Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
Dangerous move to make the rate-limiting step of the process something a shard bot can do (wear out a weapon with use then try to hq materia from it). Still, sounds reasonable.
Along the same lines, will it be the case where people will be using weapons and wearing armor just for creating Materia, instead of using the best equipment/weapons available?

Sounds like a time sink, which may or may not be a good thing.

Once again, this really will depend on SE executes and implements this.