Is Materia useless?

[neoreturn]

Materia is so expensive. are you real feel they are useless? crafting actually bring best DPS gear with best unique look into the game since they have socket there. you can melt +40 STR(10,10,7,7,4,2) into a piece of gear with two sockets. none of lvl90 gear has that attribute with 40+ STR since they don't have any socket. that's big different. if you looking for best gear,that's crafting gear with tons of materia melted in. not darklight, not artifact+1. but can your gil offer that?

[ispano]

Materia is so expensive. are you real feel they are useless? crafting actually bring best DPS gear with best unique look into the game since they have socket there. you can melt +40 STR(10,10,7,7,4,2) into a piece of gear with two sockets. none of lvl90 gear has that attribute with 40+ STR since they don't have any socket. that's big different. if you looking for best gear,that's crafting gear with tons of materia melted in. not darklight, not artifact+1. but can your gil offer that?

Except you can't do that. The stats on an item and its ilvl will make a cap on a stat. If you had a HQ ilvl 55 Lance for example, any STR Materia you try to put on it will give you ZERO.

[Zumi]

Materia is so expensive. are you real feel they are useless? crafting actually bring best DPS gear with best unique look into the game since they have socket there. you can melt +40 STR(10,10,7,7,4,2) into a piece of gear with two sockets. none of lvl90 gear has that attribute with 40+ STR since they don't have any socket. that's big different. if you looking for best gear,that's crafting gear with tons of materia melted in. not darklight, not artifact+1. but can your gil offer that?

It's not possible to put that much STR in a piece of gear that already has STR on it because it caps.

[Bibimbap]

It's not possible to put that much STR in a piece of gear that already has STR on it because it caps.

Yeah this... why the heck did they do that?

[ispano]

Yeah this... why the heck did they do that?

Basically it boils down to this. You have a group of people that want crafted to be on par, or even maybe a little better than dungeon drops, depending on work involved. Part of that is to keep crafting relevant. Most are ok with comparable. But the problem is you have a LARGER group that doesn't want to have to do ANY crafting or even deal with crafted items to get the best gear, because they then feel there's no reason to run dungeons.

That's really where the split comes from. The one group who wants crafting to actually be rather useful endgame, unlike most any other MMO. And the other group who wants it to stay on the back burner because they want to be rewarded for doing a dungeon, not do the dungeon because it's challenging or enjoyable. Could be other reasons, but most seem to boil down to that.

[Merxion]

I love the idea of Crafting being relevant but i've always been concerned with short-cutting content through the purchase of the best gear. Gil sellers are here and real and aren't going away. Until something can be done about someone 1 week into the game buying gil then buying a full set of gear. Then saying oh wow this game is boring why should I raid because I have the best gear already. This has to be balanced to allow high end crafting to be viable.