Current problem with battle materia

[RitsukoSonoda]

TBH Materia being slotted actually doesn't matter much in endgame content and not at all in anything else. So I just slot things by personal preference.

Tanks: Tenacity and Skill Speed
Physical DPS: Skills Speed and Red stuff
Magical DPS: Spell Speed and Red Stuff
Healer: Spell speed and Crit.

I don't like tea in my pie... >.>

[Renalt]

Mao uses some purples for BLMs. Mao tries get spell speed up a bits.

Just don't eat them. I know it's tempting. Purple is a delicious color.

[Renalt]

I don't like tea in my pie... >.>

Is cream ok?

[Eraden]

Just don't eat them. I know it's tempting. Purple is a delicious color.

Awwwww.......but is tasty!

[RitsukoSonoda]

Awwwww.......but is tasty!

Yes, they go great with the water from that blue flaming lake in that mountain. Only issue is ppl expect you to fill the craters that magically appear after burping afterwards.

[dspguy]

I'd like something in between where they still matter but not overwhelmingly so, and without any sort of awful overmelding system.

I can't speak much to gathering, but when it comes to crafting - melding materia matters, but only so far as the trade-off you wish to make.

Either pentameld to hit certain stats so you can HQ from NQ ingredients while using food/draughts... or pocket that money and spend more time making HQ leathers, ingots, cloths, etc so you can HQ from HQ materials. In that way, it is fairly balanced. The cost of melding the guaranteed slots and the first overmeld isn't so bad. Across one gearset, that's 17 materia for the guaranteed slots and probably 70 for the first overmeld. If a player were to use those slots wisely, they'll probably get near the max CP possible and some craft/control boosts that can help them 100% HQ the materials needed to then 100% HQ the final products.

[Ranaku]

TBH Materia being slotted actually doesn't matter much in endgame content and not at all in anything else. So I just slot things by personal preference.

Tanks: Tenacity and Skill Speed
Physical DPS: Skills Speed and Red stuff
Magical DPS: Spell Speed and Red Stuff
Healer: Spell speed and Crit.

I don't like tea in my pie... >.>

Please tell me that is a joke...it does matter...a lot.

[Deceptus]

I just give them to the doman enclave every week. There's sadly nothing else to do with them. A lot of them literally sell just barely above the price you'd get for selling them to vendors.

You save them an go to the materia transmuter on the next expansion and sell them for when the next ones are worth more.

Please tell me that is a joke...it does matter...a lot.

Poor opitmization is better than the players I see almost daily that have zero melds.

[baklava151]

The purple materia at least still see some use and I'd like if more jobs had the option to build sks/sps vs crit, like BLM. That seems to be one of the easiest ways to encourage build diversity even if it's a binary choice between crit and speed.

As far as I know for piety there's at least different tiers you can meld depending on how much of a cushion you want for MP, although I don't know how many people do that in practice but it's there at least. Tenacity on the other hand is a completely dead stat and I don't know how they'd encourage its use other than making bosses whack tanks so hard that they absolutely need it for its damage reduction, or giving it some other effect.

[Rilifane]

The purple materia at least still see some use and I'd like if more jobs had the option to build sks/sps vs crit, like BLM. That seems to be one of the easiest ways to encourage build diversity even if it's a binary choice between crit and speed.

As far as I know for piety there's at least different tiers you can meld depending on how much of a cushion you want for MP, although I don't know how many people do that in practice but it's there at least. Tenacity on the other hand is a completely dead stat and I don't know how they'd encourage its use other than making bosses whack tanks so hard that they absolutely need it for its damage reduction, or giving it some other effect.

The reason it works so well for BLM but no other class is because BLM is the only class that has 100% of its damage on the GCD.
BLM doesn't have a single oGCD flat potency hit, all of its oGCDs are GCD enhancing like Ley Lines or Sharpcast.
But if a good chunk of your dps comes from oGCDs which are unaffected by SpS/SkS then it quickly loses value compared to crit, which aways affects both.

And piety is nothing but "idiot ensurance".
It's a completely boring, practically dead stat. You either have enough to ress those idiots that keep doing the carpet RP or you don't and any excess MP at the end of the fight is just wasted secondary stay.
If anything, piety needs a rework from the ground up because right now it's the worst stat.