Quote Originally Posted by Sindele View Post
Unless there's precedent I can't think of for something like that already functioning in game, that'd be a significantly taller order than you might think it is. It's one thing to have an item step up from one amount of slots to another with no respect for its previous state, but just adding a third slot to an existing item without blowing up the item and creating a new one in its place would be a pretty significant systems-level change.. and with that comes a whole lot of QA.
I mean they can just put it in the shop, duplicate the item and call it "Augmented Ascendant X of X" and make it have three materia slots and use the same model, it's quite literally just adding entries to their database. Takes literal minutes to make such an item.

Then again they managed to screw up even basic database management with the Diadochos bug earlier this patch so lmao, can't expect much from them.