Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
While I admit I went through about 9 million gil pentamelding my DoH/DoL Aesthete gear at the final bit of ShB after I ran through several hundred of each type of materia I had stockpiled (I did not have good overmelding luck that crafter tier...), and I managed to get through with only like 900k on pentamelding my gear this time -- mostly for one slot, because apparently all my bad luck was concentrated on that one particular ring -- I had someone mention in a despairing tone on Discord earlier tonight that they'd spent more than thirty million gil on materia for pentamelding their DoH/DoL gear in the past week, and I just about swallowed my own tongue.
30 million I would have punched a hole in the wall with my voice. That's incredibly unlucky! I thought 14mil was...."exceptable"...as I have got it all back already...but man! 30mil is disgusting. Some are lucky...some aren't I suppose.