Where to get Materia in FFXIV and how to merge and overmix them

After reaching the maximum level and equipping good equipment Final Fantasy 14you will want to merge matter keep going. No matter if it’s for you Battle job or yours Handyman And CollectorMateria can sometimes make a pretty big difference.

Of course, you can purchase Materia from the Marketplace, but that’s an expensive route, and you usually don’t want to do that unless you’re looking for older Materia to remelt (more on that below).

Getting regular combat materials is pretty easy, but getting materials for crafters and collectors is a little more difficult. Below we explain where to get FFXIV Materia and how to fuse them with your equipment.

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Where do you get combat materials?

The easiest way to get matter is by trading cracked clusters, with different types of clusters correlating to different material levels. From then on Endwalker Extension, the desired clusters are Cracked dendroclusters And Broken anthoclusters. You can get these through the following activities:

Once you have the clusters, you can trade Dendroclusters and Anthoclusters to the Material Merchant Radz-and-Han or Old Sharlayan for level 9 and 10 Materia. These NPCs are shown on the in-game map as “Materia Master” with a Materia symbol.

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You can also trade them to Rowena’s representative NPCs in Ishgard, Kugane, Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, and Ul’dah.

If you still have clusters of old expansions, you can exchange them for these expansions in the respective hub cities. Stormblood Clusters can be traded in Rhalgr’s Reach and Shadowbringer Clusters can be traded in Eulmore.

You can also choose to extract Materia from your gear in exchange for resetting your Spirit Bond once you complete the quest.Forge the mind.” However, we don’t really recommend this as combat materials are fairly easy to find.

There are a few other currencies you can exchange for Materia, such as sacks of nuts from hunts, as well as currency from variant dungeons like Aloalo Island or the Sil’dihn Subplane. You can also exchange PvP Wolf Tokens and Arkasodara Tribe Currency for high-level Materia.

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Where to craft and collect materials

Just like with battle materia, there is a cracked crystal that you can exchange for the materia you want. Broken dendrocrystals And Broken anthocrystals However, there are only high rewards for completing Khloe’s Miraculous Tails.

Luckily, there are a few other ways to get the Materia without having to trade crystals:

• Collect Purple craft or gathering tickets and exchange them for crafting or collecting materia. For characters like Margrat or Ameliance at level 90, you can obtain scrips by turning in collectibles or through individual deliveries.
• trade The island’s cowrie shells or Sailor cowries for the materia you want in your island sanctuary.

As mentioned above regarding combat materia, you can also extract crafting and gathering materia from your equipment in exchange for resetting your spirit bond. Unlike combat materials, this is actually quite useful, as crafting and gathering materials can be expensive. Even the low-level materia you extract can be used to overmelt.

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How to Fuse Materia in FFXIV

There are three ways to fuse Materia: you can ask an NPC to do it, you can do it yourself, or you can ask a friend to do it.

NPCs that can fuse materia can be found in most cities and they are all marked with “Matter Reporter.” They are usually next to a Materia Trader NPC. Just click on it and select the equipment and materia you want to fuse and it will do it for you with ease.

You can smelt the materia yourself once you have the “Materia Melding” skill in the “Awaken the spirit” Side quest. You can fuse all Materia as long as you have At least one craftsman (no matter which one) of the same or higher level than the equipment you want to fuse. Once you’re done, simply select the gear you want to report and then select the “Report” option from the menu that appears.

You can also ask a buddy to report your Materia for you, provided they meet the above requirements, by selecting them and selecting the “Request Report” option.

When reporting, keep an eye on the stats in the menu as added stats will not go beyond their limits. The number turns red if you add too much:

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How to Overfuse with Advanced Materia Melding

You can add even more Materia to some pieces of equipment by Advanced Materia Blending. To unlock Advanced Materia Melding, you must complete the quest “Merge materia a lot.”

You cannot over-fuse unique gear (the gear with the blue and green backgrounds), as stated in the in-game tooltips that say “Advanced Fusing Prohibited”. That said, the best stuff to melt over is high quality manufactured equipmentwhich makes it an expensive endeavor to even begin with.

Once you have your crafted gear, you’ll ideally want to squeeze five Materia onto it, known as “Pentamelding.” You start with your highest Materia level and then move down adding lower Materia levels until all the stats are filled the way you want them:

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The more Materia you fuse, the less likely the next one is to attach, so it becomes a bit of an RNG situation. Unfortunately, Materia that cannot be fused explodes and is lost to the wind. Which means that over-melting your equipment requires a lot of materials and therefore increases the costs.

But once you craft expert-level crafting gear, you get all the gil back, right? R-right?