Materia meld caps for Disciples of Land

[Raldo]

Yeah... that's awfully strange. I would suggest doing
• Gatherer's Gurdeon III (+5 Gathering)
• Gatherer's Guile II (+4 Perception)
• Gatherer's Gurdeon I (+3 Gathering)
• Gatherer's Grasp I (+1 GP)

You could also do as you suggested and use a T4 instead to max meld the whole thing in a mere 3 melds.

Ultimately, it's going to come down to market prices/availability, and how much you are okay with blowing up materia. Personally, I prefer what I've stated above, because blowing up T1 materia isn't expensive, and it eschews the need for a T4. As always, guides are more guildlines, rather than hard and fast rules. Do whatever works best for you.

It is worth noting that there's definitely at least one mistake in their list of melds though, since the gloves only hold +4 Perception, yet they have Gatherer's Guile II listed twice (which would add up to +8).

[ddaydj]

Why did you pick 2 Guerdon II (+4 each) over one Guerdon IV (+8)?

The idea behind my melds is that I get 600 GP from accessories and then I can ignore it on all other pieces. I'm not sure about your server, but on mine T4 gathering materia are around 300k each and there are pretty much none on market.

I haven't checked my doc for errors since I finished my melds for personal gear. If people are going to use it as a reference though I'll go ahead and fix any mistakes. I know I need to correct the gathering cap on the bracelet. I was also going to add something for the offhand, but I still need to figure out the gathering cap. Right now I'm burning all my gil trying to meld Vanya (so much gil gone in seconds...).

[RatedKh]

A little correction about Militia Bracelets for the OP, Gathering cap is 4 not 3.



Also not too sure if it was mentioned, but the Perception cap (as in max amount of Perception possible with materia) is 387, no room for any more on my Miner.

As of right now my stats are:

- GP 600 (stopped adding more GP when I reached that sweet spot)
- Gathering 376
- Perception 387

[Bloodclaw]

Thanks for the help!

[DukeBurden]

Hey, guys. I'm trying to reach 600 GP on my Botanist(no plans for higher Gathering or Perception just yet as I haven't found a need to boost it) and wondering where I should affix my GP material to. Also, with GP+ Materia IV being kind of expensive, does anyone here actually use it? o. O I need 27 more GP for 600 and was planning on just using 9 Materia IIIs. Any advice would help, thanks!

[Shirai]

The idea behind my melds is that I get 600 GP from accessories and then I can ignore it on all other pieces. I'm not sure about your server, but on mine T4 gathering materia are around 300k each and there are pretty much none on market.

Thank you for the clarification.
And yes, you are right. The IV materia are indeed rare and bloody steep compared to their lower counterparts.
I was curious is all.

Right now I have only had a friend meld my gear so far as getting at 340 gathering for the unspoiled node caps.
I am now leveling my crafting jobs so that I don't have to make my friends constantly apologize to me for blowing up forbidden melds even though the risks are all mine to take.

[Mithrie]

Thanks for this thread I found it very helpful. Here is how I've done my melding sticking to the 600 GP and as much Perception targets as possible.



Edit - This is how I did all my melding for all sets. Thankfully melding for Gathering classes is extremely cheap. I have made a video where I explain it all here if it's of any interest to anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jTlIuyjSUI

[Chizukeki]

Hi!

Theoretical maximum : Gathering 372 , Perception 387 , GP 624

(without food)

( I suppose that our Off Hand's caps are Gathering ?, Perception 20 and GP 4, but use only 4x5 Perception and 1x4 GP)

Is that right? Its only theoretical

Anyone knows the Offhand perception cap even its usless ?

[Wyyote]

Hi!

Anyone knows the Offhand perception cap even its usless ?

I believe the OH perception cap is 20. Was mentioned on page 4.

[Chizukeki]

Oops, i mean Gathering ... Perception is of course 20, sorry ;D