 3 times, but it seems to give you a random materia from ANY of the same tier

So 5 materia I's gives a random materia I, 5 materia IV's give a materia IV

Let's hope it's impossible to get back the same materia you use for transmutaion.
Combining 5 CP+1 materia to get 1 CP+1 materia would suck ^^

Baffling. They can BUY a hempen chemise in any of the starting towns.

You know, people even buy stuff from AH they could get from an NPC in the same area for half the price ><

[TomTom1968]

I have only tried it 3 times, but it seems to give you a random materia from ANY of the same tier

So 5 materia I's gives a random materia I, 5 materia IV's give a materia IV

WTF u serious? Turn in 5, get 1 random ????? LMAO. And if you are real lucky, you turn in 5 Earth resistance Materia III and receive one Earth resistance materia III? Or a wind resistance III? This is a joke, right? No? Oh boy, my hopes were high when I saw the patch notes but this is just ridiculous.

If they would have made it like use 5 Materia and determine which kind of Materia of the same level you would like to get or if they would have make it so that you get one random Materia of the next higher tier, I would have been cool with it. But that's just more of the same and already known lottery game.

So instead of having 5 materia I can use for sprit bonding I may have just one? Sometimes it is amazing what they come up with. And for such features they find time while Fantasia and Choccobo reset still await a solution? Just amazing how deeply they seem to be in love with their RNG elements.

Thanks for the information nevertheless. So I know it is nothing I need to do urgently.

[Inzoum]

They had ONE JOB:

Look at Diablo II's Horadric Cube Gem combining. Implement EXACTLY that.

Square Enix has a rare talent for screwing up good ideas.

[FJerome]

. . . Semi-baffled as to what they were intending here? Unwanted lower-tier materia already had a niche in speeding-up spirit-bonding, which is a much more reliable way of producing high-grade materia than this seems to be.

[Taruranto]

Thanks to all the people buying all my useless materia for 2k on the market!

. . . Semi-baffled as to what they were intending here?

Making me (even more) rich, obviously.

[Kyana]

Some players posted their results: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ia-achievement

So it's possible to get higher tier materia.

[Galliano]

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.

[Drivont]

What about materia merging? Like 5 lvl 3 materia to make a lvl 4 of the same kind and so on?

Aaaaaand you called it..... but with 100% more RNG than expected.... ; ;