Gathering Melding and Best in Slot Gear Meldsets For FFXIV Dawntrail Patch 7.51

This is our main "Best in Slot" meldset available providing increased efficiency while gathering.

This set is designed around breakpoints for patch 7.4 values for Cosmic Exploration breakpoints. With 7.51, food advice has changed. The best food to use is Goldentail Pie for Legendary Nodes, Cloudsail Meuniere for Auxesia collectables, or Nasi Goreng whenever you simply want GP. The main chance is the addition of Goldentail Pie as you can hit +3 Yield, +2 Integrity and 30% Boon Bonus on the latest legendary nodes with the relic + meld adjustments (if you already melded).

Benefits Include:

• Able to hit all important breakpoints on legendary nodes.
• Able to hit key skill breakpoints in Cosmic Exploration.
• Plenty of gathering meaning 7.5X's Legendary Fish will have no issues.
• Enough GP to allow you to perform the 1000GP collectable rotation foodless simply using the additional GP gained when hitting the node.

Downsides:

• More expensive than the Mid Tier set but more yield, the benefits are not that drastic to be worth using on 7.4's legendary nodes alone.
• Unable to hit Bountiful Yield 2 +3 breakpoint on glv 730/750 nodes (5949/6253 Gathering).

Meld Adjustments With 7.51

Any players who haven’t yet melded can ignore this section.

• Swap the final meld in pants from GP to a Perception IV to hit 5600 Perception with food.
• 1 Grade XII and 1 Grade XI swapped from Gathering to Perception to hit all legendary node bonuses and more Auxesia breakpoints.

For players wanting to look at the previous meldset our remelds are referring to check here.

This is our Mid Tier gathering set for the current Endgame gear offering lower stats and therefore less yield but having much easier melding. This is planned around cheaper overmelds in general and less overmelds to save even more gil while still hitting important breakpoints.

There is an optional meld addition where you can add 19 GP to be able to do the 1000 GP rotation for collectables using Nasi Goreng. Or 53 GP to be able to hit the integrity node bonus on 7.4's legendary nodes using Stuffed Peppers.

Benefits Include:

• Significantly cheaper than the High Tier set, using a lot more lower grade materia and less materia in general.
• Room to add GP materia if you want the 1000GP collectable rotation or 7.4's Node Bonuses.
• Hits all current big fish requirements.
• Final i780 relic can be used without any meld changes.

Downsides:

• Hits less node bonuses/breakpoints in 7.4 meaning less yield than our High Tier set.
• Low GP to make the set cheaper which further impacts yield.

Optional Meld Additions:

• Melding 54 GP (6 IX's) allows you to hit the 990 GP integrity node bonus with Stuffed Peppers.
• Melding 20 GP allows you to do the 1000GP collectable rotation with Nasi Goreng.
• Adding cheap low grade materia can allow the set to spiritbond more effectively.

A budget set is would be simply melding gear until you reach enough Perception to be able to gather everything in the game. Currently, this is 5600 and does require food. Our Budget set completely melds Perception to then also hit the 40% boon node bonus on current legendary nodes.

Because this is a budget set, it uses scrip gear having less meld slots but still being more than viable enough to do everything in the game and hit the next expansions cap.

You can use the relic in this set if you want and use it instead of a Scrip tool.