Why No Melds?

[Claire_Pendragon]

10k is still pretty damn cheap. I don't know why you would play an RPG and not care about making your character as strong as you can.

its the equivalent of farming Lv1 mobs for months trying to get a level up, rather than doing what is more efficient with your time.
(which is dependent on what they have available for making gil.) if they run out of gil now, and cant make enough gil for the upgraded gear, they wasted time having to go out and farm more, when they could have just waited for the better gear.
Similar to RPGs who have cheap crap gear, and decent priced/decent gear u can get in a few kills, why waste the money, when u can go straight to the better stuff quicker if u dont waste the money? (Looking at Dragon Quest. After u buy the cheap gear, by the time u afford the expensive gear, you out leveled the boss, so its better to just buy the expensive stuff, to stay within level range, and not waste time on needless grinding)

[Atoli]

I don't know why you would play an RPG and not care about making your character as strong as you can.

Because I can? For example, I play Pokemon with the ones I find cute, which are almost always babies, never fully evolved ones.
I'm always amused by people who tell me "THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO EVOLVE, WHY DO YOU KEEP THEM WEAK ON PURPOSE?!"
I also try to beat most RPGs with the least amount of grind possible, and NEVER get to level 99 or whatever the max is of that particular game.
Because it is more fun/more of a challenge that way, and because I don't see any reason to spend time on getting any stronger than what I absolutely need to. If I can beat it on a very low level, why would I bother getting stronger than that?
Sounds like nothing but a waste of time to me

I mean, this is like saying "Why would you buy Scripture gear or farm alex normal? You don't need it".

Actually, I've said that on this very forum again and again. To be exact, to everyone who always comes here to complain about the weekly grind for tomes despite not raiding - if you don't enjoy the grind for grinding's sake, AND you don't NEED the gear for savage, just don't bother..^^
I know lots of people who do not care about capping tomes each week. I even know some who do not farm Alex NM at all (only did it once for the story).
They do just fine in normal content, and why wouldn't they, after all, SE makes it pretty clear what ilvl is required for which content..

I just love when people are like this, and then rage when they wipe on something like A12 normal at 5%.

Better gear than minimum ilvl has always been nothing but a safety net. It helps to deal with mess-ups, but if you do not mess up, it is not required at all (how common mess-ups are in pug groups is a different topic entirely, though).
My best friend cleared Sophia EX 10 lvl below minimum ilvl, no melds. So what does that make her?

I could get behind a stance of "I get stronger because it is a MMO, since that will make it easier on the other people I play with" but "I get stronger because it is an RPG"? Makes no sense to me at all.

[Ophie-Mio]

All content besides Savage can be cleared easily without it. Why waste the money or the effort? Min-maxing certainly can't be noticed when outside of Savage so...once again, why bother? I can personally clear everything without melds and when I don't meld my gear, I don't notice their absence.

[Reptiletc]

I mostly only meld into "finished" gear, so I most likely won't meld any rank V materia into my 260 gear until I turn it 270. Maybe a few rank IV crit and SS materia here and there.

[Velox]

I only play 2 days a week, sometimes 3...for a handful of hours each day. Having materia melded is not going to make or break anything for me because I lack the time to get them and I lack the time to do the content that would require them.

[ElHeggunte]

IV's are free and so easy to get that any reason you can come up with for not using them just seems like an excuse to be lazy. Just try saying it out loud:

"Nope, I'm going to turn down a free upgrade to character strength that only requires a few minutes of my time every few months"

That's what most of the people in this thread sound like to me.

Maybe once upon a time when you could only get good materia through extensive spiritbonding and praying to the RNG gods would not melding make sense, but at this point in the game where IV's are so easy to get that SE may as well cut out the middleman and mail you some once a day I can't fathom why anyone would refuse to at least use them on their main character and class.

[Claire_Pendragon]

IV's are free and so easy to get that any reason you can come up with for not using them just seems like an excuse to be lazy. Just try saying it out loud:

"Nope, I'm going to turn down a free upgrade to character strength that only requires a few minutes of my time every few months"

That's what most of the people in this thread sound like to me.

Maybe once upon a time when you could only get good materia through extensive spiritbonding and praying to the RNG gods would not melding make sense, but at this point in the game where IV's are so easy to get that SE may as well cut out the middleman and mail you some once a day I can't fathom why anyone would refuse to at least use them on their main character and class.

I only TODAY learned u can get free g4 materia from beastmen tribes. (I have rep in 3.0 beastmen tribes, and ixali only)
So its going to take a lot longer than what u suggest, for someone like me. (plus most of the people I know dont know this, nor have any rep yet in beastmen tribes)

[MomomiMomi]

IV's are free and so easy to get that any reason you can come up with for not using them just seems like an excuse to be lazy. Just try saying it out loud:

"Nope, I'm going to turn down a free upgrade to character strength that only requires a few minutes of my time every few months"

That's what most of the people in this thread sound like to me.

Maybe once upon a time when you could only get good materia through extensive spiritbonding and praying to the RNG gods would not melding make sense, but at this point in the game where IV's are so easy to get that SE may as well cut out the middleman and mail you some once a day I can't fathom why anyone would refuse to at least use them on their main character and class.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

[Zojha]

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

And even death costs you your life.

[Atoli]

"Nope, I'm going to turn down a free upgrade to character strength that only requires a few minutes of my time every few months"

You make it sound as if we are not getting the materia.
That is not the case.
Close to everyone who responded to this thread who does not/only selectively meld materia said they do not MELD it.
Not one word about not GETTING it in the first place.
We just choose to sell it instead, to spend the money on things that are more worthwhile to us