Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I agree. Materia right now doesn’t really feel like customization, more just a sort of weird “tax” of sorts on obtaining BiS that also doesn’t matter in 99% of content because of how ilevel syncing works.

Honestly, it could be cool to erase materia slots from gear entirely in the way that we view it and replace it with a new more interactive menu that allows you to link certain types of materia to certain actions, augmenting their effects. Like maybe instead of making the range on every healer support action the size of Rhode Island, they go back to normal 15 yalm sizes, but you can connect them to “Extend Materia” that increases the range of that specific action, but you can only link “Extend Materia” to one action, and only certain actions.
Or materia that grants synergy between party members similar to the old piercing, slashing etc party buffs but that you can adjust based on party comp. *Anything* that's not just more numbers ;_;