If you penta-meld the ilvl 170 belt and all jewelry to absolute stat-cap (checked on Ariyala) and eat HQ seafood stew AND are specialist you get to 856 craftsmanship and 828 control, so yes you can do it that way, but this is already a massive amount of overmelding in addition to the time/gil sink of red scrips for ilvl 180, AND it still renders all the ilvl 180 accessories we got/get now useless for endgame crafting. So the point of my original post remains, those who invest(ed) into ilvl 180 gear got screwed over, and the new ilvl 180 accessories are a bad joke. Just as all the other points of my post remain, sadlyAnd shall we bet at latest half a year from now 4-star recipes will come with stats that are totally beyond anything but ilvl 170 gear pentamelded with tier V materia and being a specialist?