Thread: 2.25 Materia Conversion - Opinions?

Today after logging in not even an hour after servers came back up the entire market for materia was wiped out. Initial reports from people who did the exchange said its completely random, 5 materia for 1 of a random stat. So you trade in 5 crafter materia, get 1 elemental of the same grade. Really? Crash the market for that?

Kinda upsetting that this is what Squenix puts their effort into. Not things people actually want. Maybe look into Chocobo stat resets or breeding? Catalysts for raising melding %, Better rng calculators? Idk there are a million things i think they could have focused on other than this.

Other opinions?

wait, wait... any 5 materia, will net you 1 materia? Same tier or increased tier?

Sounds like this is just sucking the materia out of the world for hardly any return.

I don't think anyone in their right mind would try to transmute crafting materia. Rather, that's almost guaranteed to lose you value.
It is random in that it isn't tied to the respective pools like you'd see with spiritbinding.

I just posted about this elsewheres, so c/p:

It's a little ironic that a system like SBing which utilizes RNG is the most stable method of generating wealth via crafting.
To me it seems like they're trying to shift the balance of wealth away from the craft SBers, while providing greater reward for generating materia across all levels.
This patch only serves to (perhaps temporarily) drive up base costs for us, but benefits the ones SBing battle-type materia as they've now an outlet for the elemental III/IVs.

With the previous patch that saw a relatively high minimum NPC price for all materia added, direct result was 3-4x price hike compared to prepatch prices. Still workable, but forcibly designates a higher amount to the users generating all the crap materia we use in bulk. I don't think it stimulated activity like they'd perhaps hoped though? Which is why we now see this weird materia transmutation system, which only really seems useful for elemental IVs, perhaps IIIs. Everything else is mostly in the bracket where, as others mentioned, it would be more profitable to just MB them.

As for tier Is being high atm, I'm content to just sell them off in bulk at absurdly high prices, and wait for it to normalize a week or so down the line.

I don't think this addition was intended so much as a -new interesting feature- so much as it was to divert wealth away from the subset of people bulk SBing, in an attempt to close the gap by indirectly further increasing the cost of a key component.

Take 5 worthless Materia for a chance at 1 good Materia?

I'll stick to taking my Elemental Resistance Materia and melding to to gear I want to SB.

Originally Posted by Nalien

Take 5 worthless Materia for a chance at 1 good Materia?

I'll stick to taking my Elemental Resistance Materia and melding to to gear I want to SB.

Truth.
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If that's the case then all this will do is drive up the price of lower tier materia.

I got some nice 200k or so by exploiting people who bought overpriced materia on the market board.

Praise Yoshida design!

It already did lol. Ive seen 700 gil materia go for 5000gil earlier today