MAX MATERIA Guide~ Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis 

Thank you everyone for all the support recently on the videos I appreciate all the feedback! Catch my live streams here: twitch.tv/smellyoctopus Correction! Materia can jump more than 1 star rarity when upgrading. So a 3 star can turn into a 5 star.

Good luck on materia rolls everyone!

Best guide out there, the way you explain things is clean af! Thanks for the guide!

I was about to open youtube and search abt materia guides. Then your video got recommended on my start screen. You are really a life saver. Best ever crisis creator. Thanks for all the effort and your videos man

You made all of this make so much more sense, thank you!!

It's really nice to be able to lock materia and stuff, but one feature I would *really* like would be the ability to mark "trash" materia, so you can easily know at a glance that you've already determined this materia can be sold or used as upgrade fodder. It's cumbersome right now to have to inspect each one when you're in the Enhance or Sell screens to remind yourself or make sure it's one you've deemed as trash. I suppose you could go through and lock every one of them you want to keep but.. if you change your mind later you have to unlock it, and that seems kind of cumbersome too...

Thanks so much. Really appreciate the detailed info!

This was a super helpful video! I was so lost on what to do with these. Now it makes sense!

This was exactly the video I needed to progress my account for right NOW!!! haha thanks!

wish this got posted yesterday when i started grinding materia but thankful it's out now so i can actually make good decisions \o/

This video is beyond helpful! I'm so glad that you're still doing content. I'll be honest, I haven't watched your stuff since the early KHUX days. Man, I remember you taking a break from your job, going into a back room, and recording your pull for an Axel EX. The hype was real when you pulled it. XD. But anyway, I digress. I'll be looking forward to more videos from you on this game. It seems you're still very good about managing resources and a very chill dude. Keep it up man!

Thank you so much for taking the time to show us all this. I've been playing since October and while I've gotten my main team to about 172k power, I still haven't been doing much with materia since I didn't really get what I should be looking for (I know the substats are important, but didn't realize I should be watching fir percentages and what made a good ine or not). So now I'll start doing what you suggested in this video and see if I can't finally boost my team a bit better. Thanks again!

Guides are amazing! Easy sub!

Excellent guide!

Your channel is great. You're a winner in this space.

Dude...! Finally a great guide...! Thank You...!

Great video thank you so much

So friggin happy to see RU-vid Octo on the daily 😍😍😍😍😍😍

finally someone explains what starts we are looking, thank you!

Great informational video

Very good guide dude, cleared up a lot of questions. Only one remaining is where the heck do we farm the materia upgrade materials? Thanks!

Thank you!

I'm glad to hear we can get *5 materia, thanks for the vid.

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Thanks for the advice on materia Octo and I am still trying to get my first 5 star materia

Octo vids every day, brings back the memories ♥️

gg. scraped my d brave/esuna heal. haha I was still able to clear the event, but now I know what i should be keeping an eye out for

@smellyOctopus great guide the only thing I have a question about is what do we do with the fodder? Can it be used as an upgrade material or only sell?

I got my Debrave materia after the FF 7 sector 7 plate drop story mission. Do you get another in FF 1st soldier at the end?

Thank you.

Anyone know which quests drop debrave and esuna poison specifically?

Does it change something if (min 17:00) you first unlock the second subslot at lv2 and then tou level up again the materia one level at time? Could you possibily unlock 4 substats before level 5?

Where did you get the recipe for quake and aero blows ?? I’ve s+ all normal and hard crisis dungeons and don’t have them I’m confused ?

Thank you for the video. This is more harsh than genshin or star rail relic farming 😂, so much headache. I think ill be lvling the characters up and weapons before i even touch materia world. Its a lot of investment

Found your video and it was really helpful, but man I can't seem to find the Debrave material you showed. Maybe they cut it in a recent update or something.

is there a way to get debrave back if i have already sold it?

I got some questions. 1. 5:28 Does it matter if the most important stat is in the first row as you state? What if a Fire Materia has MATK stat in the third row? 2. When synthesizing a Fire Blow Materia, you say it is important to go for a PATK percentage stat. Wouldn't it be reasonable to also go for a MATK percentage stat? Or is fire blow just purely physical and doesn't benefit from a MATK stat? 3. Should I consider a freshly synthesized materia with only 1 stat as fodder if it doesn't at least feature a percentage stat that fits the materia (e.g. MATK stat for fire)? Should I only keep working on 2 or 3 stat synthesized materia? 4. I cannot find that Debrave Materia. Did the engine consume it when I used "optimize" when enhancing a materia? 5. What does "heal +0.5%" or "heal +5" do exactly? Does a character e.g. heal for 5 HP more when using "Cure" or similar materia or skills? Only on him/herself, or generally? 6. I got a Ruinra Blow (2 star, 5/10) with the following stats: MATK +0.6%, Heal +0.6%, HP 0.6%, PDEF 2 It doesnt feature PATK which would be the way to go with a physical materia, right? I also got a Ruinra (3 star, 3/7): MATK +2, PDEF +3, HP +16, PATK +2 It doesn't feature much physical power, but the HP seems high. Could this be considered a fodder materia and I should try synthesizing better ones?

Does anyone know how to quickly get memory pieces?

Whats the odd of rolling a 5 star, cuz my friend roll a 5 without catalyst. Let only the game dont let you get up to 4... also how tf can i play the game without fairy tale. Feel like i am on hardcore mode....

Man and i believed i could learn something new

substat are still random anyway so i only use those to get 2+ guaranteed. save me some stone in the long run. now i use those trash 2 star materia to level good stat random 3 star that i acquire. at the start while the stat are lower the flat is better than percentage, however when your stat char wise is in the 1000 then the percent stat are better. for example. 3% of 100 str is 3, then the flat attack of 10 would be better. but 3% of 1000 then thats 30 so thats better now.. so dont be afraid to use those flat stat early on. Also you can use those leveled materia for the exp later on.

Where can I get the recipe for ruin blow?

I used debrave to level up other materia on my main but thankfully learned that lesson so my f2p doesn’t make the same mistake 😅🤦🏽‍♂️

where do you get debrave location

Where do you get ruin and ruin blow recipe? I cannot find it anywhere. did i miss some chests somewhere?

I'm not 100% positive on this but for me it looks like the percentage based subs max out at +5.0%. I've gotten lucky with a 4 star Quakera that grants +5% HP/+3.4% MATK and again with a 4 star Fira +4.5% MATK but sadly no HP on that one. Btw your content is amazing; I'm glad I found a good creator for this game!

Actually a 3 star would still be better than a 2 star regardless of substats depending on what u use it for (until u get the perfect roll that is) Like I was playing with it today with ice blows. Ice blow 3 star attack was around 250% attack and the 2 stars was around 220ish% on the attack. So while yes it sucks without the sub stats. But if ur making it specifically for certain fights that aims for enemy weakness. The high stars Materia will still do more damage than the 2 stars one (just with that corresponding move that the Materia offers) I didn’t see ur video till now so I wasted some mid grade synthesizing items… oh well. Wait for next month until I can grind it again Great video btw

Any idea what mission that materia came from

Where do you find debrave?

Great video, Octo. Quick question, I understand the important part is not the rarity but the sub stats (percentage DPS stat and tankyness), but then, what does the rarity do?

checked the vid to late, Rip my debrave. Sadge :( thanks for the tips!

I just jumped into the game recently. I’m going thru the crisis dungeons for recipes. I was wondering what is the purpose of the ruin/blown recipes in the crisis dungeons that have no sigil associated with them? Thanks 🙏

You didn't mention using trash materia as level materials instead of using boosters. I highly recommend locking the ones you want to work on, then using trash to enhance.

If you enhace with the materia you wanna get rid off is it okay? I see you just enhace with your items and im wondering if affects anything when you upgrade your materia

What does the scouter say about his power level?

I had a 4* Fire, with MATK% become a 5* Fira. I was hyped

Now we just need that Cure Blow, where you punch to heal.

hi octopus just barely u know for exchange that debrabe, cloud have a weapon its call iron blade. it can decrease patck enemy too and its AN AOE ATTACK

This guy is my favorite wish version of Chilledchaos.

When do we get debrave? Bet i used it as fodder😭😭

I got cura from the synthesis tutorial, 3 stars PATK + 2.9%, heal +3.1%, HP +11 and MDEF +3, based on this video I assumed it's pretty good ? Although PTAK is not ideal as a second cura on a support character like tifa (with the new gear) maybe ?

You did miss the material you can buy from the dungeon shops they sell 4 star fire ice and lightning but than the only thing you miss

Great video, and super helpful. I must say that the materia aspect of things have been my least favorite parts of the game so far given the insane RNG.

So the same thing from Final Fantasy VII also applies here? (Green is magic, yellow is command, red for summon, blue for support and purple for independent)

Is there a good way to farm jewels?

Could you make a video on how to run this on PC, i have the IOS version, as i understand bluestacks is android only.

Not sure how or why, but every time I pause one of your videos, the still image is normally pretty goofy looking. LOL ... Good thing we love ya, Octo LOL. Another great video, of course, but then, I don't think you ever do bad videos. Keep it up!!

Accident lost debrave any way to earn it 😢

I have a 4-star, Level 10 Thundera Blow materia with 7.3% HP on my Cloud. My best one so far.

Great video! Can u blass us with your emulator and setup pls??

I upgraded my 2 stars FIRE blow and it became 1 star FIRA blow...how did this happened??

Dang, I'm sad I accidently used my debrave as fodder, hopefully we get the recipe soon!

as soon as I got debrave I started using it. I'm surprised people aren't looking at there materia more. there your skills and give buffs to stats.

I synthesized a 5 star Blizzard blow

I opened all slots as soon as I got in that part like expeditions. I knew down the road I would do it so the sooner the better. Not good luck so far.

i sold all my materia like an idiot, how could i get them all back?

I think there’s one more crucial thing you didn’t take in and so as i, I think that we should add materials to synthesis so we can get 3 guarenteed substats and pray for rng to give us % on the stats such as atk and matk. Because if we leveled up something with only 1 sub stat or 2 then we are wasting potential level up points that should be going into the stats instead of finding the next sub stat we are getting

i’m super crushed right now, i don’t have debrave and i cleared the story…i don’t know what happened

I’d say open all 5 slots to increase your chances of getting rolls.

Damn I never pay attention to the rng.. I spend alot item for it. Ty

I hope they give us soon a way to create all materias. Did the mistake by not locking Debrave and lost it with the optimize button and because of that struggled on tower lvl 30. Still managed to do it on 85k power but barely! Strongest fight so far for me. Great video btw :)

Pretty sure I used my Debrave as fodder by error... Guess I'll have to debuff the old fashioned way!

I wasn't aware of 3* guaranteed for some of materia. Somehow i got 4* just by upgrading 3*. This game is a confusing mess at the moment. I'm not a fan of perfect stats and eternal quest to get it, no pvp in the game, so I'll aim for 4/5* and that's it. Cool Stats are important for smt dx2 duels. Any FF game about OP weapons/summons/ mega cheats to kill bosses instantly. Thanks for sharing your opinion tho.

So you can get a 5* without adding materials? Tho it's highly unlikely?

I think i saw ele resis lower in crisis dungeon currency

I have used my debrave as a material for enhance level....

I unlocked all slots, Bad advise from your part, Everything else 9.5/10

Whoops, auto got rid of Debrave. Good video though!

great i used debrave as fodder when i didnt know its special...

Which quest gives debrave ?

I also got lucky and got a 5*

Omg, this is like genshin artifacts all over again

oof i sold all my 1 star materia, didnt know about deprave

10:28 only thing RNG guarantees is regret

I hate how the materia weapon slot boosts work because Cura for example doesn't activate any on Barret and Cloud. Meaning to get the most out of them you'll need to run all attack abilities on them and have only one healer on the team and from my experiences thats not really enough as of right now.

Aren't 3 stars supposed to roll better stats than 2*s ?

When Dr. Octopus tells you something thats when you shut your mouth and listen.

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I always aim for at least three stars fresh right out of the picking.. That could go to 4 star, 5 star even upon upgrading it.. Anything below 2 stars is a fodder

Can characters actually tank?