Please add incentive for spiritbinding non- convertible gear

The spiritbind tool is nice for convertible items, but I personally feel that it is lacking usefulness elsewhere.

My suggestion: Add a passive incentive for spiritbinding gear.

I agree that a stat boost could be imbalancing, so rather than that...

How about a durability boost for 100% spiritbound equipment?

Or you can turn them in to your GC for points when you are done with them.
These equips are usually rare and can be submitted.

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Originally Posted by tymora

Or you can turn them in to your GC for points when you are done with them.
These equips are usually rare and can be submitted.

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True, but they don't require spirit bond to be submitted.

I like the idea of durability enhancements, or slight buffs. Nothing extreme, but something to pay off the effort.

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Originally Posted by tymora

Or you can turn them in to your GC for points when you are done with them.
These equips are usually rare and can be submitted.

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That only applies to pinks and some greens (heroes excluded), and these almost always are convertible, which means it is irrelevant to the OP request.

What about non-convertible gear (like blues and purples)? They are a lot of trouble to SB seeing that they are often high ilvl, and if an idea like this isn't utilized, the SB % provides no mechanic whatsoever.

A durability boost for blue SB items? My hammers and I are completely on board with this.

Unfortunately, I think we should skip the durability boost. We have to remember that repairing is a gil-sink. There are other things for gil sinks too but I can assume repairing is probably one of the biggest gil-sinks atm, especially since it costs quite a bit to repair and everyone has to repair at some time or another.

I do agree with some minor buffs. Especially since SE likes to do percentage buffs with a cap we could easily put in minor buffs without getting things too out of hand I would say. Then again, a 1 stat difference in materia has a difference of a 5 digit value to a 6 digit value.