Best materia setup for crafters?

[Rehwyn]

I'm not sure how it is on Legacy servers, but at least on my non-Legacy server, Tier IV materia are grossly more expensive than Teir III and below. In fact, there is less than a full sales log for most of them on the market board. Just to give you an idea, Control IV is 300-450k, Control III is like 25k, Control II around 15k, Control I around 1.5-2k. Another notable example is CP IV at 70k, CP III at 10k, CP II at 2k, and CP I at 500g.

Because of this, I've come up with some alternatives melds for every piece except Body and Off-Hand that still cap the possible stats but do not use grade IV materia. Think of these as "budget" alternative approaches that generally require more meld attempts, but with cheaper materia. It also is a little more "modular" in that you can add the guaranteed III/II melds for much cheaper than IV melds and then add the remaining materia as your funds allow it.

Had to split the post due to character limit... please see next post.

[Rehwyn]

Note: Over-melded materia can be performed in an alternative order based on your server prices.

Off-Hand: No optimal budget alternative
Head: Control III, Craft II | Control I, Control I
Body: No optimal budget alternative
Hands: Control III, Craft II | Control I, Control I
Legs: Control III, CP III | Control I, Control I, Craft I
Feet: Control III, CP III | Control I, Control I, Craft I

Belt: Control III | CP III, Craft I, Control I, Control I OR Control III | Control II, CP II, Craft I, CP I
Choker: Control III | CP II, CP II, Craft I, CP I
Ears: Control III | CP II, CP II, CP II, Craft I OR Control III | CP III, CP II, Craft I, CP I
Wrists: Control III | CP III, CP III, Craft II, Control I
Rings: Control III | CP III, Craft I, Control I, Craft I OR Control III | Craft II, CP II, Control I, CP I

I have not personally tested the Earring approach listed, but believe it should work fine. Hope this is useful to some people!

[Angron]

Would love to get something like this for gathering classes. Would anyone have a link to one or know if one exists?

[Raldo]

Would love to get something like this for gathering classes. Would anyone have a link to one or know if one exists?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ciples-of-Land

[Spider-Dan]

Just FYI, I made a spreadsheet a while back with meld order, shopping lists, etc:

http://viperbeam.com/ffxiv/doh_materiacaps.xls

[Raldo]

Offhand (HQ Militia): 19 Craftsmanship; 11 Control; 3 CP
- It is impossible to reach all the stat caps on this, so it's your pick what you meld.

You can reach all the 2-star stat thresholds without melding anything at all onto your offhand, so most people would recommend Control/CP on the offhand, however if you're not max-melding everything, you can choose to throw Craftsmanship on it if you prefer.

[SchalaZeal]

You can reach all the 2-star stat thresholds without melding anything at all onto your offhand, so most people would recommend Control/CP on the offhand, however if you're not max-melding everything, you can choose to throw Craftsmanship on it if you prefer.

I max meld every accessory and every AF piece except the body.

Then put Craftsmanship +5 x2 on body, and x1 on offhand to hit 358 craftsmanship.
Gives me enough to HQ 2-star without food for 80 durability, without using Hasty Touch. But I lack CP (with 345) to HQ 1-star mats.

[Alistaire]

I would say make a note at the start of the OP about meld order just to look on your server's AH and go most expensive to least for order. On Sargatanas a craftmanship tier 1 is actually more expensive than a CP tier 2 so some of those orders might be flipped a bit.

[Ronyx]

Anyone have a Materia setup for Gathering Jobs too? There must be like a camp on perception I guess to reach 15% on Star items and maybe a cap on Gathering as well to almost reach 100% chance.

[Raldo]

Anyone have a Materia setup for Gathering Jobs too?

DoL subforum... currently thread #4...
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ciples-of-Land