Forbidden Materia

[Jynx]

Whatever the "Risk" is people will be upset with it and demand it be nerfed into a bonus of some sorts.

[Sav]

Whatever the "Risk" is people will be upset with it and demand it be nerfed into a bonus of some sorts.

With great rewards, come great...rewards?

[DoctorMog]

With great rewards, come great...rewards?

Editing this post because SE seems to hate my sarcastic humor.

So, the new edit:

Yes, that seems to be how SE wants to cater to the playerbase.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Loss of gear is the cost of failing on normal materia.
Why would you have the same risk on something that is much more rewarding?

Huh? If you add just one materia, then there isn't any failure. It's 100% guaranteed you won't lose the materia and gear if you add just one materia to your item. But if you try to add two, three, or four on top of that one, then there is risk of losing that gear and previously added materia.

EDIT: Ah I see what you're saying now, I think there isn't a "better" reward per se, I think maybe if you have three materia on one item, then maybe you get a bonus but if you're going for that bonus then there's a risk of losing everything you have.

[Holyomen]

Huh? If you add just one materia, then there isn't any failure. It's 100% guaranteed you won't lose the materia and gear if you add just one materia to your item. But if you try to add two, three, or four on top of that one, then there is risk of losing that gear and previously added materia.

EDIT: Ah I see what you're saying now, I think there isn't a "better" reward per se, I think maybe if you have three materia on one item, then maybe you get a bonus but if you're going for that bonus then there's a risk of losing everything you have.

I am referring to forbidden materia, of which we don't know anything about as of yet, not the adding of up to 5 normal materia.
All we know is that is it great power at a great cost.

[HiirNoivl]

They're not going to limit you to one craft. That would make it impossible to repair you're own gear. But they will probably limit the types of forbidden/endgame crafts you can do. You can level all Crafts to 50 but you can only "Master" one craft to make endgame gear. Or perhaps that you can only handle certain types of forbidden materia.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Casuals are gonna cry when they read this.

Expect 20 pages alone on this quote.

Get off your high horse.

[Jynx]

Get off your high horse.

Or perhaps it's time you got on one!

[Arcell]

I am referring to forbidden materia, of which we don't know anything about as of yet, not the adding of up to 5 normal materia.
All we know is that is it great power at a great cost.

I've never seen mention of Forbidden Materia anywhere. They mention a forbidden branch of the craft but not forbidden materia. This was originally used in reference to slotting more than one materia when it was first announced.

Edit: Found it

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post162041

Finally, rumors tell of a forbidden technique with a high risk of failure to attach another materia to an item that already has a materia attached to it…

[ChiefCurrahee]

Or perhaps it's time you got on one!

I'd rather it be a chocobo.