Where to get and how to meld materia in FFXIV

After you stage as much as max and get a set of fine gear in Remaining Fantasy 14, you’ll need to meld materia on to it. Whether or not it’s in your fight job or your crafters and gatherers, materia could make a reasonably stark distinction at occasions.

You may clearly purchase materia from the marketboard, however that is an costly path to go down, and also you usually don’t need to do that except you’re looking down older materia for overmelding (extra on that beneath).

Getting common fight materia is fairly straightforward, however getting materia for crafters and gatherers is a bit tougher. Under we clarify the place to get FFXIV materia and how you can meld it to your gear.

The place to get fight materia

The best solution to get materia is thru buying and selling in cracked clusters, with several types of clusters correlating to totally different ranges of fabric. As of the Endwalker enlargement, the clusters you need are Cracked Dendroclusters and Cracked Anthoclusters. You will get these from doing the next actions:

After getting the clusters, you possibly can commerce in Dendroclusters and Anthoclusters to the materia vendor in Radz-at-Han or Outdated Sharlayan for stage 9 and 10 materia. These NPCs are marked on the in-game map as “Materia Masters” with an icon of materia.

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You can too commerce them to the Rowena’s Consultant NPCs in Ishgard, Kugane, Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, and Ul’dah.

When you nonetheless have clusters from outdated expansions, you possibly can commerce them in on the respective hub cities for these expansions. Stormblood clusters will be traded in Rhalgr’s Attain and Shadowbringers clusters will be traded in Eulmore.

You can too choose to extract materia out of your gear, in alternate for resetting your spiritbond, when you full the search “Forging the Spirit.” We don’t actually suggest doing this, although, as fight materia is fairly straightforward to search out.

There are a number of different currencies you possibly can commerce in for materia, like Sacks of Nuts from hunts, in addition to the foreign money from Variant Dungeons like Aloalo Island or the Sil’dihn Subterrane. You can too commerce PvP Wolf Marks and Arkasodara tribe foreign money for high-level materia.

The place to get crafting and gathering materia

Similar to fight materia, there’s a cracked crystal you may get to commerce in for whichever materia you need. Cracked Dendrocrystals and Cracked Anthocrystals solely come from excessive rewards for finishing Khloe’s Wondrous Tails, although.

Fortunately, there are fairly a number of different methods to get the materia with out having to commerce crystals in:

• Acquire purple crafting or gathering scrips and commerce them in for crafting or gathering materia, respectively. You may will get scrips from doing collectable turn-ins or from doing customized deliveries, for characters like Margrat or Ameliance at stage 90.
• Commerce Island’s Cowries or Seafarer’s Cowries for the materia you need in your Island Sanctuary.

As talked about above with reference to fight materia, you too can choose to extract crafting and gathering materia out of your gear, in alternate for resetting your spiritbond. Not like fight materia, that is really fairly helpful, since crafting and gathering materia can get costly. Even the low-level materia you extract has use for overmelding.

How you can meld materia in FFXIV

There are 3 ways to meld materia: you possibly can ask an NPC to do it, you are able to do it your self, or you possibly can ask a buddy to do it.

NPCs who can meld materia are in most cities, they usually’re all labeled as “Materia Melder.” They’re usually subsequent to a materia vendor NPC. Merely click on on them and choose the gear and materia you need to meld they usually’ll do it for you, straightforward as pie.

You may meld the materia your self when you unlock the Materia Melding ability from the “Waking the Spirit” aspect quest. You may meld all materia so long as you’ve got not less than one crafter (it doesn’t matter which) on the similar stage or larger than the gear you are attempting to meld. When you’re all set, simply choose the gear you need to meld after which select the meld possibility from the menu that pops up.

You can too ask a buddy to meld your materia for you, so long as they meet the above necessities, by choosing them and selecting the “request meld” possibility.

When melding, keep watch over the stats within the menu, as added stats is not going to overflow past their limits. The quantity will present up crimson for those who’re including an excessive amount of:

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How you can overmeld utilizing Superior Materia Melding

You may add much more materia to some gear, by way of Superior Materia Melding. To unlock Superior Materia Melding, you’ll want to finish the search “Melding Materia Muchly.”

You can not overmeld distinctive gear (the tools with the blue and inexperienced backgrounds), as famous by the in-game tooltips that say “Superior Melding Forbidden.” That stated, the perfect stuff to overmeld is prime quality crafted gear, making it an costly endeavor to even begin.

After getting your crafted gear, you’ll ideally need to squeeze 5 materia on to it, often called “pentamelding.” You’ll begin along with your highest stage materia after which transfer downwards, attaching decrease stage materia till all of the stats are stuffed as you need them to be:

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The extra materia you meld, the decrease probability the following one has to connect, so it does turn out to be a little bit of an RNG state of affairs. Sadly, materia that fails to meld explodes and is misplaced to the wind. Which, sure, implies that overmelding your gear will take a ton of materia and thus rack up the prices.

However when you make expert-level crafting gear, you’ll make all that gil again, proper? R-right?