The grind is real

[LineageRazor]

And then, I saw the gear requirement for the 3 star item and I basically have to remeld a lot of my gear because they were not necessarily optimized and I only have 5th slots available to put lvl 3 materias...

I was always puzzled when I saw a thread advertising the minimum materia requirement for 100% HQ. I mean, sure, that materia build was working THEN, but did folks honestly think that was going to be the perfect meld forever? That nothing would change, and no higher level recipies would ever come to be?

Given how relatively easy it was to fully meld every piece of gear, I was surrpised that more people weren't doing it, given how cheap Tier I and II materia were. Now, of course, it's a different story - but folks who weren't thinking ahead have only themselves to blame.

[ImDingDing]

I was always puzzled when I saw a thread advertising the minimum materia requirement for 100% HQ. I mean, sure, that materia build was working THEN, but did folks honestly think that was going to be the perfect meld forever? That nothing would change, and no higher level recipies would ever come to be?

Given how relatively easy it was to fully meld every piece of gear, I was surrpised that more people weren't doing it, given how cheap Tier I and II materia were. Now, of course, it's a different story - but folks who weren't thinking ahead have only themselves to blame.

I didn't have to re-melding, but I did have to meld. I was using a set of melding gear for all 8 classes to HQ anything with NQ mats before 2.2
In 2.2 I have just made 7 sets of crafters' AF and full melded them. lol, I have made a countless number of crafters' AF but it's 1st time for myself. The down side for me is the inventory space.