Why No Melds?

[Anzaman]

It's very easy to get grade 4 materia from beast-tribe daily-quests, so it's not that big burden to meld your gear. I could understand you gimping yourself if it'd only affect yourself, but there's a lot content that requires multiple players to complete it, and it's slightly annoying when people run with either 0 materia or have completely wrong materia melded in, seen too many BLM's with parry or strength.

You don't need to spend millions on grade 5 materia, grade 4 is good enough.

[Lexia]

It's very easy to get grade 4 materia from beast-tribe daily-quests, so it's not that big burden to meld your gear. I could understand you gimping yourself if it'd only affect yourself, but there's a lot content that requires multiple players to complete it, and it's slightly annoying when people run with either 0 materia or have completely wrong materia melded in, seen too many BLM's with parry or strength.

You don't need to spend millions on grade 5 materia, grade 4 is good enough.

No such thing as gimping yourself unless you raiding cause lot people already think non-raiding content is able to be face rolled

[Mwynn]

I swim in Materia V Grades basically... If you just do Weeping City you get one Materia, if you do Woundrous Tails you can get up to 2-3 Materias, if you do PotD you get Materia.
My Astrologian is melded, not fully yet due of new Gear, though atleast my Accessories get Materia everytime.

There is a huge difference between having 18.412 HP or 19950 HP (I can reach 21.000 HP in a Duty with VIT Bonus and Food...) thanks to VIT Melds on Accessories,... and yes, that 1.500 HP saved my Butt more than I could imagine it.

The same goes for Black Mages, you can't imagine how much Spell Speed you actually gain by having a fully melded Gearset with Spell Speed focused, and that's over 80-100 Spell Speed... if not even more

[LunarEmerald]

So I'm not sure how your reply has any relevance to me then. You're raiding so every little stat boost matters. To non raiders it doesn't. I'm already blasting the enemies away in Xelphatol in outdated gear, so why on earth would I waste millions of gil melding my next set just to kill them ever so slightly quicker?

It's not millions. IVs are literally free from doing beastmen quests.

The damage increase you get from melding your gear with IVs is just as much as you buying your lore weapon. Why the hell would you say no to +100 crit and det that literally costs you nothing?

"Oh, there's this free upgrade i can get that'll boost my dps by roughly 6%?"

"Nah, no thanks. I don't need it."

[MomomiMomi]

It's not millions. IVs are literally free from doing beastman quests.

Nothing is free.

[Urthdigger]

It's not millions. IVs are literally free from doing beastmen quests.

The damage increase you get from melding your gear with IVs is just as much as you buying your lore weapon. Why the hell would you say no to +100 crit and det that literally costs you nothing?

"Oh, there's this free upgrade i can get that'll boost my dps by roughly 6%?"

"Nah, no thanks. I don't need it."

Technically, it's not free. There's a thing called "Opportunity cost." Basically, by melding materia you're losing out on the potential gil you could have gotten by selling it.

[RyuSaarva]

the same reason why i watch netflix while i run content, because i can.

that makes no sense, you shold play something you like.

[Fynlar]

It's not millions. IVs are literally free from doing beastmen quests.

The damage increase you get from melding your gear with IVs is just as much as you buying your lore weapon. Why the hell would you say no to +100 crit and det that literally costs you nothing?

It isn't free. It comes at the cost of not being able to sell them for money.

"Oh, there's this free upgrade i can get that'll boost my dps by roughly 6%?"

You're vastly overestimating the difference melds will make.

[LunarEmerald]

It isn't free. It comes at the cost of not being able to sell them for money.



You're vastly overestimating the difference melds will make.

I am not. Check the stat weights for yourself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._stat_weights/

The newest Monk and Ninja stat weights are:

Ninja:
DEX: 1
WD: 14.9445854570452
Crit: 0.283836380512
DET: 0.204644795536845

Monk:
STR: 1
WD: 14.8312045494837
Crit: 0.291785864914651
DET: 0.209996953500461

This means that every 3.5 crit is worth 1 STR/DEX and 15 STR/DEX is worth 1 WD. With non crafted gear, you have 18 meld spots. For the sake of simplicity, we'll say you can meld crit to all of those. 18 IVs is worth 162 crit. 162 divided by 3.5 is 46.2. 46.2 divided by 15 is 3. That means that 162 crit is worth 3 WEAPON DAMAGE.

According to Dervy, a very basic dps conversion is:

1 WD/MD = 4% DPS increase
9 INT/STR/DEX/AP = 1% increase

3 additional WD would be a 12% dps increase

I personally think that's too high so I said roughly a 6% increase (but it could be higher). Either way, melds make a SIGNIFICANT difference. You're vastly underestimating the difference they make.

[Lexia]

Yae cause the pesky mobs have to die few seconds earlier....