Originally Posted by
Vidu
You cant skip the step - you have to meld 75 materias into your weapon, by picking up to 5 different stats. Since its unlikely that you'll ever use the weapon in content that really matters I would just stuff cheap one into it (I actually did that on my scholar-book - finally a use for parry-materia, wohoo!).
The follow up step will be light-farming however - and while you can do that in any ARR-duty, even unsyched, picking more useful stats to combine lightfarm and potential lowlevel and level 50 roulettes could be worth it, too.