Yes, this is a serious thread. Hear me out for a second. I'm not inexperienced, but I am having a bit of a hard time wrapping this around my head. Now, I know that with each job, certain melds take priority. Like how NIN prioritizes Crit>DH>DET in one of the builds I found...I can look up stat priorities. That part I get.

But stat weights, while I suspect are similar, go completely over my head when I use a site like Ariyala and I have to plug in the stat weights. So many numbers, through my various google searches, and I cannot understand it. When putting on melds through the materia melder, the questions that run through my head go in this order:

- Should I do my accessories first?
- Should I do my left side first?
- That stat is maxed out, should I put this meld on another piece that may mess up the build that I am aiming for according to various guides?
- If two of these stats are maxed out, should I put the 3rd priority materia?

Picking up Anemos relic armor really threw me for a complete loop, so I'm honestly just totally, completely, undeniably lost. Plus I'm nowhere near my laptop, so going to the Balance this time is not much of an option. So I ask the ones who actually do have a working knowledge of how this works, can you explain this to me like I'm five?