What's the point of max-melding when we can literally craft everything HQ on our recipes? Personally, I am only melding a few cheap CP materia. I am going to wait until they release the new Mastet Books and green/blue gear before even thinking about advanced melding.

It would be rather silly to blow a few million on melding right now to craft our current easy recipes that could be done without melding. Surely, if you max meld now, you will have a very easy time when they release new recipes in he next patch. But the new recipes may contain new crafting gear that require melding again anyway. Thus, instead of max-meld, I would actually aim for a min-meld when I need more stats in the next patch!

For now, I'm just gonna sit around collecting materia, and meld them later when the time is right.