Materia

[Shougun]

Mm... I saw that as more of a design problem with the fight itself. I don't see that as the materia's problem. I DPS'ed higher than the BRDs and PLD on WHM of all jobs.

But if I can't be strong enough to make fights run more smoothly, be it tank, healing or DPS, wouldn't it just make everyone more or less the same stat wise?

No one seems to care but imho.. WHM OP!!! lol I've seen a WHM with non DD gear deal near my damage before and I wasnt taking breaks, wasnt missing my excurciate combo, and I had DD gear on. (It didnt help the monster wasnt weak to my elements though).


WHM stone on a stone weak monster will win a BLM any time in DD. Its kind of annoying actually. Who knows in ARR though.

[Skies]

Oh I don't have an issue with changing the methods of melding. I'm just curious as to why they saw the need to lower the effect of materia.

Actually, they stated only that 'stats from gear and from points allocated from levelling will be equally as important' and that was that.

[Reika]

do I have to dig up caymates post again...

Snurble here in your thread~!

I wanted to give you some details on what's being planned for stats in A Realm Reborn.

In regards to battle-related stats, it is currently possible to receive large boosts from stats on equipment, while character stats do not have as much of an effect. For example, equipping items with multiple materia melded to it will allow players to become quite powerful. In A Realm Reborn, we are planning to make adjustments so that the ratio of influence from character stats and from gear stats is 1:1. With this, having 5 materia melded onto a single item won’t elicit as large of a difference like it does currently.

Similarly in the current version, even when players add large amounts of INT and STR via equipment with multiple materia and such, it may feel like damage is not increasing and this is due to a damage range that has been set. Fundamentally, battle related stats fluctuate based on the level difference between enemies, and this is also why we are not planning to display evasion rates and other things.

For crafting, the stats in A Realm Reborn will have a greater influence than now, and for gathering, the requirements to obtain HQ items will be visible!

[HiirNoivl]

Same here.

[Uriahnool]

I hope they get materia to work on a slot system like in ffvii. I also want to be able to keep my materia and level it up over time like in ffvii. Not that they will do it, but that's how I always pictured materia would work when they mentioned materia initially for xiv.

[HamHam]

I would love SE to do as the OP suggested. Both ideas are solid. If SE implement this idea or close to it, I'm sure the community would welcome it.