Why No Melds?

[AnaviAnael]

This is something that's been bothering me ever since the materia melder NPC was introduced. Why do people still not meld their gear? I'm asking this genuinely and honestly since I still see many people without a single meld in any of their gear.

Tier Vs can be acquired through Weeping City or potshards from Palace of the Dead. People don't have to level crafts or find a crafter in order to have it melded, only pay a 2k fee. I like to try and understand other points of view, but this one continues to baffle me. Do people not know that it's easier to meld up your stuff now?

Edit: Forgot to mention Tier IVs can be acquired through beast tribe quests.

[Zafrei]

Personally, some of my gear is currently melded and some it not. This is due to the fact we've just had new tiers of gear come out, and in my mind it's a waste for me to fill up the remaining meld slots when I'll be upgrading gear in the coming weeks.

If gear lasted us a much longer period of time, I suspect you'd see more player investment in each individual piece.

[Heliantheae]

Personally, some of my gear is currently melded and some it not. This is due to the fact we've just had new tiers of gear come out, and in my mind it's a waste for me to fill up the remaining meld slots when I'll be upgrading gear in the coming weeks.

If gear lasted us a much longer period of time, I suspect you'd see more player investment in each individual piece.

This, I'm not even going to put anything in the Alex gear and save up stuff for the Shire stuff.

[Dzian]

This is something that's been bothering me ever since the materia melder NPC was introduced. Why do people still not meld their gear? I'm asking this genuinely and honestly since I still see many people without a single meld in any of their gear.

Tier Vs can be acquired through Weeping City or potshards from Palace of the Dead. People don't have to level crafts or find a crafter in order to have it melded, only pay a 2k fee. I like to try and understand other points of view, but this one continues to baffle me. Do people not know that it's easier to meld up your stuff now?

Edit: Forgot to mention Tier IVs can be acquired through beast tribe quests.

Because I'm not melding something i'm gonna throw away / upgrade next month.

If gear lasted us a much longer period of time, I suspect you'd see more player investment in each individual piece.

Also this. why invest in melding throw away gear?

one of many problems with this game. Yoshi P wants players to focus on gear instead of character development but all gear is throw away junk.

[Welsper59]

If gear lasted us a much longer period of time, I suspect you'd see more player investment in each individual piece.

Much truth. The investment people would actively put on gear that lasts is worlds different than anything we get here. Honestly, the only thing we have to that is crafting and gathering gear. Unlike most areas of combat, the crafting/gathering scene actually has overall benefits and visible requirements for players to meet to even get access to nodes or crafted tiers. Of course, you'll still see some players not bother, just because that's how it is lol.

[MrsFluffyButt]

1. Don't have any materia to spare.
2. Don't want to waste Gil on them.
3. Just don't care about melding in general.
4. It's optional.

Take a pick OP, personally I meld my gear straight away due to easy materia from beast tribes and crafter friends free of charge. But like I said above, completely optional.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

I would imagine it is because of the rapid leveling progression of classes under 60 and the cost of materia in general. People don't see the need to spend money on materia for gear they will only use for a couple of levels and just discard it to upgrade to a higher level or dungeon gear.

Also I think lack of info as to the benefits of melded gear vs non or dungeon gear prior to lev 60.

I tend to meld my lower classes for dol/doh if I will be reusing the gear and if I will be using it for a while. My melding is primarily on lev 60 jobs/classes.

[Sarynth]

Main thing for me is the price of materia. With tier 5s running in the 3-400k per each, melding your gear (even guaranteed slots) is too pricey.

[Neophyte]

In my opinion, the thing is this game which is overrated the most is "GIL".
Before getting another few millions just for doing almost nothing (like desynthing old ilvl. 100 stuff for gold/wolfram ingots and battlecraft III or selling some crafting mats bought from the neverending rain of lore tombstones and gc seals) I rather put that gil into my gear.

Last tier my 3 most played classes had 30-40 materia V's attached to their gear and my money pretty much stagnated (or went slightly up) and I usually don't craft, I'm way to lazy to gather regulary and I don't sell clears. So I don't get that "Money Thing" unless you spent several millions each patch in glamours or housing. The game just throws it at you (shame we don't have "Gil toss" as an cross class ability for all classes.. talking about "buying clears", lol)

[LunarEmerald]

Main thing for me is the price of materia. With tier 5s running in the 3-400k per each, melding your gear (even guaranteed slots) is too pricey.

You don't have to meld Vs. Since I don't raid, I go with IVs. I don't need perfect stats but the extra bonus is still nice. You can easily get IVs for free doing beastman quests.

Or sell Vs you get and use the gil to buy IVs that are 1/5 the price.