News tip FF7 Rebirth Materias: Where to find them and how to manage them as best as possible?

News tip FF7 Rebirth Materias: Where to find them and how to manage them as best as possible?

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The different types of materia in FF7 Rebirth

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth despite using the excellent material system introduced in Final Fantasy VII Remake, human memory is not infallible, and it is always good to take a look at the tutorials offered by the game to remember how it works. Each weapon and accessory has material slots which you can arrange as you wish for each of the 7 characters of your team (you can press the pad to display all character equipment on the same screen and swap materials from one character to another). It exists 5 different types of materialsto know :

• Green materials: These are magic materia which include offensive spells (Fire, Gravity, Benefit, etc.) and support spells (Heal, Protection, Resurrection, etc.).
• Blue materials: These are support materials which allow you to boost other types of materials (Area of ​​effect, Resistance to alterations, increased CP, etc.).
• Yellow materials: These are skill materials that grant unique abilities to your characters (Analysis, Prayer, Flight, etc.).
• Purple materials: These are independent materials which allow you to boost the actions and statistics of your characters (Anticipatory attack, Reinforced guard, increased HP, etc.)
• Red materials: These are summoning materials that allow you to obtain the help of very powerful magical creatures called Espers (Ifrit, Shiva, Titan, etc.).

Summary of the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth walkthrough

Material management in FF7 Rebirth

The narration will lead you to play with all possible combinations of characters, so we strongly advise you to equip them all as best as possible to make your life easier during boss fights with a team composition you’re not used to.

For example, it is good to buy enough Basic Elemental Spell Materials (Fire, Lightning, Ice, and Wind) to cover any eventuality, but know that you can use the Codex of your characters to unlock basic skills which will not cost you any MP and which do not require you to have the associated material to be used. Likewise, you can equip Pendantérias linked to spells for which you do not have the materia (there are most often in the Mog Shops).

That said, still consider distributing recovery spells (Care, Remedies, Resurrection) and tactical spells (Annihilation, Protection, Venue, etc.) to most of your characters to avoid drawing too much from your items and especially to be able to gain the advantage in combat. And above all, think carefully to assign the best Esper possible to your characters, because summon materials influence their stats. You can use them to compensate for a lack in one stat or another, or on the contrary to increase a stat that is already well advanced.

Where to find materia in FF7 Rebirth?

You will start the adventure with a few materia in your possession, but you will quickly have to find others if you want to hold out against the many enemies you will encounter. Typically, you will find them in the following places:

• Shops: Each village offers weapon and resource shops, and you will find new materia with each advancement in the scenario.
• Distributors: the vending machines next to the rest benches will allow you to purchase not only items and accessories, but also a good number of materials.
• Dungeons: materia are rare in the open world (but there are some, like in the craters south of Juno and at the port to the west of Kalm), but you are almost certain to find them in areas with many enemies, and especially bosses. Search the surroundings carefully when you enter an action phase, you will find many rewards in the setting.

However, you can also unlock them not only by completing crawl reports For Chadley, since these earn you points that you can spend to buy materials, but also by participating in the challenges of the combat simulator. You can collect summon materials by defeating the different Espers, but also rather rare materials by taking part in other challenges offered by Chadley.

The secrets of combining materia

You’ve probably already noticed, but some material slots are linked together. This means that you can associate one materia with another, and more precisely a green magic materia with a blue support material. For example, you can combine Care has Area of ​​effect to heal the entire group with a single spell rather than chaining 3 spells together and therefore wasting time and ATB bars for nothing. Likewise, you can use strengthening spells like Protection with Area of ​​effectand even offensive spells like Venefice to poison all your enemies in one fell swoop.

You are free to make the combos you like, provided of course that connected materials shine, which will indicate that the suit is working properly. The possibilities are numerous and depend not only on your play style, but also on the strengths and weaknesses of your characters. For example, you will have more success granting magic bonuses to Aerith and attack bonuses to Tifa.