OK thanks.

I see what you all mean about the progression between script gear < crafted < augmented scrip < overmelded crafted.

The thing is as I am just reaching endgame now, I simply don't have a lot of gil. I am up around 3 million and that is the most I've ever had. When I read about the expected prices for either buying the 320 HQ gear or overmelding, I just can't imagine my 3 million getting me very far. I've only ever seen 1 of each of the DOH VI materia and that was from M'Naago's custom delivery rank ups which are done.

So it seems to me that crafting and overmelding the 320 would involve :

a) making the 290 HQ gear and hopefully being able to gather mats for the 320 gear or else needing to buy them (or buy the 320 gear if it is cheaper)
including grind yellow scripts to get the alchemics

b) overmelding the 320 gear itself would require:

- needing to spirit bond a ton of stuff to get more VIs or buy it
- grind red scrips to buy more Vs or IVs or buy them
- use however many materia it takes

I anticipate that this will be more than I can afford to do with 3 million gil and since I can't really make anything that will sell, I'd be needing to grind the living daylights out of DoL mats anyway to be able to afford any of this.

So I thought grinding scrip gear might be a viable alternative.

If you only had 3 million gil at the this point in the expansion and were just hitting 70, what would you do?