Originally Posted by
Ramsey
It's a bit strenuous to obtain, as it needs more tomstones than darklight gear itself, (or gil) but the last bit about materia is simply not true. The crafted HQ gear is already better than (in most cases) or comparable to its corresponding darklight gear. Specifically looking at healer gear:
Now I don't know a whole lot about gearing an end game healer as I don't play a healer, but to me the raw stats already look better. And you already have 2 built in materia slots, you could even slot that piety back in and lose nothing. Without doing any forbidden melding.