1 Materia makes any crafted item better than any NM/Raid/Dungeon item. Why?

[DoctorMog]

I thought there was supposed to be some sort of balancing going on here?

Every Dungeon item, every NM item, all useless if they are unique/untradable.

A single materia of appropriate level in any crafted item makes NM/raid gear useless.

Unacceptable.

This makes raiding pointless.

There is no reason to do Batraal anymore. Nor kill any of the world NMs.

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

[tragic]

I look at the materia page on FFXIV pro and then I think about vendoring every unique I have to free up some space. Before I click to sell button I think to myself maybe it will be cool to have this useless gear equipped so I can wear it in town. Now while it seems almost everything from before is useless what I am wondering how is how attack power scales. I think Ifrit items are the only thing with attack power and with a base of 20 that may be pretty significant depending on how attack power scales. However, you can get 30 attack power through materia! So it would seem not only the NM items from the past are garbage so are the new ones.

[Murugan]

I thought there was supposed to be some sort of balancing going on here?

Every Dungeon item, every NM item, all useless if they are unique/untradable.

A single materia of appropriate level in any crafted item makes NM/raid gear useless.

Unacceptable.

This makes raiding pointless.

There is no reason to do Batraal anymore. Nor kill any of the world NMs.

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

Can not sentinel etc. gear from coffers be fitted with Materia?

[Rinsui]

Is there something I am missing?

It needs addressing asap.

1.) Composure.
2.) What? Your angst?

[Xeno]

Chill bro, you know they will make UU equipment meldable next patch. If they don't they are dumb. Simple as that.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I believe they said something along the lines of looking into allowing r/ex items to be "slotted" with materia but they wanted to view the system as it is now before making the commitment to that change. Let's just feel it out for a couple weeks, before jumping to the /angry emotes.

[Gramul]

lol i dunno.

[Adol]

SE giving the power to the crafters is a good thing. Why complain about it?
The raid gear is for those who don't know of any dedicated crafters and/ or just want to take part in a dungeon and kill a boss. It doesn't make the raids pointless at all.

[SodaPop]

Because crafting is more difficult and as a result more rewarding than getting a drop because you sucked up to your shell leader.

/thread

[Chardrizard]

People will be fine about materia giving more bonus if it's not such an incredible difference, geez one materia can already goes anystat+12~15, that is alraedy 3x raid gear... right now it's pointless to get raid gear because ONE materia + crafted gear will triumphs everything from raid.