Is it worth it?
Does anyone use materia on low level crafting wear?
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I've been levelling SMN and BLM together, using the same gear for each. Every 5 levels, after the job quest, I craft/buy all HQ gear and meld cheap materia onto it. Tier 1 and 2 materia are so cheap they're almost free, and if I have any hanging around it's not really worth the 200 gil to NPC them. I don't try to min-max it, just slap on some useful boosts to carry me through the next 5 levels with a bit more ease.
Same thing with crafting gear. If you've got the materia from converting the previous set, just as well use them on the next one.
Edited, Oct 7th 2014 12:48pm by Laverda
Same thing with crafting gear. If you've got the materia from converting the previous set, just as well use them on the next one.
Edited, Oct 7th 2014 12:48pm by Laverda
For personal use, like Laverda, yes.
For stuff I'm throwing on the AH, no. Since I only sell HQ things, people are already getting a premium product. If they want any more value added, they can look up the crafter name on the item they just bought and ask them.
For stuff I'm throwing on the AH, no. Since I only sell HQ things, people are already getting a premium product. If they want any more value added, they can look up the crafter name on the item they just bought and ask them.
The low level materia are very important for crafters and gatherers who are level 50 and need to cap control or craftsmanship, gathering, etc on their gear so that they can reliably craft the things they need to help them get the gear they need to reliably craft 3 star items.
Otherwise, they are used by people in the first tiers of building stats on their novus weapons.
So it is definitely worth it to desynth your old armor for low level jobs when you upgrade. You can make a decent return off the auction house if you get a materia that is in demand.
Otherwise, they are used by people in the first tiers of building stats on their novus weapons.
So it is definitely worth it to desynth your old armor for low level jobs when you upgrade. You can make a decent return off the auction house if you get a materia that is in demand.
I never used materia in my gear early level.
I don't really see the point in it -- you can oftentimes get 4-7k gil out of a Grade 1 materia depending on which one, and the ones that don't sell (the elemental materia for example) are nearly worthless anyways. Who cares about GP+1, for example? There's a reason why they are only worth 300g on the MB.
For DoW/DoM classes, oftentimes the stat you REALLY want, is already maxed out or almost maxed out. If you're a healer... good luck fitting a MND materia on your gear that already has MND (it'll just go red and give you nothing at all), for example. Lots of times, said gear also has other stats that have other things you probably wanted, again, it'll just go red and give you nothing because your gear is already maxed on that stat.
You might find some fringe case where maybe you could squeeze a spell speed or something on your healer, but meh. The materia are so under-powered that the difference is not going to be noticed whatsoever Pre-50.
For crafting/gathering classes, I routinely HQ stuff in my 30s as it is and I'm wearing NQ or outdated gear already. Why would I care about Materia in my gear if I'm using a pair of gloves that is 10 levels outdated?
My BTN right now is using an axe that is ~8 levels outdated and a scythe that is about ~6 levels outdated, both HQs. I'm 38 and I have 13% HQ and 81% success with harvesting stuff out of Lv40 nodes. That is *easily* good enough to get me 10 HQs within 40-50 attempts on average for the daily GC turnin. That's not to mention the rest of my clothes that are 5-10 levels out of date, too.
Materia doesn't make enough of a difference to cover the costs Pre-50.
Now, once you get 50 and you're trying to get into Star crafting, or if you want to get into Coil or trying to do your Relic weapon, then yes. You want the materia.
Pre-50?
Just not enough difference to notice or care. Far too expensive, half of the materia you'd want you can't even use because of the insanely low "caps" on items (if an item has a stat, more than likely you can't get any more of that same stat on it). There are fringe cases like adding STR to mining gear to get the Attempts+1 sooner, but meh. Is that really worth it Pre-50? I don't think it is.
I don't really see the point in it -- you can oftentimes get 4-7k gil out of a Grade 1 materia depending on which one, and the ones that don't sell (the elemental materia for example) are nearly worthless anyways. Who cares about GP+1, for example? There's a reason why they are only worth 300g on the MB.
For DoW/DoM classes, oftentimes the stat you REALLY want, is already maxed out or almost maxed out. If you're a healer... good luck fitting a MND materia on your gear that already has MND (it'll just go red and give you nothing at all), for example. Lots of times, said gear also has other stats that have other things you probably wanted, again, it'll just go red and give you nothing because your gear is already maxed on that stat.
You might find some fringe case where maybe you could squeeze a spell speed or something on your healer, but meh. The materia are so under-powered that the difference is not going to be noticed whatsoever Pre-50.
For crafting/gathering classes, I routinely HQ stuff in my 30s as it is and I'm wearing NQ or outdated gear already. Why would I care about Materia in my gear if I'm using a pair of gloves that is 10 levels outdated?
My BTN right now is using an axe that is ~8 levels outdated and a scythe that is about ~6 levels outdated, both HQs. I'm 38 and I have 13% HQ and 81% success with harvesting stuff out of Lv40 nodes. That is *easily* good enough to get me 10 HQs within 40-50 attempts on average for the daily GC turnin. That's not to mention the rest of my clothes that are 5-10 levels out of date, too.
Materia doesn't make enough of a difference to cover the costs Pre-50.
Now, once you get 50 and you're trying to get into Star crafting, or if you want to get into Coil or trying to do your Relic weapon, then yes. You want the materia.
Pre-50?
Just not enough difference to notice or care. Far too expensive, half of the materia you'd want you can't even use because of the insanely low "caps" on items (if an item has a stat, more than likely you can't get any more of that same stat on it). There are fringe cases like adding STR to mining gear to get the Attempts+1 sooner, but meh. Is that really worth it Pre-50? I don't think it is.
It makes you feel better...really, use it for anti rage at those failures. 
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If you're got materia that can't be used for DoH/DoL or novus stuff (basically, all stat materia except for piety, and all the resistance materia, and skillspeed because lolskillspeed), pretty much all you can do with it (other than maybe sell it for peanuts) is to either gather 5 and try your luck to transmute something better, or slap it into stuff to make it spiritbond faster.
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