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.

[Lemuria]

The only thing it is exists 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.

FTFY. Transmutation is far from 'good' and can, more often than not, just give you another elemental materia for your troubles. Converting 5 T4 earth materia into a T4 fire materia made me want to strangle a moogle. I wish they'd kill the randomness of transmutation, so that alike materia produce like identical results. After all, why would 5 battledance materia suddenly turn into a Quickarm materia? They're not even remotely close in ability or hue!

[Canadane]

FTFY. Transmutation is far from 'good' and can, more often than not, just give you another elemental materia for your troubles. Converting 5 T4 earth materia into a T4 fire materia made me want to strangle a moogle. I wish they'd kill the randomness of transmutation, so that alike materia produce like identical results. After all, why would 5 battledance materia suddenly turn into a Quickarm materia? They're not even remotely close in ability or hue!

Mutamix will not give you back a materia you've given him.
So don't give him 5 of the same type. For example, give him an earth, fire, wind, water, vit. He should return some realm saving materia rather than something useless.

[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.