Make Crafting and Gathering Materia easier to access.

[AlaineIV]

I don't mind how to get the Crafting and Gathering Materia as it is, but 500 for 1 XII materia and i think 300 purple for XI's is a bit over the top on the price. Meanwhile Combat Materia drops like candy compared to the other side. Just make it easier to gain access to the Crafting and Gathering Materia's. I.E add them ot the island store, have a chance to get them while gathering, etc.

Right now the cost of Materia is painful.

[alfarini]

pentameld lvl 100 dol/doh gear and farm spirit bond. its not hard. you dont even need to penta with correct materia. just put random ones in after the free meld spots. use superior bond potions for +6 and the FC buff if you can. combat is earned through the same way and quests, your typically doing more combat related quests than dol/doh so it gives you free level 11 materia. doing it this way is free basically just costs time.

[Themarvin]

I don't mind how to get the Crafting and Gathering Materia as it is, but 500 for 1 XII materia and i think 300 purple for XI's is a bit over the top on the price. Meanwhile Combat Materia drops like candy compared to the other side. Just make it easier to gain access to the Crafting and Gathering Materia's. I.E add them ot the island store, have a chance to get them while gathering, etc.

Right now the cost of Materia is painful.

Transmutation fixes that and to get loads of materia, join the hunt, so you can get bunches of materia that what you can have a chance to transmute into gatherer or crafter materia.

It is really easy, but it require an effort somewhat.

[hydralus]

If 170k a materia is too much, you probably don't gather/craft enough to bother having the best gear. Just use the last tier's X/IX's. You can easily reach new requirements with that.

[Venarius]

In what world is getting materia hard? Lmao, did they roll back to HW or early SB with one materia being 5m+?

[Raven2014]

These days Materia is more than 100 times cheaper and at least 20 times easier to get than they used to be (and no, I'm not being dramatic or hyperbolic). If this is not accessible enough for you, than it will never be accessible enough unless it started raining down from the sky (like combat materia do).

[Kaurhz]

Disagree.

If anything it is far too lenient, IMO. Back in the days of HW, the only way you were getting any of the good materia (Grade V), was by sitting there crafting Camphor for days in the Carbonweave gear, only to then need to craft yourself another set, and another after that. What the game offers now is a very cheap and relaxing option.

XII and XI melds are a luxury and not a requirement. The needed stats to do anything in this game with crafting and gathering are much lower.

[TaleraRistain]

It would be nice to add them to the island so we have a reason to keep up on that.

[Bonoki]

I wholeheartedly agree with OP, especially since I've pentamelded across multiple characters. The opposing comments appear driven by a nostalgic longing for inflated prices, motivated purely by personal profit and a "back in my day" mentality.

[Yeems]

Just because it used to be "way harder" doesn't mean it has to be hard/annoying now. It's such a non-argument to say "84 years ago it took even longer" because OP's point wasn't that it's never been harder, it's that they find it too tedious and expensive now.
As was suggested, something like adding newer materia to the Island Sanctuary purchase pool would already help a lot, just by adding an additional way to get the materia, rather than just spending days crafting the same collectable over and over, or hoping for some good luck from transmutations.

I don't mind the grind too much, but spending so much time on overmelding DoL and DoH multiple times per expansion does get extremely boring, so I'd appreciate some extra ways to get materia.