How do I spiritbond in Urth's Fount?

Please advise. I want to spirit bind all the patrician's gear to get Crafting Materia 3 and 4's. Do I just wear it and go there and fight for a while...as a WVR? Is this why people form SB parties because they would die if they tried to SB by themselves as DoH? TIA

Patricians can be worn by any job so go as a DoW and just equip the gear. Kill those water ele's and get your materia!

A few suggestions:

HQ your sets. It spirit bonds faster.
Meld it with some crappy elemental materia. It spirit bonds faster.
Form a SB party. It spirit bonds faster. ;)
Use your chocobo on heal stance. It levels up faster. (Just kidding, it levels up the same, but you won't die so in that way its faster :P)

Oh thanks Chevy and Sainya! Does more "crappy elementary materia" bonded = faster than if I just have one bonded to each piece of gear?

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Originally Posted by ragnargalt

Oh thanks Chevy and Sainya! Does more "crappy elementary materia" bonded = faster than if I just have one bonded to each piece of gear?

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I think the bond rate goes up for every attached materia.

Thanks Black!

The abandoned mine area in Northern Thanalan were the Dark Devices Fate spawns is a great place to bond as well. Urth's Gift just seems the most popular/crowded.

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Originally Posted by Sainya

Form a SB party. It spirit bonds faster. ;)

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Just a minor correction, being a party reduces SB gained from each kill. But, a party will kill more monsters faster, thus, producing a net gain in most situations.
HQ: +20% SB gained
Each melded materia: +20% SB gained

SB rate varies based on item level (iLVL) versus monster level. You must kill a monster with 15 iLVL of the item. The optimal SB rate will happen when the monster iLVL is 8 or 10 levels (seen both numbers) higher than the iLVL of item being bonded. Optimal bond rate is somewhere near

OP wanted to SB Patrician's Gear which is iLVL 50
Urth's Fount will work just fine but a must faster bonding would happen from running Brayflox's Longstop (Hard), Halatali (Hard) and The Lost City of Amdapor.

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

The abandoned mine area in Northern Thanalan were the Dark Devices Fate spawns is a great place to bond as well. Urth's Gift just seems the most popular/crowded.

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If you've got a good party, the Garlean Castrums are good too. Basically anywhere you can expect large amounts of level 45+ enemies.

Just tossing this out, but if you have your heart set on Urth's Fount, there is no difference in conversion rate between Patricians, and the i46 gear (I forget the name of the set at the moment). They both convert into rank IV materia 10% of the time. So you could save yourself some gil and some time (it'd take less time to SB) and use 46 set instead.

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

OP wanted to SB Patrician's Gear which is iLVL 50
Urth's Fount will work just fine but a must faster bonding would happen from running Brayflox's Longstop (Hard), Halatali (Hard) and The Lost City of Amdapor.

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First, ever since they changed spiritbinding a while back, pretty sure those dungeons are too high to spiritbind level 50 gear.

Second, are you seriously suggesting that someone wear crafting left-side gear to a dungeon?

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Originally Posted by Urthdigger

First, ever since they changed spiritbinding a while back, pretty sure those dungeons are too high to spiritbind level 50 gear.

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Dungeon Levels
Those Dungeons are i55 unless my source is wrong and out of date.

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Originally Posted by Urthdigger

Second, are you seriously suggesting that someone wear crafting left-side gear to a dungeon?

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Agreed a full set would be folly. OP was not specific about how many pieces were being used. I made an assumption of say 3, leaving a player like me to wear 3 more i90+ items on the left and decent right side. You would be "weaker" but not worthless.

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Originally Posted by ChameleonMS

Dungeon Levels
Those Dungeons are i55 unless my source is wrong and out of date.


Agreed a full set would be folly. OP was not specific about how many pieces were being used. I made an assumption of say 3, leaving a player like me to wear 3 more i90+ items on the left and decent right side. You would be "weaker" but not worthless.

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As a tank I would drop the dungeon queue if I saw someone wearing crafting gear. If you want to spirit bind gear in a dungeon do a pf or get LS/FC mates to help you out. Df it and people will rage.

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Originally Posted by Wintersandman

As a tank I would drop the dungeon queue if I saw someone wearing crafting gear. If you want to spirit bind gear in a dungeon do a pf or get LS/FC mates to help you out. Df it and people will rage.

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Agreed, I would vote kick. When I was SB'ing, that's what I did - I got a team of people who knew that they were going in with someone wearing crafting gear. They knew I would not be 100%. It's not for me to decide if I'm 'good enough' for the random folks who expect an expedient clear so they can go on about their day.

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Originally Posted by EricCartmenez

Agreed, I would vote kick.

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And, that is what is wrong with this "community" in general.

My point wasn't to suggest using DF for this, which I never did suggest, but to provide information on optimal SB conditions for the request gear.