New Info From Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXX Digest

[RosalindDex]

The thing to remember is, it is actually worth making and melding the Carbonweave i170 gear, as it'll ensure you have 3* on all your crafting classes, thus making the Eikon crafts much easier to acheive. Assuming (until we know otherwise) that they'll have the same stats and meld caps as the existing i170 gear, and using i180 tools (no point crafting/melding those on non-specialist crafters), that should give you 891/850/414 without food (and only using the now massively easy to acquire Tier IV materias). That's more than enough with even cheap cp food (and with the 1>3 buff on Seafood Stew anyway).

In fact scrap that: Assuming it's the same as i170 gear is now, WITHOUT overmelds it'll hit 850/820 so enough for 3*. http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/UBD8 < That's based on my current accessory melds and using Bouillabaisse to get above the Rath's Rotation CP cap and In Control II, you can substitute that out by 3 control overmelds...