Materia System

[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.