Please release nest Normal and Savage raids at the same time.

[Kosmos992k]

The meld problem is why Coil pissed off the devs.

They don't want you using melded gear to clear raids quicker than you would if you had to get the gear the way you do. Probably part of why accessories are the first few Savage drops. Though they could solve that problem by outright *REMOVING* overmelds.

I'd like to see that happen, or at lest limit overmelds to 1 additional materia instead of always permitting pentamelds, but only if the best materia was not available through conversion, but rather as rare drops in the expert level dungeons and Ex primals (to blunt some of the abuse by RMT bots). Then you could use crafted gear and superior materia obtained by running something other than Alex Normal.

That way players could run a variety of content in order to gear for Savage mode, and usena combination of Alex normal, ESO and crafted/melded gear, would that not successfully address the issues?

Always a possibility. Of course folks will protest, especially since pentamelds are almost necessary for crafters.

Gonna hit post cap here shortly, so I'll probably be back later. Or tomorrow. ><

Yup hit post cap.

I'll reply by editing my post for the same post cap reason. Pentamelded crafting gear could be removed by supplementing a couple of stats on main gear pieces and dropping the two smallest melds on existing pentamelded gear. There would be no penalty oncrafters then, and future crafter gear could use materia gathered in combat as suggested. This would give players who don't craft something extra to do & sell to crafters for decent gil.