Quote Originally Posted by Umero View Post
but definitely better than ilvl70 gear if melded properly.
Well yeah. At base the HQ crafted stuff is the same iLvl. So naturally adding a few more slots with stats would make it better. I don't think anyone is arguing that they are worse than other iLvl 70 items. The question is how would you go about calculating the melded gear in such a way as to make it realistically fair to boost the iLvl further. If we do it purely on how many slots are filled we run into the issue of people filling slots with cheap crappy elemental materia. If we do it based on stats we run into the issue where they have to pick certain stats and give them stronger weighting than other stats. This could easily marginalize odd gear setups, but might be better in the long run. I'm not sure how you would go about doing what was requested without running into different problems later on.