Better Materia System

[Shougun]

I agree with some of the OP ideas.

Personally I feel Materia is in FFXIV only in name. It is missing that impact like it has in FFVII. Materia should grow while equipped and the stats should get better as it levels.

Yes! Materia is so lame here - very poorly treated. Not epic at all. I wish to feel huge pride having any kind of powerful materia, I will never have that with the current system in place.

I shortly wrote about materia getting a sort of spirit bound themselves where their stats are boosted and they can be used as a powerful ingredient to make a higher tier materia. This keeps materia market flooding down (consuming materia) and also makes them a bond with you. I was considering that maybe you could spirit bound them many times to get them to evolve by themselves but I dont want the market to be ruined because of it.

What do you think? I'd also like it if they could evolve through stages, but without making many many many spirit bound levels* on a materia I think it would make the materia market devalued.
*Probably just call it leveling up the materia rather then spirit bound on a materia.