Materia System

[zaviermhigo]

Shut up, Navi. :P

LOL, sorry I actually did laugh out loud, flash backs to ocarina of time as a kid. N64, good times.

or and to Cairdeas I thought that too (earth,ice, water = umbral, fire,wind,lighting=astral for those who don't know), recently people have been saying all elements have umbral and astral qualities :/ so I'm not sure who to believe until SE tells us for sure, which may be never, so 2nd best I'll take some data on it, you know someone somewhere has a excel doc about it.

[AuctionGirl]

Materia should be inter-changeable with any weapon/armor at anytime, so your goal in the game is to collect the best materia for your weapons/armor and find the best mixes of those materia, Although materia shouldn't be an inventory slot, but kept in its own materia items, and duplicates cannot be gotten, or traded. This makes you earn these materia and gather them and build your own weapons/armor.

Each ranked item should have at least 1 materia fitting and who knows the limit based on the future of the game, but maybe 1 materia can be inserted per 10 optimal ranks. This allows for more combination's to get different results. This does open the door for spells, abilities, and many other items just by combination's or materia and/or a materia itself. I do think this would give more strategy to the game and promote collecting of materia and building your own style of play.

[Neptune]

Also an interesting thing about materia is that they were growing as you earned points with them equipped.

Yeah materia is a complete system. Materia isn't about stat bonuses.

[Argh]

sounds like another WoW-clone-thingy. it's Wow's GEM system.

[Dreamer]

sounds like another WoW-clone-thingy. it's Wow's GEM system.

You do realize that WoW wasn't the first to implement these types of systems, right?

[zaviermhigo]

To some people if it wasn't in XI it was in WoW even though i can name probably 20 rpgs that used this before even Warcraft was a game, yeah just warcraft, not WoW. The thing about WoW is they have autocraft, we have manual craft, crafters is a whole class viable to the economy (supposedly), so with this system people will augment their gear through crafters and not stupid magian moogle nm tier quests lol

[Cairdeas]

sounds like another WoW-clone-thingy. it's Wow's GEM system.

People who don't know, don't know.

FFVII had the Materia System before Diablo II had its Socket system which is where WoW evolved its system from.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

When i hear MATERIA, i can only imagine it by immersion wise, is a stone, magic stones that was gathered by the DoL classes as a Material to be fuse with existing equipments to enchants it characteristic self.

There been a lot of this system not only on WoW, but before WoW itself and after WoW itself. So there is not need to bicker who and what make it first or what ever, because is pointless to discuss so in the first, just the important part is how it is IMPLEMENTED and THE WAY BEING FUSED, how it called is also important as well.

IMO; is great to see they used term name "Materia System"; why? Well there chocobo, cid, airships, sometime there other stuff that you might not notice where actually found from older Final Fantasy games; or better yet reference from other SE titles games(or SQ).

Anyway, is not that there many game titled use the named Materia stones, FF Tactics have one, and originated from FF7... . Come on.... they're making this for the fans~~~~~~~~~ what more to have anything related for "us" so called fans for once??? :C we need love too... T_T

[Aion]

if they want originality they can cald it Aetheria System... which includes Aether Stone/Rune/Orb/Crystal/Materia

[Rydin]

if they want originality they can cald it Aetheria System... which includes Aether Stone/Rune/Orb/Crystal/Materia

They can call it "Aetheritis"
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