Quote Originally Posted by Surian View Post
Again, a noble goal, but the amounts of materia (and it's current prices) will make you put in 1-2 mil of gil easily just for the final upgrades already, especially with all the failures you will endure melding them in. Not to mention the time and money spend leveling up.
Or you can farm the materias and the materials to lvl up and then it's free and you can even make some gils by selling some items.