Grade 1-4 Materia

[Kalise]

I mean... If you REALLY want...

You can do Ixal quests and buy a ton of level 1-3 crafting Materia and then go take it all to Mutamix and shiftymake it until you're left with only combat materia.

Like some crazy kitty is doing >.>

(Seriously, we need QoL updates for Mutamix... When I walk up to him with several 999 stacks of materia I get the same dread as when I queue up for Eureka ;_; )

ARR Relic needs a Grade 3 specifically for one part of the relic and then you need about 80 grade 1-3 ranks of materia to meld with the alexandrite for the scroll.

Relic requires 2x Grade 3 (Melded onto a specific weapon, as it's forming the "Base" of the Relic)

Then Novus requires 75 melded grade 1-3 materia (Though, with fail chances, it's likely you'll need more than 75 pieces of materia)

[Rosa_Frandlia]

ARR relic is one example that requires them.

Crafting job quests too, although not nearly as many as the ARR relic quest.