Arbitrary Stat Caps on Materia Melding & Freedom to Meld MAIN Stat Please

[Jinko]

You guys are getting off-topic. What you can craft is not the point, its the stat caps for melds.

Personally, i find them quite intuitive most times. In the OP's first example, that gear has a greater affinity for control materia than craftsmanship. This is obvious because it has a high control stat and a very low craftsmanship stat. A rather small leap in logic will tell you that the item in question has a low craftsmanship cap and a high control cap. There's a reason craftsmanship is only +3, and its probably not for giggles. Makes perfect sense to me.

Sadly it doesn't always work that way, as some items with low stats still have silly caps.

For example crafting accesories.

A lvl 15 ring which only has CP, not allowing me to put a full piece of control or craftsmanship on it, yet low and behold I can put 2 CP materia on it.

I don't see why you need stat cap on socketed gear anyway, enforce it on forbidden melding only and there is no issue.