As if the crafting grind wasn't bad enough :(

[Arkann]

Leveling a craft is all fun and games. You gather your materials, build piles of components, feel proud and accomplished when you rock a full set of armor, accessories and a weapon you made all by yourself when you're still leveling your DoW or DoM... and then you hit level cap and this kind of absurd stuff begins. That's why I only started crafting in 2.5 even tough I had all my crafts at 50 in 2.2.

[Sartori]

Should have quit on the second meld, ridiculous to spend all that time and energy for that 10% chance, wouldn't have even made that much difference. Could have ate some food lol

[Moonleg]

Should have quit on the second meld, ridiculous to spend all that time and energy for that 10% chance, wouldn't have even made that much difference. Could have ate some food lol

Or you could have the meld AND the food.

[Kahnom]

-No offense-
Rich alone ain't enough to do this,you have to be stupid too.
-No offense-

[AsahinaMyLove]

I never ever use expensiv materia for that very broken meld system roulete at slot2 and higher <,< (some cost 70k and higher)
its PURE gil waste! (45%(?) and 7 melds in a row fail...? yeah sure.....)

I mean hey: I dont even dare to waste time and materials to get those new master books and I still earn a large amount of gil by crafting other stuff!

I hope we can exchange law tomes to blue scrips someday!!!

Pretty stupid idea to begin with by releasing "master books" - only for rich players! D: <
very unfair to players who cant afford throwing away materials/gil just for 1 book!

[Ronyx]

I just need to vent ;_;
I mean, yeah I knew the risks going in, it's still disappointing.
This represents about a month's worth of sb just blown up & not even on the last slot.
Someone else will meld theirs easily, someone else might blow up more than me, idk.
Just frustrating crafting gear progression is limited by complete rng you have no control over.
Even having some sort of alternative, guaranteed method (eg. burn 50 IVs at once for 100%) wouldn't be that bad because you'd at least be able to see the end goal. This is just suffering.

Also, if you're on Sarg, now's a great time to sell CP IV

I will cry with you T_T. Yeh this is terrible. If they were going to make this items so hard to craft they should had gave it more slots. Like those Forager/Artisan which were hard when they first came and ha 3 slots which make them more easier to overmeld. So Accessories, Main and Off Hand should had at least 2-3 Open slots of 100% too.

[Granyala]

I remember when failing a meld meant losing the gear too.
Those were the days.

Seriously?!
What kind of masochistic player does it need to put up with Bullshit like that?

@OP: 8 years of WoW taught me that RNG doesn't like me even one tiny bit. So the moment I heard about "RNG overmelds" I was like "yeah .. not going to do that".

[Elisewin]

All that materias gone.. /comfort.

[Yumi_umi]

well, even had I waited for a reliable source of T5 materia I'd still have to overmeld 2x CP IV + 2x cmd IV. T5 for necklace just means +3 craft (+9 (/11) vs +6).
Overmelding multiple T5 doesn't solve the problem either as they're not in denominations that let you drop slots. ie., would still need to use 5 materia.

I quad melded my earing with tier 4 and stopped there cuz gambling that 10% with another tier 4 is pointless.
Also y do u even need that much stats. Its not like ur in full i170 gear so no point really till 3.1 rolls around.

[Waeksyn]

There really needs to be a mechanic through which you can improve your melding chances. Potions, food, FC actions, crafting action, etc. Maybe something you purchase with blue crafting scrips. I'd also like to see a mechanism that allows you to use more materia in a single meld to improve chances of success.

Games are supposed to be fun, not exercises in cruel frustration. The crafting design team at SE seems to be composed of all of their bitter, player hating sociopaths.