Why No Melds?

[Neophyte]

Because I'm gaining more utility from the money I can make selling the materia than I can make slotting it.

Game economy is set up to shift money from battle-jobs to crafters and from there to gatherers. As someone who hates both crafting and gathering and can't sell Creator Savage runs or something, even as little as 50k would be worth more to me than 12 crit on an item. The only materia I'm even willing to slot is the free T4 materia from beast tribes, because those don't even sell high. And even there...I don't really do that content anymore, so I'd have to go out of my way to get them, which I often don't feel like.

Lol, what?

You have hunt seals and gc seals with battle classes. If you can't desynthesize stuff you can trade allied/centurio seals for gc seals. Idk the price now, but arachne web (2250 seals) should be worth several ten-thousend gil. There should be several things, like Borax, Raziqsab, Dubbing, Scheelit, Emery, etc. etc. etc...., which are worth a lot.

If you're not doing relic and don't craft you have also lore tombs. 10 Lores are worth 10-20k gil minimum.

Let's just say you do one expert run and get one item out of it.

That's 1200 gc seals for the item plus 140 Lores. That's several 100'000 gil....

Or you get the ones from the beast tribes which are selling high (accuracy on my server yesterday @ 70k) and buy the cheaper ones (Skill/Spell Speed were around 20k) if you need them.

You can make 200k+ as a battle class per day (without the slightest effort). What other "utility" do you buy from all that money?