Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
Is that right? Turning your beloved items into materia sounds kinda odd. That's what I kinda thought he was saying at first, but I thought it would make sense that hes saying you can customize your favorite items with magic stones to change them, since that would basically be what materia is all about.

I did my own translation of that paragraph here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ll=1#post82142
Yep, that's definitely a translation mishap, it's a socketing system.