Letter from the Producer LIVE Part VI (April 3, 8:30PM JST)

[Stanislaw]

Hello Jewelcrafting.

Rewatching the video, and I picked up a couple of other interesting points of note that was not covered in the Q&A about materia:

- Materia will no longer be dependent on gear slot. Hence, it will now be possible to attach to all types of materia to all types of equipment.
- In accordance to the above change, each item will have a 'cap' to how much of a certain stat it can increase dependent on the item's level, thereby making mix-and-match more important.

[Egon]

FF6 Remake please.

[Eagleheart]

Rewatching the video, and I picked up a couple of other interesting points of note that was not covered in the Q&A about materia:

- Materia will no longer be dependent on gear slot. Hence, it will now be possible to attach to all types of materia to all types of equipment.
- In accordance to the above change, each item will have a 'cap' to how much of a certain stat it can increase dependent on the item's level, thereby making mix-and-match more important.

{Interest}

( *~*) Ugh, it's too warm to hibernate at this point... must find way to pass the time 'til phase 3.

[Horus]

will material lock to gear or be swapped out?? or break when replaced is what I wanna know.

[Izzy]

Kinda like the new materia system. It's like a mixture of Jewelcrafting from WoW, and the old materia system.

[xopher]

I'm sure they will not allow materia to be removed. If they're making everything bind on spiritbond to keep the economy moving, I'm sure they'll do the same with materia.

[Kaiyoko]

I'm sure they will not allow materia to be removed. If they're making everything bind on spiritbond to keep the economy moving, I'm sure they'll do the same with materia.

You could purge materia in 1.0 if that's what you're meaning. I would assume you'd still be able to do the same.

[xopher]

I meant removing it without destroying it.

[Kaiyoko]

I meant removing it without destroying it.

Ah then no lol. I also don't think you could remove 1 materia from a double+ meld. It just takes off all them ~_~

[Waraji]

Ah then no lol. I also don't think you could remove 1 materia from a double+ meld. It just takes off all them ~_~

I also don't believe they Should allow you to keep materia you purge. Leads to way too much materia on the market, and would destroy healthy supply/demand mechanics. We're already getting a break by keeping equipment if forbidden meld doesn't work, which is the standard for such systems in other MMO's.

I'd also prefer there be some kind of Horadric Cube system for existing materia in order to purge most of the Low-Tier / Useless materia. The quantity would be irrelevant or degree of success, as long as there is something there to do so.

[Horus]

But now the material would be bound to the character? If equip to a bound item that is.

[Raldo]

Makes you wonder if they're open to socketing non-crafted stuff now, albeit with fewer sockets than crafted gear.

[Stanislaw]

Makes you wonder if they're open to socketing non-crafted stuff now, albeit with fewer sockets than crafted gear.

My guess is yes, although I highly doubt they'll allow players to 'oversocket', while the Crafted gears can.

[Kaiyoko]

Makes you wonder if they're open to socketing non-crafted stuff now, albeit with fewer sockets than crafted gear.

There were a few pieces in 1.0 that were non crafted and you could socket, might have been only the sentinel stuff, but if I'm wrong someone else can correct me.

[Raldo]

Ah, you are correct; I had forgotten about those. Sentinel gear was meldable (except pants, wtf?), and in later patches they also allowed you to meld onto the Harlequin/Buccaneer sets. They were generally exceptions to the rule, though.

[miokomioko]

No in-game beastiary

breaks my heart...

Does anyone have a link to a recording of the stream?

[Stanislaw]

breaks my heart...

They didn't actually outright say this. They only said that an in-game wiki (as well as Guild/Linkshell Finder) cannot be done in the Live Letter, but the lodestone and the mobiles apps will fill in these blanks. I'm fairly certain they mentioned something along the lines of adding extra features to the Hunting Log to make it look like a sort-of-a bestiary before as well.

Does anyone have a link to a recording of the stream?

Only niconico ones for now:

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20522677 (1/6)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20523006 (2/6)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20523218 (3/6)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20523458 (4/6)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20523694 (5/6)
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20523940 (6/6)

[Takiwaki]

[Stanislaw]

video

One-upped, yet again!

By the way, the above only has the 2nd half.

First half:

[miokomioko]

Thanks (both of you)!

That nostalgia montage of Yoshi looking varied amounts of annoyed as Wada showed off housing-related concept art cracked me up.