Today, I learned new things about materia:

[SamSmoot]

1. It can be retrieved from gear. (Stripped old gear, have tons of materia now.)

2. There's a limit as to how much + materia can add to gear (So many +0/+1 waste)

(Every time I got new gear, I'd buy all new materia for it. I'm going to sell a lot of what I just retrieved to recoup my losses.. )