why a class that actually work on the materia, the idea of a materia giving a large chunk of stats is not really balanced, however, it's not a bad idea. instead of stats why not allows the player to get an effect like va small boost of movement speed and such.

they will be the one to create this materia and this stuff will be extremely limited to 1-2 effect max. they can to have some materia enhancing, if not change the way skill work. the main trouble of FF14 is the lack of customization of the jobs in any way. they can be the one to create too the item for allows the add of this materia on the equipement that don't have normally slot.

don't get me wrong i know that it will be hard to add tons of recipe on a new jobs, but it can be used for craft some magical tool for futur jobs added. i dunno, but i feel the idea of a new crafting jobs is not bad, especially if this one is specialized into giving more customization for the developpement of the jobs. finally soo far the materia are barely usefull outside of the hardcore, craft and gathering, it's sad to think that this system is not fully used.