Consider Materia revision?

[ChiefCurrahee]

Looking at the different meldable materias I often wonder if this is the final form of materia bonding.

In our current form everyone is gearing to either output more damage or increase HP/MP.

What about materias that have +evasion +parry +block. or the +resist to poision/slow/blind ect ect.

Why didn't they create a system where Materia came in different shapes/sizes and gear was crafted with multiple slots of different shapes/sizes

So we could meld a HP+ a +parry and a +Fire resist on a single piece w/o the threat of breaking the item.

I suppose players could still strive for gear with a variety of attributes, but under current form there is a lot of materia going to waste. No one will risk a double triple meld of a variety of materia over stacked single stat materia.

i.e. +20 str +15 parry +50HP over +20 str +20 str +20 str.

[Jinko]

Why didn't they create a system where Materia came in different shapes/sizes and gear was crafted with multiple slots of different shapes/sizes

This would be a good idea.

So we could meld a HP+ a +parry and a +Fire resist on a single piece w/o the threat of breaking the item.

Agree with this.

I suppose players could still strive for gear with a variety of attributes, but under current form there is a lot of materia going to waste. No one will risk a double triple meld of a variety of materia over stacked single stat materia.

i.e. +20 str +15 parry +50HP over +20 str +20 str +20 str.

Yup making players mix their materia instead of concentrating on just one stat makes more sense to me.

[ChiefCurrahee]

To refine the idea further, and to make what i hav efloating around in my head more clear:

Stat materia ( +str +dex + vit ect ect) is "triangle" shapped
attack materia (+crit +att +magic crit +magic att) is "star" shaped
defence materia (+block +dodge +parry) is "square shaped"
resistance materia ( poison resist, fire resist ect ect) is "circle" shaped
HP/MP materia is "rectangle" shaped

Crafter gear can comes with different shaped slots to attach different materia to.

lets say a pair of caster gloves comes with 3 slots, (star, rectangle and a triangle) so you can meld a stat, an attack and a hp/mp

of course this would have to re-work the whole materia system, but what if SE made it so we woudl have a higher success rate if we meld different classes of materia?

currently first meld is 100% 2nd is 20% (I don't know the real numbers) the 3rd is 10% no matter what category of materia you try, only factor is level of materia level I has higher chance for multi-meld than a lv IV.

what if SE gave us a +10% chance increase if we try to multi-meld a different category of materia? we might see more use out of the system and more of a variety of gear.

[Alzelia]

I like the idea of greater chances of melding with different materia types, seems like the simplest solution.

[tymora]

Depending on your first meld, 2nd meld chance = 42.5% (Grade 1 x 2) to 10% (Grade 16 x 2) for L41+ gear.

3rd meld chance = 36.5% (Grade 1 x 3) to ~6.5% (Grade 16 x 3).

HQ gear now adds a flat 5% chance to all melds.