Do you shame people for their choice of materia melds?

[Fynlar]

Yeah, how absurd for a healer to think that the one stat that is meant solely for their role might have been an appropriate stat to meld


(Not digging at you, just the people that would "shame" a healer for doing this)

[Amaterasu_]

I shame no one

[Maero]

I do not because at the end of the day it is their sub and they can do whatever.
I remember having seen a blm in HW who has fully melded with piety, i cringed but did not say anything

[Barraind]

If I see someone not melded, I'll judge them solely on the complete lack of effort they put into putting even +40's of some relevant stat in their gear (which are a 100% return now, so no reason not to have at least those).

[Kanitezz]

I haven't heard of materia shaming. I've heard of glamour shaming.

[Bacent]

I had someone yell at me in a dungeon for not having all my base materia slots melded last year, and him and his friends demanded me to meld it (Since I had full 70's and materia on hand and empty materia slots 'piss him off') or I could just sit there and not finish the instance. So I put a bunch of my spellspeed I's on my Bard and went 'fully melded'. I got kicked from the dungeon and was talking to a GM only a few minutes later. They happened to be on Cerberus (Where I was on at the time) and so I went to hang outside of their FC house for a while. Other people in the FC refused to even acknowledge me being there..... I mean I was still in my bard stuff with the spellspeed I's on soooooooooo.

[Naoki34]

I only check meld of my teamate when they can't dps/hold aggro. After that... You know where's the prob... #noobSpotted => BL

[TaleraRistain]

Who are these people who are doing so little in dungeons they have time to examine other's gear and get judgy about it? If it's a situation like a static and you see the people all the time, then constructive feedback to help the group is warranted. But why are you examining some random mook you'll probably never encounter again? And why are you doing that instead of doing your job in the content?

[Barraind]

Who are these people who are doing so little in dungeons they have time to examine other's gear and get judgy about it?

Inspecting people is how you get answers to questions like:

Why are these pulls dying so slow?
How is this dps doing less damage than the healer?
Why does that dps have 13k hp less than the healer?
Is that really their search info or did I misssee it?
Is this tank just bad at everything or is he super undergeared?
HOW HAS THIS PULL NOT DIED YET? IM ON MY SECOND RAMPART?

As well as posting pictures of interesting glam or silly character names in discord.

I inspect most people I end up with in EX trials because theres someone who always has to afk as soon as they load in, or zones slower than my laptop (which is a feat in itself).

[Ryaz]

You can try to shame me all you like .. But I fully plan to do a max SkS materia set for my Monk when I get to 80. I just wanna see how low I can get that GCD. I don't care about the DPS, I just wanna see how it plays XD

I've currently got 2444 skill speed on my Samurai to hit the 1.99 GCD mark with Shifu buff which is one of our sweet spots for our opener/rotation. Had to over meld my ring 4 times to get there.