Quote Originally Posted by hydralus View Post
I've had it with no ! symbol showing and it still breaks. Had to equip a different piece of gear, save the portrait, and then equip the original piece and save to get it working again. No idea why it happened. I didn't do anything aside from remove materia!
That's why it broke. You removed materia. Any time you change even the smallest of details of a gear set the game sees that as a different set. Regardless if the outward appearance changes or not. This even happens with gear sets. Use visor function even on something that doesn't? Game feels you've changed it. Add or remove materia? The game is going to read it as a change to your gear and pop the icon saying there's been a change on the save gear set button at the top right when viewing your equipped armor.