pentamelding allows you to attach materia into crafted gear past the free slots up to 5 materia. you must level a crafter up to a certain level to unlock pentamelding in the bonfire in central thanalan with mutamix. the more you meld the harder it becomes forcing you to grab more materia just to fill the slot unless you get lucky. never go into endgame raiding with pentamelded gear if using crafted gear. every bit of damage counts when it comes to progging ultimate and savage fights especially when a 0.1% wipe could of been a clear instead. as for crafters and gatherers pentamelding allows you to craft with less hq materials and gather more efficently.
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Hopefully this helps anyone confused about pentamelding.
Zane, Zane, Zane…..pentamelding is my frenemy…..well more my enemy. 😂. I can’t tell you how many times I would try to get lucky to get a 4th meld in my crafter gear. Another great video. Oh! I know you know this but if you try to remove Materia, sometimes it will tell you there is a 40% chance of removal. Sometimes the chances are higher in successful removal. This is a penta pain in my ass!!
Thank you for breaking it down into ubderstanble terms. Man i wish my nursing professors could be as understabdable as you !