Okay, I'm going to try to keep this short because I could go on about how horrible the materia system is, especially for crafters.

It's honestly one of the worst systems in the game. They could maybe revamp this into being something fun, but instead it's just RNG that costs you time and/or gil.

You know what? Forget it. I'm just going to sum it up with this.

This is how I feel every time I'm melding to be able to craft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8fNpYHxUI8


Why? Just why? Why would you make your players suffer like this?