Quote Originally Posted by keroo View Post
It is unfair to us Paladins that we need to fuse first 4 Alexandrates to enable to fuse higher grade materia to each of our weapons. It's double the effort than the others. Please see this SE.
The "others" need to meld 8 or more Materia of level I's before they are allowed to meld level II's.

So no. its not double the effort, its the same.