Why No Melds?

[LunarEmerald]

Materia in this game is overrated. Full V melds barely give 1.5% dps increase for a dps job. It matters for world first groups, but for people casually running expert dungeons or story mode Alexander it's not important (they can, for example, increase their dps by 30% just by doing optimal rotations and they are not doing it either). So why they should care about 1.5% when they don't care about 30%?

I'm pretty sure that's a made up statistic. You know every 30 points or so of crit is worth 1 weapon damage. Full melding gives over 120 additional crit. That's 4 points worth of weapon damage. Not melding at all is like using a i230 weapon instead of i250. It's a significant difference.

Also, world first statics manage to bypass gear/dps checks with pentamelded gear in the past, because secondaries you meld are not to be underestimated.

I'd say not melding is more a 6% dps loss rather than 1.5%. You're gimping yourself pretty hard and causing runs to go slower.