How are you melding the new crafting gear?

Hello,
I've started to now craft the new crafting set since i'm assuming we'll need it to replace the twinsilk set once we get 3 star recipe's in the future. I'm guilty of not really knowing what to start melding first or what cap to aim for I actually come here and just follow someone's melds or sort of a outline of it.

Will some kind souls please post your melds (and over melds) to give like a base layout? Or are people not advance melding the new crafting set?

Towards the bottom of advanced melds I just used some IV materia which with the new Retrieve Materia system can be 100% removed and reused if I want to replace them with V overmelds later.

I found this in another thread.
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13HS5

I only putter rank 5 control cuz r6 cost 2.5m

Im going to stock pile on materia and see when 4.2 comes out if I overmeld or not.
Right over melding more than 1~2 r4 seems pointless

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Originally Posted by Sylvain

I only putter rank 5 control cuz r6 cost 2.5m

Im going to stock pile on materia and see when 4.2 comes out if I overmeld or not.
Right over melding more than 1~2 r4 seems pointless

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Yeah, T6 costs quite a lot right now. Before 4.1 I did quite a lot of spiritbonding, but even after only melding a little bit I am now out of 6s. I'll probably spiritbond a bit more while getting my gear up there and making collectibles for those Alchemics.

Thank you all for the responses! I wasn't sure where to even begin

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

I found this in another thread.
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13HS5

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Thank you i was looking for something like this exactly

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13M9S

This is a build using the best possible melds you can do with the Ala Mhigan gear. (minus the rings, could use VI instead of V for CP and MH/OH which you can go nuts on to your fancy.) You can swap any of the VIs for Vs and lower tiers if you like. My suggestion would be put the VI's in guaranteed slots and overmeld with IVs. Unless it is the accessories there you should put more gil towards.

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Originally Posted by MeridaQ

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13M9S

This is a build using the best possible melds you can do with the Ala Mhigan gear. (minus the rings, could use VI instead of V for CP and MH/OH which you can go nuts on to your fancy.) You can swap any of the VIs for Vs and lower tiers if you like. My suggestion would be put the VI's in guaranteed slots and overmeld with IVs. Unless it is the accessories there you should put more gil towards.

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Thank you. Yes sadly I'm not rich enough to buy the VI's so I'd put them in 100 percent spots then just using VS and other lower ones. I'll keep saying this, everyone says crafting is fun but they never mention how you almost have to go totally broke before being able to make your Gil back haha. But I do love it.

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Originally Posted by RayneLittlewinkle

Thank you. Yes sadly I'm not rich enough to buy the VI's so I'd put them in 100 percent spots then just using VS and other lower ones. I'll keep saying this, everyone says crafting is fun but they never mention how you almost have to go totally broke before being able to make your Gil back haha. But I do love it.

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Make it back along the way. I buy up all the "crap" Tier V and VI materia on the board I can (usually spend 1 or 2 mil).
Then I hop over to Mutamix Bubblypots and convert everything, starting with the Vs first.
At the end of a session, I usually walk away with some Crafter/Gather materia for myself and plenty of materia to put back on the board to cover my expenses, usually turn a small profit.
You do have to find the maximum price for the junk before you start losing money on average. On my board that breaking point is 3K for a V and 20K for a VI.