Converting Aetheryte Ring

Apparently the Aetheryte Ring is one of those items that can turn into any type of materia, rather than a crafting materia... But I am wondering if it turns into anything besides elemental materia, or is that just my bad luck? I just converted four in a row and got all elemental materia. Wanted to ask on here, before I waste any more out there during spiritbonding!

I got pie IV from it, and savage something. I got no problem with it tho since my GSM super easy HQing those rings and gold ore itself are easy to get, have quite abundance actually since my miner retainer sometimes brought those.

And there's the spiritbonding bonus on those rings. Unless someone could say otherwise, like it's not totally worth it or something. lol

I tried 5 times, got 5 elemental IV materias, and turned them in for a lovely CP materia IV back in time :3 that made my day

They can only turn into stat materia (STR/VIT/DEX/etc.), or elemental materia; nothing else. They're generally worthless to bond.

not really worthless, considering the added spiritbond stat bonus. Combined with having Miner 50 & Miner Retainer, I really have abundance of those. Plus, the ring only take 1 rose gold nugget, and it's not hard to HQ even from NQ mats.

Already converted dozens of aetherite rings myself.

You're generally better off spiritbonding another ring that can actually give you something good instead of the paltry +1 spiritbond increase, but whatever floats your boat.

Edit: and if you're really after that spiritbond+, you'd probably be better off with a Meteor Survivor Ring.

I guess best case scenario you get Vitality or piety IV (I think piety is only worth something because of novus, but I may be wrong and it's not worth a ton or anything). That or save up 5 to hopefully trade for something useful, but that seems very wasteful unless you somehow have no other options for level 45+ rings.

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Originally Posted by Raldo

You're generally better off spiritbonding another ring that can actually give you something good instead of the paltry +1 spiritbond increase, but whatever floats your boat.

Edit: and if you're really after that spiritbond+, you'd probably be better off with a Meteor Survivor Ring.

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If you are spiritbonding everything but main weapon, you'll complete more pieces/hr using meteor rings over aetheryte, and 2/11 of them won't be automatically junk.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

If you are spiritbonding everything but main weapon, you'll complete more pieces/hr using meteor rings over aetheryte, and 2/11 of them won't be automatically junk.

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Sounds good! I have the meteor survivor rings and have been active in spiritbonding, but I usually go for wearing two convertible rings in order to recieve two more materia. i will definitely try the meteor survivor rings out more often now that you have said this!

at lv50 your better of skipping the meteor rings and just melding some t1 materia to them
i just use 2 rings i can convert and pop and sb pot.

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Originally Posted by krazyrs

at lv50 your better of skipping the meteor rings and just melding some t1 materia to them
i just use 2 rings i can convert and pop and sb pot.

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That's what I usually do, but I have been having bad luck with them lately, so wanted to get some insight. It's a tossup with conversion, just like with anything else it seems.

That's interesting.

Again as reminder, I have miner & goldsmith capped, and I have abundant of rose gold ore. Making aetherite ring only requires 1 ore, and I can even HQ them easily even from NQ ores, especially since I already have my artisan/forager tools (that's ilevel 70 main hands). I also benefitted for making achievement progress of HQ crafts. All those give me no reason to keep making and using them, aside maybe ethically issues.

For players who doesn't have miner/gsm capped, Meteor Survival Ring would be best choice. I simply don't want to waste SB effort. If you do have the means to make them, why not keep doing it? Unless ofc, someone can provide me a big flaw from it.

So again, to OP, if you don't actually have the means of producing/crafting the HQ rings yourself, Meteor Survival Ring would do. Or what @krazyrs said, you better off using lvl 45+ rings that's related to your job instead. I can attest you that I have no problem SBing those too, but at least if it's all HQ since NQ will only hurt your SB progress about twice from HQs. Melding 1 materia (useless one if possible) also speeds up SBing, but I find this in the long run not very profitable even if I use those useless elemental materias.