Materia Overmelding - Process Refinement

[Whomper]

Materia overmelding can be such a pain in the butt sometimes, right? Sure, you might get lucky once in a while, but then you'll stumble into that 10% chance that ends up burning through 42 materia while you scream in a Limsan dialect. I have a proposition - an idea - which would make this process a bit more sane!

You know how we have totems for the completion of difficult trials? Those totems remove a bit of the pain caused by RNG. You are guaranteed a mount after (ugh) 99 runs. My idea: let's take that concept and apply it to materia! The way it would work is like this:

For every failed materia overmeld or removal, you would get one "Materia Dust" item. I mean, that materia went kablooey, so it would make sense to have at least a hint of dust left, right? "Well dang, what would we do with that dust?" I hear you asking. As it turns out, our ol' pal Mutamix Bubblypots knows a thing or two about mashing up materia, and has managed to figure out how to make a special oil from all that dust! This oil is guaranteed to help with the success or removal of materia!


Grade 1 Materia Oil
[UNTRADEABLE][MARKET PROHIBITED]
Increases the success rate of any materia meld or removal with at least a 50% chance of success to 100%.
Stack Size: 999
Sells for: 10 gil

Grade 2 Materia Oil
[UNTRADEABLE][MARKET PROHIBITED]
Increases the success rate of any materia meld or removal with at least a 15% chance of success to 100%.
Stack Size: 999
Sells for: 30 gil

Grade 3 Materia Oil
[UNTRADEABLE][MARKET PROHIBITED]
Increases the success rate of any materia meld or removal with at least a 10% chance of success to 100%.
Stack Size: 999
Sells for: 60 gil

Grade 4 Materia Oil
[UNTRADEABLE][MARKET PROHIBITED]
Increases the success rate of any materia meld or removal with at least a 7% chance of success to 100%.
Stack Size: 999
Sells for: 120 gil

Grade 5 Materia Oil
[UNTRADEABLE][MARKET PROHIBITED]
Increases the success rate of any materia meld or removal to 100%.
Stack Size: 999
Sells for: 200 gil


Of course, to get your hands on a bottle of these oils, you'll need to provide Mutamix with the appropriate materials. Here's my suggestion for the quantities:

Grade 1 Materia Oil
2 Materia Dust
1 Aether Oil

Grade 2 Materia Oil
15 Materia Dust
1 Aether Oil

Grade 3 Materia Oil
25 Materia Dust
1 Aether Oil

Grade 4 Materia Oil
35 Materia Dust
1 Aether Oil

Grade 5 Materia Oil
50 Materia Dust
1 Aether Oil

So there's the idea. Item flavor text has been redacted due to post length. I welcome feedback!

[Silverdrake000]

I like it, seems balanced, and would be nice to have a guaranteed chance to meld after so many failures!

[Wilford111]

Nice idea in theory but inventory space would suffer even more.

[DrWho2010]

Um yeah no. overmelding failure is there for a reason.

[Floortank]

No inventory bloat or mutamix needed, just make the rate chance increase every 10 fails. Done.