Can I get a dev response please... Crafted battle gear.

[Xerius]

The real issue is materia. Since you can make gear better through materia it has to have a slightly lower stat rating to compensate. If we just did away with the materia system, standard crafted gear could be way better and cheaper.

[Dererk]

The real issue is materia. Since you can make gear better through materia it has to have a slightly lower stat rating to compensate. If we just did away with the materia system, standard crafted gear could be way better and cheaper.

Or how about we expand the use of materia. Lets have it so we can meld it on blue battle tome gear because right now crafters can meld their blue tools this will make the so called crafting is irelavent relavent again by crafting gear to sell for spirit bonding.

I just don't understand this argument. No one has ever forced you go spend millions of gil on gear and materia. If you were able to and wanted to, then more power to you. For the people who wanted to min/max their stats and thought it was worth the investment, they had the option to. Now that option is gone.

crafted gear in 2.xx was meant to be catch up gear not build full set Over Meld then Clear New Raids in a Week. They didn't like it being used this way so they got rid of this so called option and yes it is a choice to buy it but some people would probly be blocked out of groups unless they had this and we know how SE hates this.

And as iv just said they should let us meld blue battle gear this can also give people the custom build choice that they want (not that there's really a choice but still) and it doesn't even have to be much just 1 or 2 slots won't make that much of a difference but would still give a bit of a boost. just low enough so it dosnt become mandatory.

[maelor]

I agree with Xerius and Derek. Materia needs to be more usefull. The problem is once you meld it you lose it. I agree melding to blue or even green gear would be nice. You turn that gear in for points once your done with it so the gear is useful once you're done with it. maybe give more seals for melds? I'd really like to see there be a chance to get materia back on desynths... not 100% chance, but a chance none the less. Like 90% on each visible slot and then slightly down as you go down the list. Either way materia is part of the problem with crafting not really having an ultimate purpose.