Why No Melds?

[CaptainLagbeard]

Upgrading gear or replacing it takes away your Materia, so I'll leave Melding V-Rank materia for the hardcore raiders...

Imma just stick with putting IV-rank ones on my gear because I won't miss that when it's gone.

[RyuSaarva]

Upgrading gear or replacing it takes away your Materia, so I'll leave Melding V-Rank materia for the hardcore raiders...

Imma just stick with putting IV-rank ones on my gear because I won't miss that when it's gone.

no, overmelding V materias is for the harcore raiders.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Have to agree it is a huge waste of gil, although I always put t5 on highest tome gear and t4 on lore,alex etc. I would rather they slowed down on gear upgrades and making new armour and actually just gave us new content, dungeons etc. Also nothing stopping the other dungeons dropping same gear as another dungeon/raid etc.

[SendohJin]

Have to agree it is a huge waste of gil, although I always put t5 on highest tome gear and t4 on lore,alex etc. I would rather they slowed down on gear upgrades and making new armour and actually just gave us new content, dungeons etc. Also nothing stopping the other dungeons dropping same gear as another dungeon/raid etc.

What are you going to do the new content for if it has no rewards?

[MomomiMomi]

What are you going to do the new content for if it has no rewards?

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[aesteval]

Just use IVs people! They're super cheap and can even get em for free from the ARR beast tribes. All that nonsense about "wasting gil" is just laziness and being bad.

Funny thing. I'm partial to running beast tribes. I have them all maxed. I like getting IV materia from them. It's still soul crushing to do each and every day to meet the potential materia needs. :-p Well, maybe not soul crushing - but sometimes you need a break.

*potential materia needs usually involves me blowing up materia I shouldn't be blowing up

[aesteval]

The excuses from the non-melders in this thread just keep coming.

Excuses? Pfft. :-p I've melded plenty of gear but I will not fault someone who thinks that melding materia into gear that is soon to be obsolete is futile. :-p It's even worse that augmenting tome gear destroys existing materia so that it's more like you're getting an entirely new piece of gear vs doing what the name implies, augmenting.

[Mandudez]

Excuses? Pfft. :-p I've melded plenty of gear but I will not fault someone who thinks that melding materia into gear that is soon to be obsolete is futile. :-p It's even worse that augmenting tome gear destroys existing materia so that it's more like you're getting an entirely new piece of gear vs doing what the name implies, augmenting.

Everything becomes obsolete after a certain time in MMO's.

[aesteval]

Everything becomes obsolete after a certain time in MMO's.

Meanwhile my crafting and gathering gear will last a year and potentially spiritbond many times over. Battle gear? Maybe it will be spiritbonded before it's replaced. Maybe it won't. There are pieces of battle gear I've just received and I already have obsolescence plans for.

[Derio]

If your not raiding then its unnecessary.