Gathering Melding and Best in Slot Gear Meldsets For FFXIV Dawntrail Patch 7.0

This is our main "Best in Slot" set at the moment which with a left side that will last until 7.1 and a right side that can last until 7.3 (barring any minor adjustments to be optimal in future patches).

The best food options for this meldset are Nasi Goreng for collectables, allowing you to perform the 1000GP collectable rotation while both Stuffed Peppers (5031/4991/970 with food) and Turali Pineapple Ponzecake (5182/4912/938 with food) are both competitive for legendary nodes. Peppers provides more sustained yield while Ponzecake instead brings higher peaks especially with Revisit both average out to be very similar.

Benefits Include:

• Able to hit the all Node Bonuses on current Legendary nodes depending on food.
• Futureproofed around minimum perceptions in future updates.
• Hits the 25% Cap for Meticulous on all Orange Scrip collectables.
• Enough GP to allow you to perform the 1000GP collectable rotation with Nasi and additional GP gained when hitting the node.
• Fishers can use this meld set for big fish in 7.1.

Downsides:

• More expensive than the Mid Tier set.
• Does not cap the 40% Intuition proc chance, instead favouring other collectable breakpoints.

This is the mid tier gathering set for the Endgame gear offering lower stats and therefore less yield but having much easier melding. This is planned around having X overmelds (aside from a GP meld), cheaper overmelds in general and less overmelds to save even more gil while still hitting breakpoints.

Primarily focused on using Turali Pineapple Ponzecake (4983/4919/855 with food) on legendary nodes. This set guts a lot of GP off, if you want the GP to be able to perform the 1000GP collectable rotation, you can meld a GP into all pieces aside from body, hands and head to then have enough GP with Nasi Goreng + GP gained while hitting the node.

Benefits Include:

• Caps Collectable Skills foodless.
• Significantly cheaper than the high tier set, using a lot more lower grade materia.
• Hits the 30% Boon node bonus with Ponzecake.
• Able to hit the +2 Yield boon Bonus on current Legendary nodes with Ponzecake.
• Room to add GP materia if you want the 1000GP collectable rotation.
• Fishers can use this meld set for big fish in 7.1.

Downsides:

• Unable to hit the +3 Yield node bonus.
• Does not cap any Collectable procs.
• Low GP to make the set cheaper which impacts yield.

At this current time there is no budget gathering set. This is because until 7.1 releases there is no way for us to know the minimum perception values of those nodes. Additionally, the scrip gear which is more commonly used as a budget set is currently class specific and has no off-hand or accessories which would need to be heavily melded.

A budget set currently would involve simply hitting 4480 Perception either using Scrip gear or i690 crafted gear and melds. You will need to add more perception in 7.1 though.