Stats in FFXIV / Base Damage

[Jinko]

It may be more time consuming but that shouldn't instantly make it better.

I still think that dungeon loot should trump most craftable gear, it's pretty much standard in MMO's that craftable gear is for levelling up and the majority of the best in slot comes from dungeons and boss fights.

Sure there is the odd exception to the rule but I kind of prefer it that way.

I personally hate multimelding and the whole materia system could be so much better IMO, but this isn't really the place to discuss this, I will say though that nobody forced you to triple meld so don't expect it to be better than a Primal weapon.

Infact you probably new this was the case prior to getting the 3rd meld.

As I said though the last producer letter had High level crafting recipes on the list of things for 1.22, so there is a possibility that new lvl 50 weapons that are triple melded will be better than primal weapons... time will tell.

Also DMG >Stats . so unless the new craftable weapons are the same or higher in the dmg stat its unlikely meldable ones will surpass them.