Is there crafting gear between 430 and 490???

[Sililos]

Was looking to make some Aesthete's jewelry and noticed i didn't meet the minimum stats.
Saw all my gear is at 430 level so thought ok, time to find some upgrades.
Looking at my Goldsmiths Master recipes I found nothing.
It seemed to go from Dwarven at 430, nothing, then Aesthete's at 490 but being uncraftable with 430 gear.

Am I missing something?
How are we supposed to bridge that gap?

I know there is the Script gear at 500 But where is the middle ground to get us up to Aesthete's minimum stats to craft?

Im HOPING I have just missed something, because its pretty damn lazy and poorly designed/thought out if they decided to just make the next set out of reach with available gear.

[Moomba33]

There is i460 Facet crafting gear. Only the tools and leftside though, no accessories.

In my personal opinion you had might as well just get the i500 scrip gear since the expansion is so close.

[Sililos]

Pretty much what im doing now sadly.
I have tried to avoid it because you cant meld it and everywhere i look everyone says "Ignore blue gear, get green and pentameld" (Something I have never been able to do, Materia past 2 never attaches for me lol)

So sounds like Im not gonna be able to craft stuff even with full blue gear i guess.
Im finding thats the case with my gatherer in diadem, full 500 blue gear BUT almost none of the nodes extra traits such as +Integrity are unlocked due to lacking the min requirements.
Really wish "best gear" would at least cover you for the basics.

[Halivel]

So sounds like Im not gonna be able to craft stuff even with full blue gear i guess.

You will be able to craft almost everything in blue scrip gear. It's hard to go for HQ for last patch gear on it, and sometimes it requiers food to cross stat requirements, but generally last Blue Scrip gear is your second best option if you can't afford/craft pentamelded BiS.

[Liam_Harper]

Pretty much what im doing now sadly.
I have tried to avoid it because you cant meld it and everywhere i look everyone says "Ignore blue gear, get green and pentameld" (Something I have never been able to do, Materia past 2 never attaches for me lol)

White scrip gear will be better than Facet gear, even without the ability to meld. It will also be perfectly fine for leveling in Endwalker. Think of scrip gear as catch-up or the basic endgame set.

The main issue with White Scrip gear is the lack of CP since you can't meld, making it hard to use for 4 star endgame crafts. But for everything else, Scrip is fine.

[Kes13a]

Pretty much what im doing now sadly.
I have tried to avoid it because you cant meld it and everywhere i look everyone says "Ignore blue gear, get green and pentameld" (Something I have never been able to do, Materia past 2 never attaches for me lol)

So sounds like Im not gonna be able to craft stuff even with full blue gear i guess.
Im finding thats the case with my gatherer in diadem, full 500 blue gear BUT almost none of the nodes extra traits such as +Integrity are unlocked due to lacking the min requirements.
Really wish "best gear" would at least cover you for the basics.

at this stage, unless you seriously plan to craft end game gear, its pointless to worry about getting the 490 that you can penta. it is better off to go with the blue 500, and wait until the next expansion.

[Reinha]

You're better off wearing scrip gear and putting the effort into leveling DoH and DoL early in Endwalker. Now's the time to get xp buffs from squadron, clean up retainers and save up VII/VIII materia for the base level 90 set.