Make Crafting and Gathering Materia easier to access.

[Raven2014]

I think that would be fine if it cost triple what it costs for combat materia. Crafting/Gathering materia should remain expensive enough to be profitable if you focus on selling it, yet cheap enough to where pentamelding isn't dumping tens of millions for a set that you may never make the gil back on.

But why the latter would be a problem though?

- You don't need pentameld to HQ the latest recipe. Regular meld is sufficient for manual crafting, and you can just pad a few extra piece of HQ material.

- The reason you need pentameld is so you can mass auto-craft while using minimal amount of HQ mat (usually none). You're not paying a premium for a necessity, but for extra comfort and convenience.

If your goal is the second case, then you SHOULD always make back your investment, either through selling your craft or saving the market cost. But if you only gonna make a few pieces for yourself and still decide to go penta ... than that's a wasteful decision on your part, not a problem with the system.