Materia effects active during PvP only.

During PvP, Materia bonuses are also ignored.

Here's a test I tried: My crit rating is 768, synced and inside the feast it's 658.

Then I melded a Savage Aim IV Materia Critical Hit Rate +9 into my PvP Gauntlets.

Melding showed a successful gain of +9 crit rating on the gauntlets.
After melding my crit rating is 768 still which is to be expected so far.

Synced and inside the feast my crit rating is 658 still. No change.



Finally My question and maybe I need to do further testing is pvp materia will only work on pvp gear and inside pvp instances only, no exceptions? No non pvp materia inside to gain extra crit on my enemy. Also outside questing or farming or doing alexander bosses melding crit + 9 into my halone's gauntlets won't do anything.


Basically boiling it down to you can't use pvp gear for pve, and pve gear/materia for pvp? Do I have this all correct?


My brain hurts just trying to figure this out.