melding lore gear

[Jaeifer]

The materia is lost in the process. One of our groups has cleared A6S and discovered this during an accessory upgrade. Not that it comes as much of a surprise but can confirm.

[Maero]

IV Materia is also available from Beast Tribe Quests now, not sure why you would buy?
I have been stocking up Quicktongue and also Savage Might Materia

[Slappah]

IV Materia is also available from Beast Tribe Quests now, not sure why you would buy?
I have been stocking up Quicktongue and also Savage Might Materia

The ARR beast tribes that give IV don't give it until like rank 5 or higher

Which, for someone like me who hasn't done any of the ARR beast tribes, it would take me well over a month just to get to the point where I could start getting IV

In that time I'll have already needed the materia a long time ago

[Anzaman]

The ARR beast tribes that give IV don't give it until like rank 5 or higher

I got Amalj'aa rank 3 couple days ago and that unlocked Materia IV -daily quests.

[Slappah]

I got Amalj'aa rank 3 couple days ago and that unlocked Materia IV -daily quests.

That's a bit better, even so, rank 3 will take me something like 33 days to get

[Maero]

The ARR beast tribes that give IV don't give it until like rank 5 or higher

Which, for someone like me who hasn't done any of the ARR beast tribes, it would take me well over a month just to get to the point where I could start getting IV

In that time I'll have already needed the materia a long time ago

Heaven forbid someone trying to be helpful.....
Besides i do not recall replying to you but the OP

[Slappah]

Heaven forbid someone trying to be helpful.....
Besides i do not recall replying to you but the OP

Well..excuse me..

Heavens forbid I state my opinion on a matter in a thread in GD

How dare I, next time I'll just keep my mouth shut!

[Evangela]

When you "upgrade" these gears, it actually is a trading and not upgrading. So your materias will be gone.

[Derio]

You lose the materia. However it is easy to get materia for lore gear. Beast tribe give out materia IV and you can get materia V from Diadem or the weekly item trade from Void Ark.

[Evangela]

Even if I do Void Ark and Diadem, I'd rather sell the materias I got. Putting 300-700k worth of materias in Midas or vanilla lore gears would be a waste in like 2-3 weeks later.

They should allow us to remove materias from gears.