putting materia in upgradable equipment?

[KathYohneke]

say the current 330 gear that can be upgraded to 340, if you upgrade it to 340 do you lose the materia?

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Yes. You're not "upgrading" your gear, you're trading your old gear + token for better gear. They're different items.

[Myrkana]

yes it lsoes the materia because you're exchanging for a new piece of armor. You exchange x armor for y armor :)

[Nico Yazawa]

Yes, but you should always put materia in your gear, unless you're literally about to upgrade it right away.

Prefferably tier 6.

[Shade]

They basically throw the materia you want at you for all of SB. So there is no reason to not keep putting at the very least tier V materia in your gear.

[Nico Yazawa]

Publicado originalmente por Shade:

They basically throw the materia you want at you for all of SB. So there is no reason to not keep putting at the very least tier V materia in your gear.

I'd argue against that, well, "leveling" gear should not be wasted. You can get anywhere between 5-32K for those tier 5 materia on gear you'll throw away in 1-2 levels.

Plus, dungeons are faceroll easy, the materia won't make much difference.

[Shade]

Publicado originalmente por Koishi Komeiji:

Publicado originalmente por Shade:

They basically throw the materia you want at you for all of SB. So there is no reason to not keep putting at the very least tier V materia in your gear.

I'd argue against that, well, "leveling" gear should not be wasted. You can get anywhere between 5-32K for those tier 5 materia on gear you'll throw away in 1-2 levels.

Plus, dungeons are faceroll easy, the materia won't make much difference.

I'm talking about the 310 gear and 320/330 gear

[Shade]

Plus all of the level 70 dungeons throw tier V and VI materia at you constantly.

[Concerned Citizen]

Are you doing Savage content?
No?
Use Materia 5 and forget about Materia 6. There is no reason to use it.

Yes it's a hgue stat boost, but it's a lot of gil for no real reason.
There is absolutely no reason to use it even for EX primals. With 320 gear you should not hit enrage unless your groups has MANY WELPS.

So don't worry about it. If you are doing Savage and plan on doing savage before upgrading your gear, Put the Materia Six in and just buy more for when you either get a 340 drop or upgrade to 340.

[Nerevar]

with how easy and stupidly fast t6 materia are gotten trough hunting this time unlike 3.x series there is basicly no excuse to not slot anything with t6 no matter what. it doesnt even take 1 week of playing to stockpile 50+ t6 materia clusters from hunting alone not counting all the t6 you can buy with the seals made by doing the same thing at the same time. anything i320+ should only contain t6 this time as unlike t5 back then they are stupidly common this time. of course dont waste them for gear youll replace in 1-2 weeks as thats silly. but anything you wear longer? slot away.

[Maddin]

Aren't T6 like 60k gil? I can farm that much in less than half an hour at level 50, so I don't think there is a reason to not equip your actual important gear at high level that you will keep some time with it.

[Concerned Citizen]

Publicado originalmente por Maddin:

Aren't T6 like 60k gil? I can farm that much in less than half an hour at level 50, so I don't think there is a reason to not equip your actual important gear at high level that you will keep some time with it.

depends on the server and on the materia in question.

On my server, they run about 100k a pop

[(:AR:)-Paradox]

Publicado originalmente por Masakari:

Publicado originalmente por Maddin:

Aren't T6 like 60k gil? I can farm that much in less than half an hour at level 50, so I don't think there is a reason to not equip your actual important gear at high level that you will keep some time with it.

depends on the server and on the materia in question.

On my server, they run about 100k a pop

On mine it's about 70k, but I'd recommend just getting a tank, healer, and DPS at cap. Adventurer in need for leveling (?) roulette gets cracked cluster each time if I've been informed correctly. You can guarantee you get a materia VI of your choice per dungeon. :D