New player feedback

[Altena]

But there isn't overmelding for raid/tome gear..... You can only do safe-slot melds.
If that's what you're talking about, then it requires very little additional effort to do some hunts and farm the materia you need for your safe slots.

The only overmelding you can do is on crafted gear - which is not as high an iLvl as tome/raid gear.
If you removed overmelding, you effectively make crafted gear at endgame completely pointless.
This just further reduces the point of having crafters at end game..

It also gives people the illusion of customization in the sense that they can choose to focus on certain substats more than their pre-built options, which can only a good thing in the game.

If you're having gil issues, then you should consider finding ways to make your own.
We already need gil for very little in this game. At least give us something to dump it into.

Just because you don't wish to spend time earning game currency, doesn't mean you should limit gearing options even further for those of us who wish to utilize these options (in this extremely linear gear progression game).

This game barely has enough uses for gil as it is.. Taking away a use for it for end-game players is just nonsensical.