Meld caps

[AnimaS]

Unless you actually believe you won't need higher stats to craft *gasp* the new gear coming out (I am set to makewhatever comes out) there is a reason they did not upgrade the Lucis and made BiS Crafted gear. AF MAY COME but to GET it............. you will need stats.

[Yumi_umi]

At the moment, there's no need to meld your gear aside from a few CP melds. All of the crafts released so far are dead easy to HQ, including the level 60 1* recipes. You don't need anywhere close to max stats.

However, if grade IV materia is cheap on your server, I'd stock up on them as they'll likely be useful in the future.

Pretty much lol
And once SE enables V materia besides the rare transmutation from mutamix, ppl will be able to SB the gear and get some yummy V materia that will be for the new crafted gear.
There are like 3 types of gear in this game.
- tome gear
- raid loot gear
- crafted gear
Which ones did SE give materia slots to since 2.0?

@ AnimaS
I feel like u really want ur investment choice to be the right thing to do. But hey we all get what u mean but what ur doing is pretty much a gamble with losses heavily outweighing the pros.

You should have just kept most of ur materia and just meld some CP etc.

[MN_14]

There's no way of knowing what the required stats will be. That's why I'd stock up on materia just in case.

However, it's also possible that the next set of crafted pieces will be from 1* recipes only. Basically, I think it's a bit premature to start melding already, but it's definitely a good idea to have the materia on hand.

[giantslayer]

Yoshi has already stated that the intent of the red scrip gear is a slower but equal gear alternative to the kind of overmelding we have grown accustomed to.

My personal speculation is that the red scrip gear will be AF and comparable in power to a well melded set of whatever crafted BiS is (maybe they'll make new crafted pieces, maybe not, probably some but not all).

[chidarake]

as stated by others the current bis doesn't allow for grade 5 melds so if new crafted gear is coming come patch then it will most likely allow grade 5 melds.

red scrip gear would be equal to that meld capped gear not current, especially since we cant even cap the gear regardless of whether or not the stats are needed.

as for grade 4 materia its easy to get in the level 55 gear, it has a high rate of conversion and so materia prices will most likely drop as grade 4 becomes what grade 3 currently is.

personally ive melded my gear with one of each craft control and cp grade 4 materia where I would get the max stat gain for minimal cost. <minimal to me since I had a rather large stockpile.

I don't see them adding another mastercraft book so soon but wouldn't put it past them, and I don't think we will see new 2* recipes so quickly either. but af gear is coming one way or another thats for sure. and if you want your crafters to look unique again youll want the body piece at least. which either means we make 8 of current bis and meld to glam for each class or it replaces what we currently have.

[Aeyis]

as for grade 4 materia its easy to get in the level 55 gear, it has a high rate of conversion and so materia prices will most likely drop as grade 4 becomes what grade 3 currently is.

Reports on that vary. Personally I've received 1 tier IV, 4 tier III's and 1 tier II.

[Alexiell]

please enlighten me, how do you SB the lvl 55 gear? Ofc my lvl 55 gear was at 100% after crafting all the stuff for 8 jobs to lvl 60, but i tried to sb a new set just for materia and im getting no or very low progress when killing mobs or quick synthing low lvl stuff (lvl 51-52). Are we supposed to manually craft about 100 high lvl items to SB one set of gear? or did i fight the wrong mobs?
So far it doesnt look like we have an easy way to get tier 4 materia.

[Aeyis]

When testing SB, keep in mind that it takes twice the points to get to 2% as it does to get from 2% to 3%, or 54% to 55% etc.
When you first bind an item it doesnt actually add 1% spiritbond. Even tho it says 1%.

[giantslayer]

Reports on that vary. Personally I've received 1 tier IV, 4 tier III's and 1 tier II.

I recently converted all 8 of my old crafter AF sets to materia after getting them all to lvl 55. I didn't write it down, but I remember it being around 30% grade 4, the rest grade 3.

[Aeyis]

Unless you actually believe you won't need higher stats to craft *gasp* the new gear coming out (I am set to makewhatever comes out) there is a reason they did not upgrade the Lucis and made BiS Crafted gear. AF MAY COME but to GET it............. you will need stats.

Well you certainly called it.