Quote Originally Posted by Mature View Post
Don't craft or buy MH OH or BODY . Get those as red scrip gear.

I find ariyala site confusing ,use garland tools and look for the item you wanna meld check stats and start melding from there.
I completely disagree. The ONLY pieces I've crafted are the main/offhands and chest. Each crafted tool can be melded with 4 extra CP, and each piece can be made with the equivalent of 1 (offhand) or 1.3(mainhand, chest) red crafter scrips in materials. So a total of 3.6 red crafter scrips plus some gathered/bought ooids, versus 70 red crafter scrips for the i180 set. That's almost 8 capped weeks of scrips! You can meld the crafter pieces to higher stats than the i180s using only grade IV materias. If you absolutely can't pull together the gil to do a few melds and are hell-bent on 3* crafts, maybe the i180s are an option, but I would never do it myself