Materia system should be streamlined and based on FFVII.

[darkstarpoet1]

I didn't play FFVII too much, but the Materia system was always something extremely overwhelming to me. I would love more of a system like FFIX had. Train skills until you memorize them through battle and experience. To me, Materia just means "buff", nothing more.

that's what materia was in vii to an extent. say for example when you got a materia it would be tier i, but after you use it it would become stronger the more you used it. say you put a fire materia on your gear. as it got higher level it became more potent(basically fire 2 after enough usage). each piece of gear was also different.

some would have higher base stats, but less materia slots possible. some would have lower stats, but have more slots to attach materia to. the difference was in xi it was skills and in vii it was abilities. both got better after usage.