Expand the Materia System! (ideas welcome)

[carlosx]

alchemy ability to fusion materias sounds like a nice tool to have

[Jinko]

How about if you fail a meld you lose the materia but not the item, this would require materia being made rarer of course.

I think many people don't want to play around with materia past the first meld down to losing their hard work, obviously make the catalyst more rare also, this way it becomes more a case of a gil sink than anything else.

Right now materia is way too common.

You could add a debuff on failing a meld where you have to wait 15 mins before you can try again or something.

[Lux_Rayna]

How about if you fail a meld you lose the materia but not the item, this would require materia being made rarer of course.

I think many people don't want to play around with materia past the first meld down to losing their hard work, obviously make the catalyst more rare also, this way it becomes more a case of a gil sink than anything else.

Right now materia is way too common.

You could add a debuff on failing a meld where you have to wait 15 mins before you can try again or something.

I dont mind the item breaking so much as that anything above a single meld is practically impossible. Let's look at the facts here:

1) Single meld = insta success (basically)

2) Double Meld TIV is like 18% chance.

I mean seriously? The probability rates don't scale well at all. I personally feel double melds should be around the 30% mark, with triple at 18-20, quadruple 8-10, and quintuple at like 1% or something ridiculous like that. But 18% for a double meld is just ridiculous. The scaling could use some serious work imo.

[Jinko]

Although like I say I'm not a fan of multimelding I can see your point, why not half the success ever meld.

100 > 50 > 25 > 13 > 6, that seem pretty good odds to me.