Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
That's the problem. Already powerful sets (not as powerful as melded gear, but are more powerful than vanilla gear) getting even more powerful wasn't the intention of Materia system.



What will even things out is them adding more actual gear that's on par with 1-2 melded gear. We're going through an overhaul so they really haven't added any meaningful gear which is why they let us craft said meaningful gear. Prior to materia almost everyone rocked 'HNM' and dungeon gear because it was 'the best', once we're back to a point of them adding powerful sets (AF/JSE is coming too) things will finally start to even out.

Getting a powerful set of melded gear is much more investment than doing a dungeon or killing an 'HNM' or farming up coffers. Even 1x meld isn't THAT great given how your stats required a significant boost to really see any large improvement.
i dont think you understand the issue or point i bring forth about UU gear being meldable as to how it balances out

and that fact is simple

its a pain in the ass to farm


that fact alone makes any sort of fail on melding it, painful, and undesiarable, so much that 1 meld will usualy be enough on it(and bring it up to if not surpass 2 slotting crafted gear)


the entire point of the materia system in general is to make gear more powerful, so how is making UU gear more powerful going to be a bad thing? gear can be more powerful, and thats all there is to it, the cost of doing so is something people need to consider, and people act as if its easy and free to do, which it definately is not