Materia Reborn

[Reika]

Q11: How will the materia system change in ARR?

A11: Basically, there won't be too many changes. In the current version, there are fluctuations in the resulting stats for materia, but in ARR these fluctuations will be removed. The rate for multiple melding will be higher than it is currently, and the materia system as a whole will be made more casual.

Got 77 likes so far, so must have a great overall approval, including mine. Bout time they get rid of the stat fluctuations, and with the decrease in effect of materia stat increases on the player, increase in multi-meld success rate to compisate, which would also make that nasty Relic weapon double meld less of of an issue, but only less (If that will even still be part of the relic quest).

Especially since a lot of gear that dropped that wasn't considered 'better' than a double meld item was on a much much lower drop rate than the meld success rate.

I still think they need to equalize the rarity of materias, the base ones like Mind vs Touch of Rage, not the newer ones like evenflow, and talk about how and if resistance materia would play a bigger role in ARR.