[dev1358] Materia Reform - Discussion.

[viion]

If someone else can put materia onto my char in the same sense of repairs, does this include stacking?

Say for example, I want some materia, I put the request up, maybe I go afk, go to shop, go to bed, w/e, some guy comes, throws the materia on, another guy comes, he tries the 2nd one, then someone else comes tries 3rd, fails, my item gone?

Is it just as fast as repairing, so someone could effectively spam materia and break your item, not sure if it mentions this, didnt read it all, but that be a bit annoyings

[Jinko]

If someone else can put materia onto my char in the same sense of repairs, does this include stacking?

Say for example, I want some materia, I put the request up, maybe I go afk, go to shop, go to bed, w/e, some guy comes, throws the materia on, another guy comes, he tries the 2nd one, then someone else comes tries 3rd, fails, my item gone?

Is it just as fast as repairing, so someone could effectively spam materia and break your item, not sure if it mentions this, didnt read it all, but that be a bit annoyings

Says at the bottom of the post in red that you can only affix the first piece of materia like this.

Multi-meld must be done the same as usual

Wish they would kill multi-meld and just release rare materia.

[Veridian]

I spent millions to double meld a Serenity IV belt and now they increase it by double fold?! This ticks me off so much! I know they did not take into account the gear we have already worked hard to meld, as if they are that nice.

[Molly_Millions]

I spent millions to double meld a Serenity IV belt and now they increase it by double fold?! This ticks me off so much! I know they did not take into account the gear we have already worked hard to meld, as if they are that nice.

don't worry about your current melded gear. If you notice how materia works you can see that a triple melded piece, for example, is actually 3 items; your piece of gear plus whatever materia you added to it. So when they do this update they will update the stats on all materia in the game. So when the pieces of materia that are attached to your piece of gear get updated, the stats on the gear will be updated too.

[Jinko]

don't worry about your current melded gear. If you notice how materia works you can see that a triple melded piece, for example, is actually 3 items; your piece of gear plus whatever materia you added to it. So when they do this update they will update the stats on all materia in the game. So when the pieces of materia that are attached to your piece of gear get updated, the stats on the gear will be updated too.

LOL you hope, this is SE we are talking about remember.

[Elexia]

LOL you hope, this is SE we are talking about remember.

It is indeed SE. In FFXI when they reduced the kill count from 100 mobs > 50 mobs while making each mob count as 5 regardless of weather present or not for magian trials, it worked retroactively and when I had 72 kills done I was already done due to this change.

Same company.

[darkstarpoet1]

I spent millions to double meld a Serenity IV belt and now they increase it by double fold?! This ticks me off so much! I know they did not take into account the gear we have already worked hard to meld, as if they are that nice.

on the lodestone post it states the materia in game will be adjusted to match the stat adjustments. your -8 serenity is likely to be like -22 afterwards or something like that.

[Elexia]

I spent millions to double meld a Serenity IV belt and now they increase it by double fold?! This ticks me off so much! I know they did not take into account the gear we have already worked hard to meld, as if they are that nice.

They took into consideration of the future of the game.

[Rydin]

The new materia looks... ok.. I guess, whatever

We are all missing the BIG PICTURE here...

Materia request in the bazaar completely opens things up...
It has the potential to be a game changer, as it opens up the possibility for:

1. Unique/Untradeable (U/U) gear to be meldable. It's unlikely... but its now possible. I know it was technically possible before, but it would have excluded anyone who didn't have the job to attach the materia... U/U gear could be limited to 1 materia only... OR U/U gear could be limited to special materia only, i.e. No materia will meld on an Ifrit weapon except Phoenix dropping a materia that can ONLY go on an Ifrit weapon

2. U/U materia... some epic tank materia made only from Heavy Darklight Gear. Obviously not when the gear is new... but at, say 2.0, when there is tons of new content... that would be a reason for many new and returning players to go back and do the Chimera and Miser's Mistress. I know, these dungeons might not even be available at 2.0, but you get the point of the example. Once gear becomes outdated it could produce decent U/U materia, further prolonging that content

3. U/U catalyst - pretty self explanatory. Instead of dropping Materia... Phoenix drops a special catalyst that makes Ifrit weapons 1-slot meldable, or is needed for some rare materia

Or maybe none of that will happen... who knows... but it's possible... and that has me excited

Jinko, I wouldn't mind if there was only 1 materia slot either, or at the most 2
and instead the actual materia was adjusted for balance...

Now I just want to see materia that changes either the name or the look of a piece of gear. I know it probably wont happen... call me crazy but I think it would be cool