Materia System

[1889]

HQ gear spiritbonds 50% faster. Vendors don't sell HQ.

Buying from vendors also sucks gil out of the economy faster than the markets ever could.

So, buying from vendors not only wastes your time, but also makes us all much more poor in the long run. GG.

It's 25% faster.

[Nihility]

quicktongue III was 80k a pop on behemoth so i powered through goldsmith using leves in a few days time and now i make jewelery that i spirit bond in speed runs and am on the selling end of materia

how easy or difficult you want your life to be is in your own hands

[complexxL9]

This is stupid imo. If you want crafters to be useful why not let them craft the material itself, why do we need to gimp our selves with crappy gear and grind till our eyes bleed.
It would make much more sense if you could bring the gear from wp/ak to crafter and then he tries to convert it to materia via UI similar to "request melding", not vice versa (buying gear from crafter and converting yourself).

This would solve 2 problems:
1. No more grinding while in crappy gear. Go and kill those monsters dressed in your shiny stuff.
2. Getting stuff in AK/WP would not be as pointless as now with non-sellable, non-convertable loot.