Forbidden Melding T5's

[AnimaS]

what is an average crafter? 2.4 i reached over 100mil..sinceHW started i spent half and everything is melded/requirements met

[PirateCat]

what is an average crafter? 2.4 i reached over 100mil..sinceHW started i spent half and everything is melded/requirements met

I'm going to go with "not that" as the answer to what an average crafter is. I'd say I'm ahead of the curve myself - out of my mostly friends FC with 4-5 people active in crafting, I was the only one to get every Lucis crafting tool, the first Grandmaster of the Hand, and the only one with all 8 recipe books (as of a whopping yesterday) - but if you've actually dropped 50 million on materia then congrats, you've spent about the same as all the money I've ever made.

To the OP's point: Tier V materia can't be melded to the initial level 60 gear set anyway, and from the look of it, it will be generally possible to at least exceed the turn-in only gear with melds that don't involve V's. The market for V materia will mostly be people who want to tweak out 2-star gear sets to last as long as possible and/or get the drop on the next tier.

[Yeldir]

what is an average crafter? 2.4 i reached over 100mil..sinceHW started i spent half and everything is melded/requirements met

Sucks to be you. You're never getting that 50 mil back, because crafting gear for PVE progression is no longer a thing.