Several hunderd million gil go into the making of some of the gear... and that's not close to what would have been spent in total to make it all. I'm still using a double meld INT Brand and trying to triple them and failing... I've stopped making my own double melds since the price of 16+16 Brands are around 5mil now.. I just buy one for 5mil and blow it up trying to triple. I've wasted about 30mil doing this, just for lightning brands. Thankfully now I bought a +52 INT Triple meld hat from the wards that was crazy cheap for 40mil....