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

[Felis]

You do realize that a 10% chance mean that only 10 out of a total of 100 will succeed and not 1 in your first 10 will succeed.

Not exactly. It don't remember how many lost were there before.
It is more like rolling a 100 side dice every time and to hope to get 10 or less points for the win.

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.

I don't have looked how it is in ARR, but during 1.0 HQ equip had a higher melding chance than NQ equip.

[Zfz]

Melding is definitely one of the worst things in FFXIV (gosh how many times have I used this expression...)

I wish every failure will give you a stacking buff that increases the success rate of your next meld for that specific materia. Even if only by 1% each failure.

Well at least it's better than a certain Sci-Fi setting MMORPG where failing a "meld" will clear all other "melds" on your equipment...

[Ashkendor]

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

Without the extra stats from melding, food isn't going to get you to the stats you need to craft some items.

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!

Then... you haven't finished the level 60 quests for any craft? You get a ton of materia for it, btw.

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!

None of the level 60 quest recipes require anything that you can't send a retainer for or gather yourself.

@OP - I saw what this did to the price on Cunning IV's on Sarg. The feels. x_x

[ValkyrieL]

TERA added a bonus after each failed enchantment on equipment when I used to play, maybe this game needs it for materia.

[Kietsu]