Please let us socket materia without crafting

[Shurrikhan]

I don't understand how it's so much to ask that dungeon and raid gear not newly require a crafter to really utilize. Because that's exactly what the extra slot on each piece does unless base materia slots become fill-able without a crafter.

Leave all slots beyond that for crafters, perhaps even including that first slot on crafted gear.

[Conradus]

I don't understand how it's so much to ask that dungeon and raid gear not newly require a crafter to really utilize.

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

[RaineAmorie]

No one cared about this until slots were put on tome/raid gear. It's all about supply and demand, there was no demand for melds before so no one gave a crap, now there's a demand and everyone wants to do it. Slotting materia is a unique ability only suited to crafters, just be glad you convert things without having the craft leveled.

You can't always have everything, hell I want to be able to take more than 3 auto attacks from a lv60 mob as DoL/DoH but I can't.

[Zojha]

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

The whole point of adding the slot was enabling more customization, which dozens of people kept begging for on the forums >_>

And even in those threads, people kept pointing out that materia was not the way to go about the customization if the melding stays in the hands of crafters because people would end up not utilizing the slots at all.

We've had these discussions before. Personally, I'd rather have non-customizable gear that I don't need to bother with beyond acquisition (Like we used to get). Should be an option, so that people who do prefer it the current way can get their customized melds instead.

[MagiusNecros]

Because requiring a crafter was the whole point of adding the slot.

Except as far as the raid gear is concerned you aren't adding a slot at all. You are just quite literally dropping a ball in a hole. And you need a crafting class to do that?

[Lambdafish]

Except as far as the raid gear is concerned you aren't adding a slot at all. You are just quite literally dropping a ball in a hole. And you need a crafting class to do that?

are you really bringing lore into this? well then its actually a more complicated process than that, from what I gather, there is no hole and there is no ball, you are using the aetheric energy from the materia stone and imbuing the weapon or armour with it, in a sense you are augmenting the gear with aether to increase its strength, that sounds like something that only someone with a knowledge of how the gear is constructed would be able to do.

Materia melding as a concept is far different from how it was in FFVII, these are two different universes.

[MagiusNecros]

are you really bringing lore into this? well then its actually a more complicated process than that, from what I gather, there is no hole and there is no ball, you are using the aetheric energy from the materia stone and imbuing the weapon or armour with it, in a sense you are augmenting the gear with aether to increase its strength, that sounds like something that only someone with a knowledge of how the gear is constructed would be able to do.

Materia melding as a concept is far different from how it was in FFVII, these are two different universes.

Sounds like a copout excuse since some gear obviously has materia slots visible on it via the gear description. When you overmeld however you are using crafting techniques to meld more slots in. If you did not overmeld those slots wouldn't even show up to begin with.

[Andrea]

Sounds like a copout excuse

Using the lore excuse there would be a lot of stuff need changed.

For example, why does a sandwich require 59 cooking compared to a souffle needing only 39.

Lore should never be a reason to change something so saying its just putting balls in a hole isn't really a reason to change something.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

adding to the lore: melding is introduced to the character via a MSQ involving taking a piece of gear to a npc and having the npc meld materia into the gear. Realistically, that's what the supporters of this idea want: an npc to meld into existing slots (no overmelding, still have to have the materia and catalyst, and have to pay a progressive fee based on the materia tier being melded)

[MagiusNecros]

adding to the lore: melding is introduced to the character via a MSQ involving taking a piece of gear to a npc and having the npc meld materia into the gear. Realistically, that's what the supporters of this idea want: an npc to meld into existing slots (no overmelding, still have to have the materia and catalyst, and have to pay a progressive fee based on the materia tier being melded)

This would be acceptable.