New Job Concept: Riskbreaker

[Seraphor]

Well, I mean the split would be: 3/3/3/3/3. Tank, Healer and then heavy armor, medium armor and light armor DPS.
Assuming the leaks and hints are right, it'll most likely go to 4/4/3/3/3 in 5.0.

The only issue really IMHO is materia is currently linked to gear rather than job, but that could be solved by having materia melds be job specific.
I'd like something materia altering even if nothing else changes to be honest, sharing melds across a role is already a bit awkward in some cases.

I think such an overhaul of Materia is incredibly unlikely. It's intrinsically tied to various quests and functions.
Crafter classes are linked to melding materia to equipment, countless quests require it, and its integral to the concept if Materia itself.
They'd be more likely to introduce sonething entire different like Magicite.

[Jandor]

I think such an overhaul of Materia is incredibly unlikely.

I'm not really asking for an overhaul as such. If I'm wearing "chest piece of fending" on Paladin and I meld a bunch of stuff to it, when I equip the same "chest piece of fending" to Dark Knight or Warrior (or Gunblade maybe) it should be empty.

It could theoretically be just a gameplay thing that is never touched upon, but if it does require an explanation none of the current stuff has to be re-written, just add some lore fluff on top.

Like as our job stone becomes more powerful (at say level 70+) it's power and the large amount of aether we've imbued it with causes materia kept in its vicinity to bind to it, rendering that same materia inert and functionally not present (i.e slots reopen) when it's near a different job stone.