Why No Melds?

[Lexia]

The problem with MMOs are these type of threads and always seem to end up in the "if you don't play the same way as everyone else you a bad player and wasting people time" anyways that my piece pretty sure I'll get flamed for it be least couple people.

[Kaurie]

The problem with MMOs are these type of threads and always seem to end up in the "if you don't play the same way as everyone else you a bad player and wasting people time" anyways that my piece pretty sure I'll get flamed for it be least couple people.

Shrug, you have the right to play how you want, just the same as I have the right to complain about it.

[Khalithar]

I'm banking all my materia until we get the eventual third 24man and it's associated 10 ilevel upgrade for the tomestone gear.

[Werhusky]

I look at it this way: My gear on mains (healers) is melded with V materia IV on pieces that I plan to replace soon or on my alt healers weapons. I raid casual midcore though and don't expect everyone to be melded. Alt job I occasionally take into a raid/primal have lazy melds sometimes pieces unmelded.

If someone though applies to a raidspot in our team unmelded gear is a big minus and he will be questioned for its reasons and have a doubt on him. Actual raiding on a mainclass just has a different meaning to me.

[Nuinn]

• I don't play Savage mode content
• I don't play EX trials till months later
• Gear gets oudated too damn fast
• People like paying stupid prices for the materia I sell

[Wizhard]

I've read through half of the thread and this is my only response - ITT: mediocrity

[SessionZero]

I've read through half of the thread and this is my only response - ITT: mediocrity

[Fyce]

These people are also not participating in Savage content. The only content these people are participating in where the probability to fail at all is greater than zero are Alexander and Sophia normal.

I'm not sure what game you are playing, but in my FFXIV, I can spend 90% of an expert dungeon in cleric stance because nobody even needs a heal for the most part. I can only use half my rotation and still easily beat DPS checks. If that is different in your version of the game and you need those 162 substats to considerably boost clear rates, well...sucks to be you I guess? You have my sincere pity. It's not the same in my game and consequently, I don't value those stats as highly.

I play a FFXIV where average people jump right away in Thordan/Sephirot/Nidhogg/Sophia Extreme without meld, food buffs or stat pots, dying like idiots on some mechanics, while a few Vitality Materias could've saved them.
The same players who are not pulling their weight during DPS checks, where these "minor" buffs could've helped their teammates a little bit.
The same players who barely have the minimum iLv to get into these fights, because they were too lazy to run Void/Mhach a few times to upgrade their gear.

If you never saw these players, then yeah, we are not playing the same FFXIV.

By the way, you mentionned Alexander Normal. I had to do something like 20 to 25 runs of A12 to get my token, and I can assure you that I saw quite a good number of wipes that could've been avoided if people only had a few more DPS ("Oh this add is still alive with 1% HP and Alexander is using its ulimate, well, too bad I guess") and an extra few hundreds HP ("Hello Mega Holy! Oh, you have a double Weakness on you and won't survive it? Too bad I guess.")
I'm not saying that they are useful everytime, but when they are, these buffs can turn a Vote Abandon into a successful run. And the only fact that they can allow that to happen is enough to care about them instead of playing Greedy Fantasy XIV.

But there's one think I do agree with: I don't care if you go in Sastasha without melds.

[Underdog2204]

I play a FFXIV where average people jump right away in Thordan/Sephirot/Nidhogg/Sophia Extreme without meld, food buffs or stat pots, dying like idiots on some mechanics, while a few Vitality Materias could've saved them.

Who in their right mind meld's Vit?

[Naunet]

Forgive me for being ignorant, but... was there some sort of change in Heavensward that made it so crafted gear was the best raiding gear or something?

Back when I last played, the only gear you could meld materia to was crafted gear and that was only really useful if you wanted to drop a bunch of gil on some starter gear you'd replace in a week or two. Any raid gear had no materia slots...