So current market value of flame geode is 70,000 gil, which would mean for the 55 you need for a weapon trial, would cost you 3,850,000 gil. This of course is exasperated by the nearly non-existant fire weather.

Now people will say, "but you get flame geode while doing the trial" or "you can farm them on firesday no problem, I get tons of them everytime."

In completing all of the kill trials for a fire based weapon I had to defeat a total of 1175 monsters. I did all of these kills on firesday, reinterating the utter lack of apropriate weather. After the 1175 kills I had gained 5, yes five, flame geodes and 6 ifritites.

What aplies to nearly all geodes is that their corresponding "ite" is very common, whereas the geode is quite rare. I have a simple proposition. Have a synthesis in where you can turn "ites" into geodes and perhaps in vise versa.