Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
This day and age though, it isn't like 2.4ish when if you melded certain gear (thinking BRD legs/body) with 4 Tier IV materia and 1 Tier III materia it was comparable if not BiS. It was a corner case and it kept a market open (for materia and gear and the mats necessary). Right now? No such thing. For many that are already using i190,200,210 accessories, it is hard to justify "dropping" to i150. if you are clearing content, I guess it doesn't matter what you are wearing.
Those accessories are a theoretical equivalent of i220 accessories, so it's not really i190/i200/i210 -> i150, it's i190/i200/i210 -> i220. If you're progressing in Savage and you haven't already cleared A4S, you should invest in at least 1 crafted accessory (eventually Eso gear + drops will get you to the point where you really only need 1). If you're doing Lucrezia's suicide strat in A4S you can technically go full STR, though I guess we'll see how viable that becomes in the future.