Materia System

[Lienn]

Seconded. I know these are desperate times, but appealing to the FFVII fans leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Indeed. When you use a name coming from FFVII you're stepping in sacred territory. If the system won't be similar i do would rather it having a different name.

I'd love to see the original materia system here tho. IMO it could be expanded to crazy limits in an MMO...imagine every piece of gear having its slots with many combinations and stuff. I would prefer this way much more than they having static secundary stats...

Also, it would make easier to convert every single stuff they decide taking from other game to this one. Lemme pop an example:

If they wanted Byakko Haidate Here...it had DEX+15 Haste+5% and Lightning+50. Assuming elemental conversion (lightning-based attributes into lightning slots, wind-based attributes into wind slots) it would just become an gear with 2 Lightning and 1 Wind slots. As Endgame stuff, add another wildcard slot (that can receive any element), link 1 lightning and 1 wind to the wildcard and that's it! Sometimes it could even end with a bouild superior to the original haidate since it would be up to the player decide what would be taking that slot...they could add, as example, instead of the 50 lightning some critical hit rate bonus, instead of haste some evasion, instead of DEX some accuracy and so on...the possibilities would be unlimited!