Looking for suggested melds

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Sure you can, that's why I asked for suggested melds. I am a crafter and if someone asked me the same question, but for crafting, I'd send this to them. It's enough to be Lv.60 2-star across all crafting classes, plus a little extra so you can actually do some of the more popular and current Lv.60 2-star rotations out there. Was hoping for someone to come through with a gathering equivalent. Thanks though.

Pentamelding the shared gear are fine, but pentamelding ALL mainhand and offhand tools for ALL 8 classes???
NO WAY!!!!
Sorry, but I totally disagree with that approach... You can still do 2 star with minimal stats of around 724 craftsmanship, and it requires ZERO competence and ZERO command materia on mainhand and offhands. I would only recommend CP+3 and CP+1 on mainhands and offhands.

If you recommend people to follow that link of yours, you'll get them all bankrupt! LOL! Please don't do that!

Just use food to buff up stats to make some i170 gear, then with those gear, you can then use some of the rotations that require stronger stats. Alternatively, just trade in crafter's red scripts for an i180 mainhand. That will also immediately boost your stats for 1 class, allowing that class to make gear for other classes. This way, you won't have to pentameld 16 tools only to have 2 of them immediately getting replaced.

Concerning gathering gear, I did list out how I melded my gear for end-game gathering in Chapter 7 of my gathering guide.
http://ffxivrealm.com/guides/ff14-he...e-tsukino.157/
You can take a quick look if you want. But I am using the old ARR accessories that are pentamelded to max.
So it comes down to whether you have ARR accessories or not. If you already have those old ones melded, you can get away with less melds. I have only done 3 melds on my hat and 4 melds on my gloves, and it's already very sufficient.

If you are renewing your accessories with HW accessories, it will depend on how many melds you do on those accessories. If you meld them to max, you can get away with less stats on the left gear.