Noob materia question

[KatoDog11]

I placed the Odin materia in a linked slot on my weapon with elemental materia...is it supposed to induce death on enemies? I also put poison with added effect in the linked slot right next to it. Is this a problem do they cancel eachother out because I have never seen the odin and elemental materia do anything...or am I getting this wrong?

[xXìpèéïñpöølsgødXx]

Added effect materia is what gives your weapons/armor an extra effect, not elemental. Elemental only gives your weapon the elemental damage (for example, if you put elemental + odin, you'd supposedly give your weapon the death element, NOT the added effect).
Added effect + poison should give your enemies poison status. If you had 2 added effect materias, you could cause poison and death (although it would be pointless considering enemies would die regardless of poisoning).

[xXìpèéïñpöølsgødXx]

In your case, you should pair Odin with added effect instead of elemental if you want to inflict death on your enemies.

[LilG]

Odin is non elemental so it won't do anything. Added effect lets you do a status effect depending on the materia you have linked with it.
Poison materia lets you poison enemies, time materia-will let you slow/stop targets. Odin/destruct-Instant death on targets. for example.

If you put the added effect plus odin/poison etc in your armour slot you'll be protected against that status effect.
Added effect+hades lets you hit enemies with multiple status effects at once.

[KatoDog11]

Thanks guys the help is really appreciated I played this game when I was 12 but I never realized how deep materia goes. What is the elemental materia for then? Still confused on its purpose.

[KatoDog11]

Originally posted by Vincent♥:

Added effect materia is what gives your weapons/armor an extra effect, not elemental. Elemental only gives your weapon the elemental damage (for example, if you put elemental + odin, you'd supposedly give your weapon the death element, NOT the added effect).
Added effect + poison should give your enemies poison status. If you had 2 added effect materias, you could cause poison and death (although it would be pointless considering enemies would die regardless of poisoning).

Whats the Death "element"? Like a critical hit? And the Death "added effect" is the death timer?

[xXìpèéïñpöølsgødXx]

Originally posted by KatoDog11:

Originally posted by Vincent♥:

Added effect materia is what gives your weapons/armor an extra effect, not elemental. Elemental only gives your weapon the elemental damage (for example, if you put elemental + odin, you'd supposedly give your weapon the death element, NOT the added effect).
Added effect + poison should give your enemies poison status. If you had 2 added effect materias, you could cause poison and death (although it would be pointless considering enemies would die regardless of poisoning).

Whats the Death "element"? Like a critical hit? And the Death "added effect" is the death timer?

oh there isn't actually a death element in this game
I was just using it as an example, but a bad example. a better example would be pairing something like fire materia with elemental, that would give your weapon elemental damage, so it would do more damage vs an enemy that has a weakness to fire.

The added effect that Odin gives is just an instant Death. That's what "Death" means.

[KatoDog11]

Thank you so much man! I get it now. Wow, kind of went over my head at first.

[Bogart Willey (Uses Arch BTW)]

Watch 4-8 Productions (AKA Death_Unites_us) video on materia - hes something of an authority on this gamre in perticular, his videos will teach you literally everything you need to know to be a serious Materia Master