Why are people not selling melds gear ?>

[Ryios]

Because overmelding is so Random that it can cost 50k to 2 mil to overmeld gear in some scenarios and it won't sell for that. So the risk of trying to do it for profit is to high. If you want overmelded gear your going to have to acquire it without melds. Spirit Bind all the materia, and get it melded. Finding a fully melded piece on the AH with the right materia in it is very rare, and when you do it is VERY expensive.

That and you need IL70 gear to guarantee a tier IV materia on the convert and IL70 requires philo mats, so Tier IV materia is very expensive. Some of them go for 1 million for one materia. And if the overmeld fails the materia is lost. So people generally meld the Tier IV first, but some of the melds need a tier IV materia in the 2nd slot, and that has like a 20% chance to fail and if it does that's 100k to 1mil down the toilet.

Il 55 gear will net a tier IV materia, but it's rare. I converted 6 il55 pieces and only got 1 tier IV, so that also keeps the price in Tier IV high.

If any of the gear from Cystal Tower can be converted to materia it will lower the cost of Tier IV a lot, but I doubt it will be convertible.

Ironically, I actually took a huge risk recently and made a pretty big profit. I bought Rose Gold Tank rings and spirit bonded them for 250k each. I converted them and got materia worth 475k and 500k...

I would level Goldsmith and do that myself, but the rings need 18 peacock ore's or w/e, which is absurd, that's 2,250 Philo Tomes, so 23 WP Runs..... Which is just crazy (and that's just for 1 ring). I could buy all the philo for 360k but the chance of getting a worthless tier IV is to high for that kind of risk, could end up going in the hole millions.

The most effecient way to get Tier IV materia with the lowest risk is IL55 crafted gear, materia it with tier 1 crap so it binds faster and make your own materia. When you've got about 20 Tier IV's and tons of tier III's your ready to overmeld an entire Vanya Set... But you could sell all those Tier IV's for 10's of millions probably.

My point, it is so crazily ineffecient, that you are better off just getting Darklight and winging it till you get IL90.