Do you shame people for their choice of materia melds?

[Nora_of_Mira]

While technically true, materia adds a LOT of stats to a player. If you have normal blue quality equipment you have about 18 materia slots, or about 1080 to allocate to any stat you want.

This isn't even counting the savage accessories and i460 items with extra materia slots, and the fact that if you pentameld an item you're getting an extra 100 at least to any stat of your choosing, and 160 if it's an accessory or belt.

it definitely adds a ton of whatever stats you want to have. but my point was that it wont be making a huge difference in any non-Savage content, save for skill/spell speed. it will often be make-or-break on 1% enrage fights in savage but you dont have to worry about that in Extremes or dungeons.