Why No Melds?

[heynowjose]

I keep up with ILV and have my sophia weapons on all my 60s but I don't meld bc it's not needed. I just don't see the point. I can clear all the content I want to clear without melding. I can sell materia for money to spend on things I do want to do, like housing for example or crafting. Melding has no benefit for my gameplay or gaming experience so I just don't bother.

[Bdyer]

I sell it all that way I can shove the pile of Gil in other peoples faces >

[Musashidon]

the same reason why i watch netflix while i run content, because i can.

[RyuSaarva]

the same reason why i watch netflix while i run content, because i can.

that makes no sense, you shold play something you like.

[KitingGenbu]

This thread is starting to turn into a conversation with a child that asks a question and continuously asks "why" regardless of how many answers you give. The bottom line is this: people don't want to do it lol. Regardless of how illogical it seems to the people saying they should, its irrelevant because there's no weight to it. Nothing is going to happen to the person if they meld or not assuming they don't do Savage. Sure, melding could shave them a few more seconds off of their roulette if and when they do them, but some people aren't that critical about it. I also understand that the people arguing for melding pretty much want the player base to care, but I see it like this: if people honestly cared about content as much as some people think they do, our Savage clear rate numbers would be higher. Just saying.

[Dzian]

I find it a bit puzzling myself on why people would not use melds. Why would you not want to make your character stronger? Bottom line is you should use melds it does increase your dps.

It was a fairly hot topic recently that players do want to make there characters stronger. but Yoshi p responded and said he doesn't want that to happen. he wants players to focus on gear instead. the problem with this is that the gear is so short lived. Melding then doesn't make your character stronger at all. what it does is just make your gear stronger. that same piece of gear you will be throwing away in a couple of weeks because you've got some thing better. so there's no point in melding it.

it's kind of connected to why people don't raid because the rewards aren't worth it. the 240 midangear people got form clearing it was tossed for 250 crafted stuff soon as 3.4 hit. so seriously what value does gear hold? holds no value at all. and as a result it's not worth investing in. which is simply why people don't bother. glamour is a bigger motivator than strength.

would you invest in customising your car if you were gonna get a new one next month?

A better question is why so many people don't use food. Far cheaper than materia's ever been, even the cheap stuff's a decent bonus, boosts vit that's likely already at the cap, and there's even incentive for folks to use it while leveling with the xp bonus.

I don't use food either, because I never miss so I don't need accuracy. and my gear was 30 levels above the expert dungeons and 10 levels above creator before the patch was even installed. basically already out gearing everything.

the only time I've ever used food on a battle class was back in arr for coils.

as for the 3% exp bonus. it's negligible at best. whats that 1 maybe 2 extra trash kills in a dungeon. if it was that important i'd just kill the mobs everyone usually skips and get the extra 3% exp that way.

The problem for both food and materia is they simply aren't needed at all for what is something like 99% of the games content. because players out gear so much of the content even before it's implemented.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

would you invest in customising your car if you were gonna get a new one next month?

Adding in materia has less to do with customising your car, and more to do with giving it tune ups, though the analogy still fails because you don't just trash your car, you sell it. That being said though, yes, yes I would if I had the spare cash. Gil is completely worthless in this game, so might as well use it for something!

[SessionZero]

Gil is completely worthless in this game, so might as well use it for something!

Glamour Is The True Endgame™

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Glamour Is The True Endgame™

This is only true when you don't have a glamour you like. :'P I've had pretty much all my glamours set in stone once I got them, and there really aren't that many good looking sets at all in this game, especially for my tastes. Too much slutty beachwear, not enough tasteful sets.

But if it makes you happy, fine, gil is useless to me.