Materia System

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Thank you for the excellent clarification!

It still leaves me wondering whether "weapons" is also literal, or whether it includes tools. In other words, is this system only for the combat classes, or do crafters and gatherers create materia as well?

edit: I understand that crafters attach materia, and that gatherers harvest the catalyst that allows the materia to be attached. My reference to "this system" was referring to the system of creating materia, not the entire materia system.

I can't really point you to the exact statement but I'm fairly sure it was mentioned that only DoW and DoM classes are responsible for the creation of materia. I could be wrong but as far as I understand it that's the way it'll work.

Also thanks for the clarification and that kind of addresses the issues I mentioned in my last post. I still would love to see a lot of variety amongst the materia to avoid people just spitting out tons of armor X to get materia Y that gives the best stat sets. Adding in several factors to make crafting materia almost an art would be wonderful imo.