Quote Originally Posted by NefGP View Post
OK, so I was working under the assumption that the HQ i70 could match Allagan/AF2 with proper melds, but apparently not? (like STR is capped at 12 for tanking gear vs 18 on the i90)


What the hell? I hope the devs are planning on fixing this next patch because that's bogus. Not only is it far more expensive to fully meld your gear, but it's actually still weaker than i90?! That's not what the original intent was with materia & DoH.
Not really.

Darklight was still better in 1.23.

And melding was a metric ton more expensive, because it blew up the item if the meld failed, so you'd be going through a TON of HQ Vanya Robes just to get that triple or quad meld.

They wanted this particular style of gear progression where you can use crafted gear temporarily then replace it with gear from tokens, and this is pretty much how it's going to stay.