I'm surprised nobody else seems to think this is important. As it stands: If you want to have the best gear for a specific synced instance you need to go back and collect a full set of gear at that instance's exact level so that you can place materia in that gear without the stats being discarded due to syncing. That means melded endgame gear is actually *worse* than melded low-level gear for nearly all of this game's content!
I understand that realistically this only has a meaningful impact on ultimates and some BLU achievements, but the principal of the thing is completely backwards.
