Materia Help -- Materia System Needs Overhaul, seriously

[zenfrodo]

The Materia System needs a huge overhaul. As is, it's too complicated, often wrong, and still too much *expensive* trial & error to figure out what can go into a slot.

They added in the screen that shows what stats are "available" for your gear....maybe. Sort of. If it feels like it, for all I know. Because I have yet to have that "Available Enhancements" section actually be helpful.

On one of my toons, I have L36 HQ shoes -- Toadskin Duckbills, two materia slots. There's already a Quicktongue II Materia there, and the circle is about half-filled, which is supposed to indicate that the slot can take a higher-level materia, right? Which should mean a III Materia...right? All my other similar level gear is the same way -- the II materias only half-fill the slots, which SHOULD indicate that you can use III Materia...right?

Wrong.

According to the "Available Materia Enhancements" section, the item has 6 points of Accuracy available. BUT a Heaven's Eye Materia III (+6 Accuracy) is greyed out. I can't put it in there, period. Ditto for all the OTHER III Materia I have of the stats that the Enhancements "claim" should be available -- all those are greyed out & can't be melded.

What can be melded? A Gatherer's Guerdon II. GATHERING. On a BATTLE item.

Too bad I didn't find that out until AFTER I bought a Heaven's Eye Materia. Because by the "Enhancements" section and those little half-filled circles, the item should've handled a HE III just fine.

GAH.

My suggestion: PLEASE, just list on the gear info what exact materia it can handle. PLEASE. Or at least label the slots.