Why would a BLM meld mind in gear? Does this game do a poor job in explaining stats?

[Ririta]

They should just merge mind and intelligence, I don't see the point of having those two stats separated besides the confusion as mentioned by OP, or stopping casters from having decent heals (it's not like a black mage being able to heal herself when healers are too slow would break the game...).

Heck it would even help the "healer DPS" problem as people wouldn't have to stance dance to deal decent damage.

[Kaethra]

They should just merge mind and intelligence, I don't see the point of having those two stats separated besides the confusion as mentioned by OP, or stopping casters from having decent heals (it's not like a black mage being able to heal herself when healers are too slow would break the game...).

Heck it would even help the "healer DPS" problem as people wouldn't have to stance dance to deal decent damage.

Its possible they might do something similar by removing cleric stance.

Devil's advocate on this.. but why not do the same with STR/DEX? Or even all 4 stats?

[SenorPatty]

Maybe they thought it would affect all healing they received, rather than put out? Still pretty silly, but maybe a possible explanation.



I have to plead guilty on this one. You can easily go through the whole story up to this point without slotting a single materia. I just beat Soul of the Creator Normal for the first time tonight, and still don't have any materia. I have no idea what sort of gear check Extreme eikons or Alex Savage requires, but up to the point I'm currently at, materia is basically a joke and not factored into the game.

Agreed. The content in this game has rendered materia to min-max status.

[LunarEmerald]

Agreed. The content in this game has rendered materia to min-max status.

Even if it's not required, it's pretty silly not to meld since npcs can now do it for you. Melding IVs is super cheap and provides a significant boost to your secondaries. There's really no good reason not to meld at least IVs. Being able to kill stuff faster, regardless of content, is never a bad thing.

[Arutan]

I personally have 1 piety materia, for comfort reason, to prevent a team where the only heal is WHM.

[marcmy]

The tooltips aren't even necessary, when you're leveling through Heavensward, all the healing gear has mind on it, all the caster gear has int on it.. that should be enough to tell someone "mind is for healers, intelligence isn't". The person just has poor reasoning skills. Short answer: No, I don't believe the game does a poor job of explaining the stats.

[Tanathya]

To your second question in the title, the game gives everything to everyone silverplattered. It treats everyone as if we were children.

[Bebekurenai]

And you made a whole thread plus a LS convo dedicated to one fool? Is this really worth our attention?

[Dzian]

Even if it's not required, it's pretty silly not to meld since npcs can now do it for you. Melding IVs is super cheap and provides a significant boost to your secondaries. There's really no good reason not to meld at least IVs. Being able to kill stuff faster, regardless of content, is never a bad thing.

doesn't really matter how cheap it is. gear is all just throw away junk...

why meld my 260 body when in a couple of weeks it'll be 270?
why bother melding that when 4.0 is around the corner?
i'm already 40 ilevels above the content so why bother with materia..

there's your reasons people don't bother melding stuff because there's just no point..
food and meds are pretty much exactly the same... nothing lasts long enough to make it worth investing in even a little bit.

if gear lasted and wasn't replaced every single patch i'd blow millions of gill trying to squeeze every single point of stats I could onto it. but when it just gets tossed who cares...

it's why people don't even look at the stats. just grab any piece that's higher ilevel and carry on... augmented shire bracelets or proto ultima.. grab the ultima even if there worse just because then I can use my coin to augment a left side instead of a right....

As for the blm melding mind I unno. maybe they play smn and use it to bolster sustain or phykik when they solo with titan........ who knows....

[ErryK]

As for the blm melding mind I unno. maybe they play smn and use it to bolster sustain

Sustain is a straight 8% heal per tick, it doesn't scale off Mind, only your current summon's HP cap.