Primary Stat Materia

[Alestorm]

What purpose do these serve besides giving tanks some strength and over melding? I've yet to see a gear piece that didn't have the main stat maxed out. I can't imagine a Black Mage melding dexterity or a healer with tenacity.

Why bother making them in the game if they're pretty much useless? (minus tanks)

[Zfz]

To make sure you don't always get the materia you want.

[etherian]

for mutamix to convert into crafter/gatherer's materias
so you dont need to feel bad using them

[Tint]

you can use the mainstat materia to increase the mainstat on NQ gear, since they are only capped out on HQ gear.

[Serilda]

You can also use the VIT mainstat materia on accessories if you're not a tank and need some extra HP. The rest just gets transmuted as it's lame.

[dlgc]

I keep some Vit ones for raiding. Sometimes I keep others too for no good reason, I think I am part magpie and like shiny things...

Cheers,
D.

[Airget]

With transmute always make sure you use 5 different materia of the same tier. This way you won't get those 5 options when obtaining a new materia. The game currently has 11/24 useless materia(vit being argued) so by reducing that to 6/19 your odds of getting a decent materia are 13/19. 6/19 can be DOL, 7/19 can be DOW/DOM related, the other 6/19 are duds.