Quote Originally Posted by Dark-Saviour View Post
Returned a while back and haven't had close to enough cash to start going after the new master gear, so seeing the bar slide again is... not pleasant. May as well give up on crafting and gathering at this rate. :-/
At the very least, no need to give up on gathering, I would think. I doubt there will be much need to meld a lot. As it currently stands, melding to achieve all node access is rather inexpensive and doesn't even involve more than a few t3 materia and only a bit of overmeld per to do.