Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
That's not what I meant and you know it. Doing quests to make a weapon stronger is not the same thing as building a weapon, HQing and Affixing a custom Materia Scheme.

What is the point of a Materia System if it is always less powerful?
Upgrading is upgrading.

The materia system isn't devaluated because of one slot. There's still six other slots. Plus, the issue with weapons is base damage. Fix that to where a crafted weapon of the same level with multiple materia can perform on par with raid drops and it's resolved.