Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
Incorrect.

There are far more expensive things that people can be saving up for. The biggest and most obvious of these would be that we've all but had Ishgard housing confirmed.

Your perspective is defined from a raider perspective, and that's fine. But it's also important to be aware that there are people in this game who have different end game goals from you. Yours is not the only correct point of view for how the game should be played, especially when we're talking about casual content.
If even just basic melds is too much then I'd imagine that housing would be way out of your league to begin with.
I mean even just by wearing gear and extracting materia eventually you'd end up with at least some melds, and you still get them from elsewhere too.

No one is even arguing that it's mandatory either.
It's moreso that some people seem to basically just insist on not doing things that are kinda expected and don't even require much effort.
I mean it's not '' mandatory '' to hit positionals either...

I wouldn't call the boost minimal either, way moreso if we include pentamelding.
In some scenarios it might even be necessary to reach certain sks points for your rotation.

I dunno if you're implying that casual content equates to no effort required or expected.
I think that most people expect other people to make an effort in a team game, so if you show up and you have no melds in at all then I think people are kinda justified to look at that negatively.
I am not saying you should be harassing people about it, but I think that people are correct to look at it with a critical eye even in casual content the same way that I think people are correct to do so if someone refuses to hit positionals because it's '' not necessary ''.

Basic melding is so simple and just straight up handed to you on a diamond-encrusted golden plate in the game that I think that framing this as if people have to '' go out of their way '' to do it is pushing it at least imo.
I think we're entering territories where people are just actively choosing not to do something because they cba just like not bothering with positionals.