Meld caps

[AnimaS]

This gear is going to be BiS for a long time unless you forsee some craft needing 800+ CRAFTSMANSHIP soon?

[giantslayer]

I wish to know the meld caps on gear between 51 and 60.

I don't think it is worth max melding anything less than a BiS piece. For lower level stuff, it is better to focus on getting a good bang for your buck and having enough to get by until the higher level stuff is accessible.

[AnimaS]

The crafting gear (Master LTW/WVR etc) is BiS for a while. They never would have made it if not, and as i posted above with 720 Crafts and 688 Control ...... it's just easy.

[Yumi_umi]

I think AF gear will easily replace the chimera set.
Like wats the point of releasing AF crafter gear if adept gear is under the all powerful melded chimera/ serpent set. We r waiting for af gear = most likely will be an upgrade.

[AnimaS]

You wait too long as with all real crafters, you lose your money opportunity the melds cost notnearly as much as power leveling them all to 60. The current gear melded should be OP for SOMETIME

[Alexiell]

I'd be very surprised if they dont add new crafted gear (for DoW/DoM but also for crafters/gatherers) together with red scrips in 2 weeks. Maybe the new crafted gear is the class specific AF gear, so having a single strong set with melds for all classes will definitely help. But personally, i will wait 2 weeks and get the current BIS gear without melds for now. It seems like this is enough to craft all of the current stuff and i can still prepare and gather materia in case we gonna need melds for the new stuff, i just wont use them yet.

[Yumi_umi]

You wait too long as with all real crafters, you lose your money opportunity the melds cost notnearly as much as power leveling them all to 60. The current gear melded should be OP for SOMETIME

And what do u need such stats for?
Ur crafting like what 3 star level 60 crafts?
This is technically the "patricians" set of 3.0" (ppl used it to craft 2 star back in 2.0 i think lol. )
If the AF is CRAFTED and has MATERIA SLOTS and has BETTER STATS then it'd be better to gear up and meld those asap.
Like u mentioned ppl wait too long so if ur gonna hang onto that set when better gear comes out then idk.

All u need is to be able to reach the minimum crafting stat to craft the 1 stars etc.

[Yumi_umi]

The only thing i see that'd be worth keeping around for a while is the belt as the belt tends to get replaced much later than the rest of the gear. So melding the waist gear is probs the safest bet if ur not sure if u wanna meld gear that might get replaced soon.

[Aeyis]

And what do u need such stats for?
Ur crafting like what 3 star level 60 crafts?
This is technically the "patricians" set of 3.0" (ppl used it to craft 2 star back in 2.0 i think lol. )
If the AF is CRAFTED and has MATERIA SLOTS and has BETTER STATS then it'd be better to gear up and meld those asap.
Like u mentioned ppl wait too long so if ur gonna hang onto that set when better gear comes out then idk.

All u need is to be able to reach the minimum crafting stat to craft the 1 stars etc.

There is no confirmation of any of that yet. Besides even if it turns out to be the case: AF tends to be class specific.

[Shadowsun]

http://www.garlandtools.org

Has all the items and all the stats for NQ HQ and Max Melds. Use it.

Also has the Materia V stats, +11 Craft +7 Ctrl +6 CP (which is annoying because some items need +6 control +7 craft and +8 cp (accessories))

but if you really can't meld Mat V to anything under 160... ugh