Quote Originally Posted by GabbaGabba View Post
it would be interesting to see them implement weapons that have crappy stats on em at lv50 and once u get 100% attachment points, u can turn it into a beastly materia. kinda like the lv72 BCNM r/ex weapons that had a latent effect on em. their stats sucked at first but after using it for a while, it unlocks the latent and becomes a really really good endgame weapon
I think that may be the point to weapons converting into materia. It's a nice progression system that rewards us for using weapons for a long time. Also a bit of a nostalgia effect you could technically turn all of your old weapons into materia to bring them along with the next weapon you upgrade so you could almost have a legacy materia that was the culmination of your entire leveling process.

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I also hope weapons and armour do dissapear when converted to materia, there needs to be some form of consumption to help crafters stay in a dynamic market instead of it slowly stagnating from saturation.