Quote Originally Posted by TheVedis View Post
and that fact is simple

its a pain in the ass to farm
It was equally a pain in the ass leveling DoL and DoH to meld my own gear as well. This is exactly why I said they simply just need to release more content with better drops once we're out of the rebuild phase. Look at any MMO, over the years the gear adds up and gets progressively better, melding materia on drop sets shifts the balance significantly towards melding only dropped gear which is already better than most vanilla gear in game. Why would you realistically want to craft and meld an armor piece when you can meld something even better using an U/U set?

The only reason to would be to change the color, and even that system has changed.