Quote Originally Posted by Sonic_the_Hedgehog View Post
Huh? The gatherers are the ones that collect the catalysts, without the gatherers there would be no way to join the materia with the items.
So wait? the way I read it was you could "Grow" a materia in an equipment just from using the equipment itself or you could force one into it with crafting. (no fail rate.) But to get two materia into a equipment you have to do a special system which has a chance to fail?