The link doesn't work for me, but I've used FFXIVguilds' leveling and melding guides on Chachan and they seem to work fine for me. So you should be fine there? I mean, I wasn't even fully melded and I managed to make my Vulcan Lucis! And, when in doubt, you can always look up on the MB and see if people have melded gear up for sale - usually they're melded in the "proper" way or close enough to draw ideas from (or just straight up buy if you have the cash monies).
As for the Artisan gear, are you talking about the ones you purchase with the crafting turnins or the craftable one with the materia slots? I ask because a HQ set of the latter is technically "better" overall (though you'll still want the Glasses since there's no equivalent craftable headpiece!), but the former is apparently good if you don't want to sink all that gil into materia and possible failed melds.
I... just sorta bought most of the HQ craftable gear already melded, and then did the rest with myself. So the only non-meldable piece I got was the glasses, which I got just making the token for the class I was trying to get my Lucis on (BSM, in this case). I vaguely remember someone mentioning at one point that the CUL token was the easiest to make, but I could have totally misheard or misremembered since that was ages ago. I didn't have any particular issue with the BSM token, though, since you don't even need to HQ it.
Um... hope that helps.
As for the Artisan gear, are you talking about the ones you purchase with the crafting turnins or the craftable one with the materia slots? I ask because a HQ set of the latter is technically "better" overall (though you'll still want the Glasses since there's no equivalent craftable headpiece!), but the former is apparently good if you don't want to sink all that gil into materia and possible failed melds.
I... just sorta bought most of the HQ craftable gear already melded, and then did the rest with myself. So the only non-meldable piece I got was the glasses, which I got just making the token for the class I was trying to get my Lucis on (BSM, in this case). I vaguely remember someone mentioning at one point that the CUL token was the easiest to make, but I could have totally misheard or misremembered since that was ages ago. I didn't have any particular issue with the BSM token, though, since you don't even need to HQ it.
Um... hope that helps.
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