New Artisan's Apron - What Melds?

[RiceisNice]

Honestly, if you are planning to get (or already have) your Lucis tool, don't cap Craftsmanship, it's pointless past 453. Cap Control and CP instead, and put the rest into Craftsmanship.

If you have the lucis, don't forget that your other crafts are also using the apron.

[Archadius]

If you have the lucis, don't forget that your other crafts are also using the apron.

An excellent point. However you can still manage the road to Lucis with other crafts by focusing Control/CP for melds (where possible) over Craftsmanship. That extra +6 Craftsmanship on the Apron is not going to make a difference if you follow this gear path:

AF Mainhand Tool + HQ Artisan Offhand Tool > Supra Mainhand Tool > Lucis Mainhand Tool

Assuming you have all your other "shared" gear BiS and max-melded, you can even go so far as to NOT meld anything to your Artisan offhand tool until you're ready to attempt Lucis and still have more than enough stats for the required synths.

[RiceisNice]

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I meant that in context that you shouldn't remeld your artisan top to accommodate the fact that lucis gives you excess craftsmanship, because chances are, your other crafts that do not have a lucis would not reach 453 craftsmanship if you remelded your artisan top for more control.

I guess it also depends on what you have melded on your other pieces; I had max craftsmanship melded on all my body pieces and rings, but I still needed to meld +6 craftsmanship on my offhand to reach 453 unless I had a supra.