Quote Originally Posted by PokingAround View Post
Well, mostly because I didn't know that. But now I do, and that's very interesting. Never occurred to me to fill combat jewelry with DoL materia.
The meld caps for an i70 item are +5 Gathering and +5 Perception. i55 items are capped at +4 Gathering, +4 Perception. Because FSH only care about Gathering and Perception, the i70 accessories are much better for them than the i55 GP accessories. For DoL retainers, the only stat that matters is Gathering, so again, the GP accessories, unmelded, are as useful as the combat accessories, but the combat accessories can be melded with more Gathering.

The i90 and i110 accessories are DoW/DoM only to prevent people from using them as GP-less DoL accessories.