Any word on red crafting scrip cap?

[Kytrin]

Yep you need to meld pretty much using all available slots to be able to 2 star if using serpent skin set, there's a few guides on materia builds like budget set and highest set you can meld, it viaries but myself have all main hands and offhand for craft and 2/3 on gatherers, downsize is you can really efficiently gear gatherers job if going down the favor route unless you have an alt that could gather favours while using main to gear from red strips for gathering classes

Nope, no alt to do that with. I'll try looking for guides on melding sets though. I don't mind the extra work for the HQ 170 crafted set if it means I don't have to spend over a year grinding freaking red scrips. Because, I'm sorry, that is all kinds of stupid and ridiculous.

[LystAP]

Nope, no alt to do that with. I'll try looking for guides on melding sets though. I don't mind the extra work for the HQ 170 crafted set if it means I don't have to spend over a year grinding freaking red scrips. Because, I'm sorry, that is all kinds of stupid and ridiculous.

You could always get the normal 170 set for WVR, LWR and etc... so that you would be able to craft the HQ versions later. If you got MIN and BOT, it'll only be a inconvenience for the moment. It doesn't take that much to gather favors, the hard part is the crafting; I can already get 8/8 with what I already have.