I finished my outfit last night! I decided to go with all crafted, so Vanya with Astral and Rose Gold, plus the base Stardust Rod! Gathered the materials, crafted it up, even checked which dyes existed in Legacy/1.0 so I didn't go off concept. I melded various IV materia into the free slots on the gear.

...And then I went crazy.

I mean... I never did crafted gear in ARR. I had my gathering built up but I didn't have the crafting classes levelled and geared. I also had no gil. So I sat for a moment, marvelling at this crafted gear I'd never worn, and thought, "Man, I remember when people would penta-meld this stuff. Materia was so expensive then but now it's cheap and easy to spiritbond. ...What the hell, let's do this." Thus began my day-long quest to penta-meld iLv 70 gear from ARR to be worn by a SB Lv70 Black Mage doing an adaptation of the events ending Legacy/1.x. Trippy.

So now I stand in Ul'dah, all decked out and melded, getting strange looks -- as I wait for the damned Rising Recruiter to respawn. *heavy sigh*