You really lucky.........thinking i failed for 500+ times.......and even not success until now......
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For unlucky person same as me, may do the following way:
use brass earrings and rings, rank 1 body and head gears to make r1 materia, only keep +1 - +3 str / mnd / pie / vit / dex
Cat 1 : Pie meld to ALC r48 primary tool
Cat 2 : STR / VIT meld to Armor r48 primary tool
Cat 3 : MND / DEX meld to weaver r48 primary tool
Once you get 40+ materia for one category, then you can start to meld. Provided that i hope I am luncky enough to get 1 success for 20 attemp....even system told me that success rate is 40%, I never got it......
If you successed to meld 2 materia into 1 gear, than store that gear, wait until you have 10+ gears melded 2 materia, than try to meld 3rd materia......just repeat until you got 10+ gears melded 4 materia, than try to meld the 5th one.....(I need 4 month to make 8 gears melding 4 materia....SHXX!)
But I've just experienced 10 continuous fail to meld the 4th materia.....with 25-30% success rate........Really never trust success rate from FFXIV, it is a lie. 20% success rate not means you will have 20 success for continuous 100 attempts.
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Got this 3/3/12 5x MND I on a Woolen Beret. Got the 4th and 5th achievement on same item. Half Moon. Pure luck IMO. Good luck is all i can say.
So after buying all the tier 1 materia that was 1k or less (had some on retainer too), i made some lv48 items like raptor cullottes, pot helm,workboots etc and went and gathered some catalysts. I then sat down and started with the cullottes and got my crown the first try. Guess blowing up millions on double melds reset my luck >.>