does elemental materia have a point?

[Aivi_lo]

It used to in 11, can't rememberif it did in 1.0. Just curious.

[Lego3400]

No.
/10 charcters

[Krr]

Yes.

It makes you hate and curse the RNG whenever you try to convert i49s.

[Juneri]

The only thing it is good for right now is pretty much to be transmuted into other kinds of materia. I have no idea if they were any good or not in 1.0 but they certainly aren't right now.

[Kiroh]

No, not really. Honestly most "elemental" attacks that mean anything in terms of damage aren't affected by resistances.

As for 1.0, yes they could be melded to weapons and they were pretty on par with Magic attack bonus in terms of potency for BLM and WHM.

[aisustrong]

pissing people off

[Skeith-Adeline]

Yea, they should probably either remove their existence in general or make a need for them. It's annoying when a whole spiritbind set turns out to be Wind/Water IV materia. It'd also help the market.

[Lovescake]

Meld them into other gear = faster spiritbonding.

[Noutaja]

I have been wondering why elemental stats/materias exist since the first days of alpha. They have no use in this game, the only time I have seen any elemental stats do anything is the shiva weapon in snowcloak and shiva herself. Makes me facepalm so much I might actually need a bandaid.
They should be removed or put to use, right away.

[SlyRoyale]

There are only two things elemental materia is useful for:

1) Melding to gear your spiritbonding to boost the rate of getting the melded gear bound.
2) Materia transmutation.

That's pretty much it.