DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[Delsus]

I don't know if you're being serious or sarcastic, but please don't use the materia melded gear argument if you don't know what you're talking about. There are some pieces that you just can't replicate with materia melds, want an example? Check the Darklight Corselet and tell me one body piece that even has as much STR+, Acc+, Att+, Critical att+, AND Store TP+ all on one piece of gear.

Out of all those stats the Corselet gives, only the Critical att+ materia is something you can attach to a body piece. Oh right, and I'm not taking into consideration the amount of money it takes to successfully do double melds or more to finally end up with something that is actually useful.

The materia system is FINE as it is now. I hope SE doesn't touch it.

Yes I was being sarcastic, because if they did what the OP is asking we would get ONE gearset for each class each patch because one will always be worthless.

Also it really doesn't matter about where you can meld things, if I have alot of money and I choose to go for 5x meld on all my gear (yes I know it will take forever and cost many many many many millions of gil, or i'm the luckyest sob in the world, but i'm taking this to huge extremes) over my whole gearset, not indevidual pieces my gear, will be better than darklight, but as far as I care, the materia system could be toned back a little, for the time it takes to get the dungeon drops each patch you could use that time making money to go for melds and if you get lucky you can get gear that will be the best until 2.0 at the very least.

People have been commenting on doing dungeon runs 70+ times, why not spend that time making money for materia, and gear to SB for the ultimate epeen gear, if thats what really floats your boat, like it seems in the OP.

I have run the numbers on the MNK DRG BRD set and I have concluded to get the stats of that set you can from materia it takes, 1 head, 3 body, 3 hands and 3 weapon melds to match it (this bars crit rate and sTP becuase there is no materia for those yet) also if you want because we rarely miss now you can remove the acc because for atleast the bigger things we dont need more acc which would drop 4 weapon or hand melds, so its not that bad if you know how to meld most efficiantly. Gear set stats > best in slot stats.