Materia System

[Amineri]

Question:

Will jewelry items be able to have materia attached? If so, does that mean the jewelry can also be converted in materia? If not, will this not further marginalize the usefulness of jewelry?

Also, if jewelry can have materia attached, what mechanism brings into balance using three high-rank jewelry pieces (with three pieces of materia) vs six low-rank jewelry pieces (with six pieces of materia)?

[origamikitsune]

Question:

Will jewelry items be able to have materia attached? If so, does that mean the jewelry can also be converted in materia? If not, will this not further marginalize the usefulness of jewelry?

Also, if jewelry can have materia attached, what mechanism brings into balance using three high-rank jewelry pieces (with three pieces of materia) vs six low-rank jewelry pieces (with six pieces of materia)?

Believe they said they were removing slot cost at some point. One of the dev posts somewhere mentioned it.

Some suggestions and concerns:
Like others, I am worried about being R50 on the job I love, going to all the effort to make all the gear I really want, and then have it marginalized by having to wear other gear to get my own materia. I enjoy being self sufficient wherever possibly, and helping others that do not have the desire to be so, but I don't want to have to sacrifice my own ability to perform well. If I level a DoL and DoH to use materia, why should I have to essentially nerf/gimp my DoW/DoM to get my materia?

I am also worried about the possibility of better stats on gear giving better materia. This has not been said to be the case, but I would think it is one possibility that at the very least the dev team already considered. The problem with this is that NM gear, which is currently the best gear in the game (arguably) could become the claim fest that it was in 11.