Cost to Penta-Meld 5 2-star HQ Jewelery Pieces

[Koltik]

I just finished penta-melding my final 2-star HQ Jewelry piece. Given the high cost-investment of penta-melding 2-star HQ Jewelry, I wanted to share my experience thus far.

After getting full DL, and then quickly realizing that it was going to be months before getting full Allagan / Myth, I decided to take upgrades into my own hands and farm Philos to make 2-star jewelry, then penta-meld each slot. Little did I know that after all was said and done, the total cost for this came out to the equivalent of 7.1 Million Gil.

The above number is including all the materia that was required to successfully penta-meld, as well as the cost of the phil items (which I farmed, for the most part). If you take out the Phil item cost, and only look at materia cost, it comes out to 4.6 Million Gil.

Now that I'm done, and down to 650k, I am looking back and wondering if I would have gone down this road if I had known the ultimate cost to make these items as they are.

In the end I compare these 5 items to Coils/Myth jewelry, I am gaining 45 Str, 45 Dex, and losing 25 Vit. I am also losing some parry, but gaining a good amount of crit, determination, and accuracy. These numbers make it seem like it is a clear upgrade, but at the end of the day the question is this: how much does Vitality matter? Are the other stat-gains better than the HP I would have gained from 25 Vitality?

To be honest, I don't know. I probably won't know until I can get a full set of iLvl 90 Vit jewelry, which I haven't even come close to at this time. I'm just glad I got my 2-star HQ penta-meld set finished! If nothing else, it gave me something to do for two weeks!

What I do know is that I love healing for 1.3k - 1.4k (non-crit) with IB on a regular basis.

[Paikis]

I have done the same as you. Full penta-melded jewelery is BiS as far as I'm concerned. I have only now started to use tier IV materia in mine though, as they almost don't exist on Coeurl.

The cheap route to 5 melds:
Battledance III
Battledance III
Vitality III
Vitality III
Vitality II

The expensive route (the one I'm planning on taking now, as I replace the cheaper pieces)
Savage Aim IV
Vitality IV
Battledance III
Battledance III
Vitality II

I want to reach the parry and VIT caps on all my gear, so its not worth using the Battledance IV materia, as it wont save me a slot anyway.

[Koltik]

That is going to be expensive with Vit IV as a 2nd slot materia - my final ring took 11 Savage Aim III on the 2nd meld (35% chance). I hate RNG!

[Paikis]

That is going to be expensive with Vit IV as a 2nd slot materia - my final ring took 11 Savage Aim III on the 2nd meld (35% chance). I hate RNG!

Yes it will. But I don't really have anything else to spend my gil on anyway, so why not?

[BadRNG]

I'm curious why you went with the LTW Dex set rather than the GSM tank one. Is the extra dex really that useful? Or are the stat caps higher on materia if the stat is not on the base item? Not overly familiar with how the materia system works.

[Koltik]

I'm curious why you went with the LTW Dex set rather than the GSM tank one. Is the extra dex really that useful? Or are the stat caps higher on materia if the stat is not on the base item? Not overly familiar with how the materia system works.

You get 4 stats (STR/DEX/Secondary/Secondary) on the DPS ring, but only 3 stats (VIT/Secondary/Secondary) on the Tank ring. The tank ring stats can all be melded & attained if desired - both have same stat caps (ex. 10 Vit). Basically you get 1 free stat by going for DPS Ring; tank ring is unnecessary IMO.

[Delorean]

not surprised

did 20 vit 3s today, only one of them went in lol

[Kunkka]

I've done the same thing but socketed vit/crit/skill speed/det as parry seems very underwhelming in practice. This also lets me use these rings on my dps classes.

[Paikis]

I've done the same thing but socketed vit/crit/skill speed/det as parry seems very underwhelming in practice. This also lets me use these rings on my dps classes.

I've been considering doing this as well. Not sure though, that is a tonne of parry to lose (5x12=60 parry lost)

crafting has been useless since day 1. you'll replace it with coil drops and or myth gear. sorry for your luck man

You are incorrect. Crafted jewelery is BiS for Warriors.

[aswedishtiger]

crafting has been useless since day 1. you'll replace it with coil drops and or myth gear. sorry for your luck man