Why No Melds?

[Theodric]

Lazy, cheap, or both.

There's no better excuse for it really. Even putting grade 1 2 or 3 materia in is better than leaving it empty.

There's a great excuse actually - materia isn't needed for the vast majority of content in this game. Elemental materia is just 'there' and whilst the other stats are more useful unless someone is tackling high end content then no real incentive to add it to gear. Perhaps if dungeons were more along the lines of Pharos Sirius before it was nerfed then there would be more need for people to make use of materia.

[Maero]

Because by the time someone gets gear and melds it, new gear is out again?


I am just kidding.
It is probably people do not think it is worth doing or are cheap

[FudoMyoo]

I think upgrading gear every 3 months is too fast. Maybe every 6 months would be perfect.

[Nexxus]

It would have been fun to meld if Materia weren't just stats but passif/active buff (like a trinket), anyway, it's also hard to meld has update change the ilvl stuff often... and personnaly as i don't know the BiS i can use for this update, i wont try to lose my money on it.

It is sad because, Materia is a great addition to the game and less frustrating than any other melding/socketing game (like Aion).

I think upgrading gear every 3 months is too fast. Maybe every 6 months would be perfect.

Every expansion would be better

[Dzian]

This is something that's been bothering me ever since the materia melder NPC was introduced. Why do people still not meld their gear? I'm asking this genuinely and honestly since I still see many people without a single meld in any of their gear.

Tier Vs can be acquired through Weeping City or potshards from Palace of the Dead. People don't have to level crafts or find a crafter in order to have it melded, only pay a 2k fee. I like to try and understand other points of view, but this one continues to baffle me. Do people not know that it's easier to meld up your stuff now?

Edit: Forgot to mention Tier IVs can be acquired through beast tribe quests.

Because I'm not melding something i'm gonna throw away / upgrade next month.

If gear lasted us a much longer period of time, I suspect you'd see more player investment in each individual piece.

Also this. why invest in melding throw away gear?

one of many problems with this game. Yoshi P wants players to focus on gear instead of character development but all gear is throw away junk.

[SendohJin]

Have to agree it is a huge waste of gil, although I always put t5 on highest tome gear and t4 on lore,alex etc. I would rather they slowed down on gear upgrades and making new armour and actually just gave us new content, dungeons etc. Also nothing stopping the other dungeons dropping same gear as another dungeon/raid etc.

What are you going to do the new content for if it has no rewards?

[Seig345]

Personally, I haven't been completely caught up on gear except maybe when Darklight was the thing to have. Until I hit some kind of content where melding is required to clear it, I'm not sure why I'd bother melding something I'm going to be replacing with whatever the next tome piece is in a week or two.

I'm sure if I was on the bleeding edge of content and had BiS tome gear, it'd make more sense to meld, but I'm usually several patches/tiers of gear behind, and by the time I catch up, a new tome tier comes out or a new patch adds new content and nerfs the stuff I hadn't cleared yet, making it only necessary to grind tomes to clear it. I hang onto materia that would be helpful, but I'm waiting until I know I won't be throwing away whatever I meld it to inside of a month.

[Jatoi]

I am compelled to meld because I just feel so naked without most of my stuff without.

It helps that I did my Mhach weekly and PoTD weekly, or I get lucky and get a Potsherd drop in the dungeon itself so there's an extra. As a result, I don't actually need to pay anything for the materia since I get it well in advance.

[MomomiMomi]

What are you going to do the new content for if it has no rewards?

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[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Admittedly, I don't meld, but I'm planning to meld my normal alex gear with Vs. Accessories tend to have the weakest overall impact and so are typically replaced last. Considering that, I'm more than happy to meld some Vs into them because for the foreseeable future, I'm gonna be hanging onto them for at least a few months. Admittedly, I rarely buy tome accessories, since once I've got my mains left side, I move on to my subs left side, so I never really get around to upgrading accs. More str Vs plz!