Questions on Materia

[ItMe]

Please note though that when you level synch your gear doesn't apply any materia bonuses.
Depending on what content you're running and how fast you might be outlevelling the story it might be worthless to add materia onto your gear now.

[SnowVix]

That said, it's guaranteed to receive your materia back from your gear now (at least I assume you can still do that even without having the crafters leveled), so there's certainly no harm, either.

it's only guaranteed until you start slotting the current two grades of materia, VIII and VII