Why No Melds?

[Lexia]

It is the same thing, though. You're keeping yourself at a minimal chance for success and leaving wipes as a more likely outcome by unmelding. You might as well be at the bare minimum ilvl.

All the debate has moved from needing the best gear to having the best gear with melds. Gear/melds does not equal skill, it not going to make a "bad" player better, cause you know can polish a turd but it still a turd.

On an separate note:
Maybe if the gear was not pretty much throw away gear that always being replaced and the content was harder that needed melds maybe more people would take the time to meld their gear.

[Dumbledoremd]

Im waiting until i can upgrade the new vendor gear using the new tower like they did with weeping city

[HyoMinPark]

I think the decision to meld (or not to meld) should just be left up to the player. Some don't want to meld, some meld tier IV, some meld tier V, some pentameld tier V. I don't raid, but I recently got into melding, and yeah, maybe it's not a significant DPS increase or whatever, but I feel like I do more with the melds (plus I love seeing that 1,000+ crit when I look at my BRD XD). I couldn't do full tier V on my augmented lore, but I plan to do full tier V on at least BRD and DRK since those are the two jobs I main. I have plenty of potsherds saved up to help, and Gil doesn't really matter to me to the point where I am torn between melding and selling. I used to always sell my weekly tier V back when they came from VA, but now I'm happy with using them, even if it is only temporary. I play enough to at least make them worth the 3 months between patches (my opinion here).

Just let people who meld, meld, and those who don't, well, let them too. To each their own. :3

Edit: I don't do Savage content, but I have been getting more into EX primals, and been considering testing out some Savage. However, when I started melding, I wasn't doing savage or EX primals. XD

And I do question the usefulness of the elemental materia. But for some reason the tier V's sell for around 50k a piece for some on my server and I have gotten a lot of them from PotD so. Guess that works. XD

[Dzian]

How many times, especially in PUGs, have you wiped on a boss at 1%? 2%? 3? 10? That's why I meld my gear. I can't always rely on PUGs to be half competent, so I meld my gear because not only do I enjoy it, it also lessens how dependent on randoms I am.

I'm my experience most of those 1-3% wipes are from things that wouldn't really be aided by material. It's things like no one standing on the pads to catch meteors or something mechanical like that.

My last wipe was in a7 normal yesterday for tails. And the reason for the wipe was simply that everyone ignored the hearts and stuck on the boss.

No amount of melding will really prevent those wipes happening.

[Evangela]

The new raids don't have any deadly dps check so I think we don't need to meld materia anymore. I did it for i240 gears but will probably not doing it this patch.

[whiteblade89]

I don't meld materia to gear that either isn't upgradable, or isn't already upgraded. It's a waste to meld those pieces, but then again the gain is marginal at best. I don't do savage raids, but I like killing shit quickly. That's my bag. That's why I meld, but it's all optional anyway. I can't for the life of me understand why these forums are chalk full of people who are so concerned with what others are doing or not doing. For Gordias savage, I see why melds would be required. But all the new content (save for creator savage, not sure how that stacks up yet) can be cleared efficiently without materia.

[Synestra]

I always meld everything even if it gets replaced fast because i simply cant stand seeing those empty slots in there.

[myahele]

Why not form a party of like-minded individuals with full melded gear to run theses dungeons and trials with?

[lulunami]

If you are not raiding, it is not a big deal if you do not meld. Personally I meld my primary job with materia just to give it all I got since I have plenty of gil from crafting and gathering. If you want the very best gear, you want to have optimum melds within your own financial means.

However, player skill makes more of a difference than materia melds in most situations.

[Wadey]

I meld everything I get, even if it's just putting III/IV in the slots, because otherwise I feel like I'm not making the effort to do the most DPS I possibly can.

If you don't wanna meld your gear that's your choice. I just can't stand seeing empty slots on my gear.