Materia and Soulbinding

[Whippet]

How do I add sockets to a piece of gear? Say a piece has 2 spots for materia and I want to add 2 more sockets. How do I do that? Will adding the extra sockets risk me losing the whole piece of gear or just the materia I'm trying to add?

You can affix max 5 materia to an item. The number of slots of materia an Item has is the number of materia you can 100% it then it becomes forbidden materia.

Exemple a helmet has 2 slot, then the first 2 materia will be 100% success if you try more they have a chance to fail. But in ARR if you fail a meld you only loose the materia and the matter you do not loose the gear anymore

Also note you need at least 1 materia slot to be able to affix materia
Also please not that each gear got max stats so before melding, make sure that the materia will be used as his full potential

[HiirNoivl]

Right, you can't add sockets to gear. But you can take a chance and attach more materia than the slots you have. Please keep in mind, the gear's native stats are capped pretty low. So you want to try to do a forbidden meld with something that isn't on the gear already.

[SonRyo21]

Thanks for all the answers I have been wondering about Materia and I figured someone already asked a question about it so I searched it and here I am. I am glad to know the forums has such polite and helpful people.

[Lava]

Some helpful advice here.

Thanks!

[Bixby]

So just to make sure I'm getting this right, any class can create materia from spirit bound gear once the quest is complete?

It's only affixing materia that requires a crafting class (at 19+)?

[Whippet]

So just to make sure I'm getting this right, any class can create materia from spirit bound gear once the quest is complete?

It's only affixing materia that requires a crafting class (at 19+)?

correct but here is the precision

1) Once you unlock the convert quest it is true that ANY class can convert gear to materia (when the spiritbond is at 100%)

2) Once you unlock to melding abilities only certain class can meld materia to gear let's take this item per exemple

http://xivdb.com/?item/2938/Gryphonskin-Bandana

Since it's crafted by a Leatherworker, only a Leatherworker can meld materia into that gear

[inc77]

Ah, I sold all my old 100% spirit-bonded gear so far

[GhostlySyn]

how do you know the max stats each gear can have? per its level?
or should i ask what is the math behind it..?

[Skies]

how do you know the max stats each gear can have? per its level?
or should i ask what is the math behind it..?

Max attributes is based on item level, yes.
What are it's max stats right now is... Well, it is a mystery!

[hyko]

I was wondering about materia as well so thank you for all the information posted here. Was really helpful.

Looks like I better start working on my crafting classes