Materia Idea

[Ryios]

Am I the only one that feels like the current way to convert gear into materia promotes running instance undergeared? At the moment the easiest way to get gear to convert is to craft it, or get it from dungeons like Stone Sigil. Then to convert it you have to spirit bond it by wearing it and a dungeon is the fastest way to do it. People want tombs, so they wear there level 41 bracer, 42 rings, 41 neck, etc into something like Amdpar Keep or Wandering Palace....

I think this game should have a de-synthesis class that works like mining, but instead of minerals you recover materials from a piece of gear. So you would switch to the Desynthesis class, press N, put a piece of gear in the window then click on it and you'd get a window like the mining window.

Unknown: ??? (33%)
Bronze Ingot: (66%)
etc

The unknown's being how you find materia. With certain types of items yielding certain types of Materia and the level of the item determining if its I, II, or III tier materia.

Also certain items might allow getting multiple mats back, low grade items you get back an item and it's destroyed, nothing more to get out of it.

[Rydin]

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Actually a pretty good idea.... and it will never happen

[UBERHAXED]

People want tombs, so they wear there level 41 bracer, 42 rings, 41 neck, etc into something like Amdpar Keep or Wandering Palace....

Seeing as they are level 50 (running AK and WP) you should probably tell them that below lvl 45 you can only get lvl 2 materia. And if it's only a few pieces of gear (accessories even) then running with lvl 45-49 is perfectly fine, seeing as these dungeons aren't really difficult and don't require anything higher. In fact according to the intended flow by the developers (i.e. the progression of quests from the story and logs) you go straight into AK from the credits, then either WP or Ifrit to start. In case you didn't notice, the GC rank requires AK to be completed and the hunted mobs are from WP and the beast cities. So...

[Shiyo]

Wearing spiritbonding gear on trash in dungeons is intended I think. It gives the trash an actual purpose, the trash isn't a challenge, and it makes it so you don't have to pay for repairs on trash. You should be swapping to real gear on bosses though.

Materia and soulbinding is fun so I don't like your suggestions at all.

[Quesse]

Wearing spiritbonding gear on trash in dungeons is intended I think. It gives the trash an actual purpose, the trash isn't a challenge, and it makes it so you don't have to pay for repairs on trash. You should be swapping to real gear on bosses though.

Materia and soulbinding is fun so I don't like your suggestions at all.

Gear swap macros!! How I've missed you! um......

[LazyMemories]

I know this isn't related to your subject but it is for the Title.
I was wondering if there is materia already in a weapon can it be overrided basically getting rid of it and putting a new materia in?
Sorry for posting just not high enough to make my own thread.
I'm a lvl 50 WHM trying to do the Relic Quest

[Rydin]

I know this isn't related to your subject but it is for the Title.
I was wondering if there is materia already in a weapon can it be overrided basically getting rid of it and putting a new materia in?
Sorry for posting just not high enough to make my own thread.
I'm a lvl 50 WHM trying to do the Relic Quest

Yes you can purge materia

[Ryios]

Ah, I was assuming level 40+ gear could net III tier materia. So let me give you an example atm,

I buy Amber Rings on the AH for 3k and I run dungeons to spirit bond them then I convert them and I get BattleDance III, Savage Aim III etc and I keep what I want for my tank and I sell the rest on the AH for a profit.

I get that the're not awful rings to be wearing, but I just think the whole system is clunky. Trash mobs should drop items and net gil (e.g. 100+ instead of 1 to 3......) FFXI had desynthesis and this game is missing it. I think this idea would be a lot better. The whole method of acquiring materia is clunky and doesn't flow well.

If anything it exists purely to keep 50's running content.