Cracked Materia

[JadeGrim]

What are people doing with the cracked materia. Did you exchange it for new materia or for new currency. I'm not sure what the best option is.

[EmSix]

It's better to sell them for Tombstones, returns on melds are kinda bad now with the new changes.

[Shougun]

Does anyone know if the tokens will be made available through other means? I was wondering if these were the (or one of the) tokens Yoshida was talking about when you fail to get any items from a dungeon.

[Gokulo]

Does anyone know if the tokens will be made available through other means? I was wondering if these were the (or one of the) tokens Yoshida was talking about when you fail to get any items from a dungeon.

I'd think so, yes.

[Airget]

Does anyone know if the tokens will be made available through other means? I was wondering if these were the (or one of the) tokens Yoshida was talking about when you fail to get any items from a dungeon.

Odds are the currency being given from melded gear is most likely the same currency that is going to be distributed from end game dungeon. Much as that secondary currency for the AF+1 gear.

[tou]

You can't actually trade unsocketed cracked materia for DL tokens, can you?

[Fated]

If your cracked materia are already inside of gear, you're probably better off getting tokens unless we're talking about HQ ilvl70 crafted equipment or HQ crafting tools. If you have cracked materia IV outside of gear, I'd suggest waiting to see which materia become valuable.

[Fusionx]

Given the choices, it's definitely better to exchange everything you can to get (Allagan Tomestones of Philosophy ) Some great pieces you can with them (in addition to a few minions and misc items).

I think it's safe to assume that they'll be made available by other means just as the Mythology Tomestones, Odin and Behemoth pieces will be obtainable in order to exchange them for gear from these NPCs.

[Alkimi]

What are people doing with the cracked materia. Did you exchange it for new materia or for new currency. I'm not sure what the best option is.

Decent ones for melds appear to be crit hit, determination and vitality (for mage accessories that don't already have it on them). However personally I'd wait for people to work out the best melds for everything and then exchange them as you need.

For 1.0 gear already melded, unless it's Vanya/Gryphonskin/Darksteel gear (ie. item lv70 stuff) then it's worthless in 2.0 and you should definitely exchange it for tokens. The crafted lv70 gear has slightly lower stats than lv70 dungeon gear (Darklight) but it's more versatile due to materia.

[Keramory]

It's a shame because in the old forums I got an amazing reply when I asked a similar question.

Remember, you're exchanging the gear WITH the cracked materia for Allagan Tomestones. These can be used to buy primal tokens for primal weapons...or DL gear.
From what I was told by a player on the old forums, it was like 10-15 tomestones for a primal token, and a few hundred to a thousand for DL gear. That sounds like alot but you'd get a few thousand tomestones easily for a few double/triple meld trade-ins.

As for whats worth being bought, I'd argue don't knock off the tokens just yet. As we know there are new primals, Odin and Titan which you can probably get tokens from with this trade. You could be the first person with Odin weapons/gear before actually killing him is my uneducated guess :P

As for DL gear, I don't know if they will be dropped in 2.0 dungeons like they were in 1.0, but I'd assume so. Regardless though at the end of the day I'm sure primal weapons and DL gear will be replaced by better gear/weapons from bah and crystal tower...so don't worry too much about it. Honestly for me, I'll probably end up getting gear/weapon for my off classes and not my main.