Upgrading U/U items to make them better.

[Shneibel]

But unless they plan to add better gear you can buy with GC seals its pointless, all the lvl 50 GC gear is crap.

not all of them, if you check all the gear:

craft pants +15 craftsmanship (you can survive w/o but with it you can use another piece of gear for more M craftsmanship)

the 3 shield (grid got the best block rate of 168 or so while Uldah got the best dmg reduce and the LL is both and give +10 atk power)

2 rings

Chocobo gear at 1.21 (useless, but they will be decent at 2.0 and you cant craft them, only buy from GC)

end of the line: look at the vision the game is heading

edit : forgot the shield at grid as well +10 m accuracy, decent for THM

[Jinko]

Sure there is the odd one or two pieces. Maybe I should have said most instead of all.

What I would like to see is class specific NPC retailers upstairs in each grand company that you can buy with tokens you get from bosses.

U/U Gear should be comparable to craftabe gear with 2 melds. (or like the OP suggests)

[Chinook]

I'm with Duuude on this, allowing single materia on U/U gear is the best logical simple solution to enhance U/U gear on par with single/double crafted gear.

[Firon]

I'm with Duuude on this, allowing single materia on U/U gear is the best logical simple solution to enhance U/U gear on par with single/double crafted gear.

How? Explain please. Lets say i have Mitts of the lone knight and can put 1 materia on them. Which would most likely be STR or attack materia. Why waste my time getting those gloves and putting one materia on them when i could spend less time double melding some Felt bracer's with 40+ attack or 40+ str or even 20+ attack or 20+ str. So how is melding 1 materia to U/U items gonna help?

[syntaxlies]

i say just allow the same materia guidelines as crafted gear. if someone want to take the chance to blow up their u/u go ahead. x2 meld wont make much difference anyway.

[Firon]

i say just allow the same materia guidelines as crafted gear. if someone want to take the chance to blow up their u/u go ahead. x2 meld wont make much difference anyway.

That's the problem tho even if you could meld the U/U gear it still wont be better than crafted that's my whole point.

[syntaxlies]

That's the problem tho even if you could meld the U/U gear it still wont be better than crafted that's my whole point.

yes it would, lol, are you serious.

[Firon]

yes it would, lol, are you serious.

Show me an example where having materia on U/U gear would make it better than crafted. I gave an example in the post above so enlighten me please.

[syntaxlies]

Show me an example where having materia on U/U gear would make it better than crafted. I gave an example in the post above so enlighten me please.

your example shows only being able to put one materia on, i would put 2.

[Firon]

your example shows only being able to put one materia on, i would put 2.

And those mitts still would not be better tho -.-. If you could use the melee body from DH and it could be upgraded which has str and dex on it i think. That body would sought out for cause str materia cannot be put in that slot. U/U gear should offer good stats on armor where materia could not be attached, like having boots with int on them.

For example Sephi(think that's right) Turban is a great piece but the stats on it is so low its hardly noticeable. Why couldn't that head piece have like +15~20 str on it?