Why No Melds?

[Atoli]

Waste of Gil.

Materia is super expensive to buy, and you need a lot more than the weekly options give you since it gets discarded with every upgrade.
Also, if I sell the ones I get for free, it's about 500k per piece, so I have to decide between having 1212 Spellspeed or "only" 1200....OR getting that beautiful new glamour gear/furniture/hairstyle/minion/whatever it is.
The gear is gonna be outdated in a few weeks again already, the glamour gear and furniture and minions stay with me forever and are still useful and nice 3 years later.

Why would I waste it on gear, then?

(To be honest, I actually do meld my gear though. But decided to only do it to the final pick of the patch, the 270 gear, so no melds on 250 and 260 for now).

[mp-please]

As for the V materia - weren't we talking about how socketing materia instead of selling it is a waste? That was my original point.

I didn't said to use Vs, i said to sell them and at least meld IVs.

[Welsper59]

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

Much truth. The investment people would actively put on gear that lasts is worlds different than anything we get here. Honestly, the only thing we have to that is crafting and gathering gear. Unlike most areas of combat, the crafting/gathering scene actually has overall benefits and visible requirements for players to meet to even get access to nodes or crafted tiers. Of course, you'll still see some players not bother, just because that's how it is lol.

[FoxyAreku]

Waste of Gil.

Materia is super expensive to buy

*Looks at market board and sees grade 3 crit materia for 1000 gil*

Expensive...right.

People really need to realize grade V isn't the only grade that exists. Anything is better than nothing.

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.

So lazy and cheap then, exactly like I said. :P

[Atoli]

*Looks at market board and sees grade 3 crit materia for 1000 gil*

You forgot a zero there. 10k. 80k for grade 4.
x 18 for all slots in 250. x18 for the tome gear. x18 for the tome gear after upgrading.

Man, I really wonder why people don't want to waste a bunch of money on something they don't need!
MUST be the laziness..

[FoxyAreku]

You forgot a zero there. 10k. 80k for grade 4.
x 18 for all slots in 250. x18 for the tome gear. x18 for the tome gear after upgrading.

Man, I really wonder why people don't want to waste a bunch of money on something they don't need!
MUST be the laziness..

10k is still pretty damn cheap. I don't know why you would play an RPG and not care about making your character as strong as you can.

I mean, this is like saying "Why would you buy Scripture gear or farm alex normal? You don't need it". Which is another true statement if you're not doing savage. It's just silly and lazy to leave these slots empty when you can easily rectify it. This game doesn't exactly have a lot of gil sinks to begin with.

Doesn't bother me either way though, I just love when people are like this, and then rage when they wipe on something like A12 normal at 5%.

[MomomiMomi]

I don't know why you would play an RPG and not care about making your character as strong as you can.

In single player RPGs I actually try to keep my character as weak as possible. I don't find them very fun otherwise. Most are way too easy.

[ToasterMan]

Materia prices depend on what server you're on. For instance, There's a lot more people who spirit bond on Balmung so prices are cheaper here. On a lesser populated server there are less spirit bonders so the prices are going to be higher. I'm curious to see what the prices of materia are on other servers.

[Claire_Pendragon]

10k is still pretty damn cheap. I don't know why you would play an RPG and not care about making your character as strong as you can.

its the equivalent of farming Lv1 mobs for months trying to get a level up, rather than doing what is more efficient with your time.
(which is dependent on what they have available for making gil.) if they run out of gil now, and cant make enough gil for the upgraded gear, they wasted time having to go out and farm more, when they could have just waited for the better gear.
Similar to RPGs who have cheap crap gear, and decent priced/decent gear u can get in a few kills, why waste the money, when u can go straight to the better stuff quicker if u dont waste the money? (Looking at Dragon Quest. After u buy the cheap gear, by the time u afford the expensive gear, you out leveled the boss, so its better to just buy the expensive stuff, to stay within level range, and not waste time on needless grinding)

[Ophie-Mio]

All content besides Savage can be cleared easily without it. Why waste the money or the effort? Min-maxing certainly can't be noticed when outside of Savage so...once again, why bother? I can personally clear everything without melds and when I don't meld my gear, I don't notice their absence.