How are you melding the new crafting gear?

[Hinalover]

To be frank, you don't need expensive melds to HQ everything in the game. With a good MaMa rotation, you can have as low as 1330/1220/475 (but preferably 1441/1318/510) and still be able to HQ special 2 star recipes from pure NQ mats. So if you don't have the money to fully meld the i320, then just put temporary CP materia in them for now. And pull out the materia later when you want to do the proper melds. You can still craft ALL recipes and HQ them ALL in the game.

I took your advise and aimed for for the 1441/1318/510 MaMa rotation and came up with this set up after I JUST BARELY made my 2-star set (I actually used the Init Prep rotation with the minimum stats and struggled [several 70-80% chance to HQ]). But my thought process was since we NEED specialization for these sets, I factored in the 20 Craftsmanship and 20 control into my calculation. So when I made the following set, it may look odd but with NORMAL Tempura Platter (one you can buy from a vendor) it gives me 1445/1319/514 (1425/1299/514 for non-specialists). I only used a few level 5's and mostly level 4 and below in the new 2-star gear since I know I will need to re-meld come either 4.2 or 4.3.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/13SNG