Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
I'll give you 3:

1. Materia system is new.
2. They're observing how people use the system in general.
3. Balance -- Adding it to even raid gear would be overpowering and pretty much kills the need for synthesis gear.

Those "plethora of avenues" are from crafted gear, which is always expanded and always adjusted in patches because there will always be more synthesis gear than raid gear in the end(which is absolutely fine.) Most MMOs just have a few sets of armor that you upgrade through various means and drop gear almost always become worthless compared to a fully upgraded x set.

Materia has only existed for 1 patch really, gotta give them time to get the system optimized.
They should just make those Materials in raids "Special Materials". Remove the armor itself from raids and just toss out Materials. It would make same piece of gear but not ra/ex. This way this would benfit crafters and raids much better. It would also work better with the Materia System. Ra/ex gear still ok idea but should be aimed more for Under lv45.