Quote Originally Posted by Zfz View Post
Prices are dropping only because there's nothing to use it for. Although gatherer and crafter materia most likely will climb first due to the nature of the design. Then in 3.1 when the new crafted gear and new relic quest comes out, materia prices will probably sky-rocket. I'm saving all my materia for 3.1.
I bought materia super cheap the first day of early access when prices dropped really low, and melded them onto a few of the quest reward accessories and gear that I actually used. I put some INT IV materia on my SCH's new healing accessories since there wasn't INT on them already... why not at the rock bottom prices I bought them for? And I bought a bunch of VIT IV materia for super cheap and put those on a few aiming/casting accessories that replaced some that were only i110. It will all spiritbond quicker and an extra 21 or so VIT distributed across a few otherwise empty materia sockets never hurt.

And from a relic perspective I bought some Spellspeed IV materia at panic sell prices that have since gone up, b/c that stat matters a lot more to Summoners now.