melding lore gear

[Mimimisha_Mimomishima]

Anyone complaining about grade 4 materia needs to just suck it up and do the old world beastmen quests, even if you have never done any of them it literally takes 30 days to get all of them to rank 3 and start getting materia.

First 10 days -> Do all four beastman tribe dailies (3 quests per tribe)
Next 10 Days -> Do two of the beastman tribe dailies (each tribe now has 6 quests each)
Last 10 Days -> do the other two beastman tribe dailies (the last two tribes have 6 quests each)

Alternatively if you want to start earning materia at the 20 day mark after you get the first two tribes to rank 3 you can add an extra 10 days and do the 3 dailies from your rank 3 tribes to start earning Materia, and do the six of one level 2 tribe to get it up.

It doesn't take that much effort especially at level 60, also doing the rank 3 beastman quests gives you beastman tokens you can trade for unidentified items that you can use toward your relic or more importantly trade the unidentified items in for Grade 5 Carbon materia which you can hold on to or sell to get money for Grade 4 Carbon since Grade 4 can only be gathered right now.

[Dante_V]

Square Enix: "Due to the demand of penta melded accessories for tanks and their high cost we are revamping the way materia melding works and tanks damage calculation stats"

3.2: "Now everyone who wants to raid has to meld million dollar a piece materia to their previously unmeldable lore and alex armor... oh and the tank damage stat revamp inflated the value of secondaries of tanks even further increasing the demand of penta melds which will now be done with newer more expensive materia.

#rekt

Seems logical...

[Jim_Berry]

I have no reason to think you keep the materia because the i230 and i240 simply aren't the same item in the database.

Also, I have big problems in seeing why I should spend, just for the accessories, about 4 millions total in Strength Vs when I can spend 60k for IVs and have a mere 18 AP difference or so, out of 850+.

If some people want to call me "gimp" or whatever, all the more power for them but I'd invest that gil into power-leveling my crafts instead. That's just me though.

I'm with you. Only reason I have Tier V materia in my current slots is because I already had them before obtaining my first piece of Midan, Lore, and Crafted gear. I had already sold most of them on the MB before I knew people were really trying to get their hands on those.

After I sold some, then melded the rest, my melds are mostly Tier 4s for my current stuff: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/3089119/

[Hanayumi]

Im a bit curious to what I should meld, I main healers with sch top, and was originally thinking accuracy but second guessing myself since even melding all with accuracy V's wouldnt even reach the cap anyway so... any ideas?

[Melondra]

By the way the drop in Void ark for that grade 5 materia is not guaranteed and your rolling against 5 other players for it. You'll be lucky if it only takes a month to get one piece of materia.

[Nestama]

By the way the drop in Void ark for that grade 5 materia is not guaranteed and your rolling against 5 other players for it. You'll be lucky if it only takes a month to get one piece of materia.

Hm? I thought it was a weekly thing.

[Esper]

well, those people won't be part of any raiding teams.

lol raid teams, I remember when I had time for that... yeah... prefer not making time for it xD

[DGladius]

Hm? I thought it was a weekly thing.

It is a weekly item you get in your inventory once you beat echidna that you can trade for materia. No rolling needed.

[Melondra]

yea your right just cheked the patch notes on it you can only get one drop a week from there. eww that makes it even worse lol

[Melondra]

It is a weekly item you get in your inventory once you beat echidna that you can trade for materia. No rolling needed.

I ran it from beginning to end yesterday and did not receive one.