Materia meld? Follow

I didn't play much of 1.0 and have no idea how materia worked. But the way many people talk about it, it sounds like teras scroll mechanic in which had horrible rng and made me quit due to wasteing all my gold trying to get +12. Can someone explain how it works in ffxiv assuming they keep it somewhat the same this time around.

I guess it's more like nobody wants to answer questions that are explained in detail on the official lodestone page.
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/guide/materia01.html

You're welcome. Just remember that the system will change. That much was already announced.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/materia/guide.php
Keep in mind that whatever you read here is all going to change in 2.0. It was a system that was kind of deep, but also tedious. From my understanding it was easy to get tier III materia slotted. But after that you had to spend lots of time and money to attempt tier 4 or 5.

The materia system is going to be revamped to be less tedious like the crafting system has become, but I have no idea about how it will be done. The depth argument will be made about if 1.0 or 2.0 is more deep just as people argued that the first iteration of crafting classes was deeper while the other side argued it was tedious. But regardless, these changes are coming.

I want to know if materia is going to be destructable similar to TERA crystals. I didn't want a death penalty. But if I have to choose between gear breaking completely or regaining experience. I would probably choose the death penalty since it only cost time and not money.

Materia melding at the end of 2.0 basically was it's own economy.Certain materials to create spiritbond items, the selling of items for people to grind and the materia itself.After you got the easy achievements it was all about making endless gil from supporting grinders trying to make the good materia. To go pass 2 or 3 melds had an insane failure rate for item that could cost 300k each.