FF14 Advanced Crafting Guide (Part 4 Stormblood) by Caimie Tsukino

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Thank you Caimie! I have almost 0 materia and I agree I would be better off overmelding if the return rate on VI's is bad. I was just trying to avoid overmelding. Basically the simulator just takes away a whistle stack each action. Also my stats aren't even there yet as I am just hitting level 70 and my goal is just to not try and spend too much on materia yet. I was able to craft my own Ironworks set in 3.0 without having max melds but it took a lot of effort and the BSM tools were my first to obtain since it seems like BSM creates more tools than any other class.

Again I appreciate the feedback and I figure my best bet will be to HQ as much as possible.

Ah, I see what you're planning now. Personally, I would recommend in-slot melding mostly V's for craft and control, and overmeld some IVs for more craft/control and especially for CP (to max out CP). The prices on my server are approx the following:
Tier VI: 500,000 to 700,000
Tier IV: 6,000 to 9,000
That's almost 100 times difference in price. That's why I suggest overmelding IV. It's very affordable. Even buying with Red Scrips is cheap for IVs. For CP, you can easily meld 2x IVs (or even lower tiers) instead of using a VI. And you could easily save yourself 450K+.

VI's have only a retrieval rate of 40%. V's are 80% and IV's are 100%. So you can probably retrieve back most of the V's that you put in slots. But like I said, I do like the idea of using a VI on the chest though. The chest has a lot of stats can be melded into despite the fact that it's not necessary.