TIV Crafting Materia sources?

I'm REALLY struggling to hit 3* stats, even with food, i'm looking at having to over meld with control 4 materia, which on Odin is 400k - 500k a pop and for a low chance RNG, I'm not wasting that amount of Gil (I'm not made of money).

So what are we left with for ways to get hold of crafting materia that's not going to break the bank or take a month to get hold of?

Spiritbond Ramie Sets. If you can HQ your own and a potion it takes about 2 stacks quick synthesizing to SB. I've got about 20+ Control 4's from 10-12 sets.

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Originally Posted by AdamSandler

Spiritbond Ramie Sets. If you can HQ your own and a potion it takes about 2 stacks quick synthesizing to SB. I've got about 20+ Control 4's from 10-12 sets.

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Quick snything what?

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Originally Posted by Hanmerreborn

Quick snything what?

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Ramie thread to make more sets.

Airship sector 17 you can get 10+ Materias IV

Now that's a solid plan. Thanks for the tips! :)

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Originally Posted by Ekko

Airship sector 17 you can get 10+ Materias IV

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Which they inexplicably made harder to gather.

Another potential source, albeit overly-abundant with RNG, is doing the Amal'jaa, Sylph, Kobold, and Sahagin Daily Beast Tribe tasks. The top level tasks from those four beast tribes give t4 combat Materia, which you can then have Mutatrix smash together hoping for crafting Materia.

Looking at your gear (goldsmith), you have a full set of crafted/scrip gear so what are your stats? Feels like you should have reached it by now. Potentially try going the Beet Soup route?

EDIT: Forgot there was a stats tab on the loadstone XD

Just over meld some TIER 3 Comp materia and pop Seafood stew? Simples.

It feels like a waste to have gone to the trouble of getting mats and Fc mates to craft the hq stuff only to not try and meld it as high as possible. I'm not a hardcore player and it's taken me a while to get to this stage.
I want to try and make myself as futureproof as possible.

These suggestions are still ace though. A lot of food for thought. :)

The old way work well

Spiritbond lv45 to 50 crafting gear
You can do it almost everywhere (during the main quest roulette... Fighting any dark tribe during daily trib quest... Killing water spirit in urth gift...)
It spirit bond in less than 10 minute without potion
Cost nothing
Yield ton of T3 materia (i mean... Like if T3 control are not needed)
And you get pretty oftenly a T4 materia

Last try i did yesterday i got 2 T4 control with à lv46 set

What i did was as follows

1) Get a set of the ilvl100 Crafting gear from Moghome npc including main hand tool.

2) Attach 3 pieces of garbage materia to each piece.

3) Equip the +1 Spirit Bond neck and Wrist from Grand company and two Meteor Survivor rings.

4) FC Spiritbond buff + Better crowned pie and spirit bond potion.

This will bond the gear in 150 quick synths. I grabbed 3 stacks of Rainbow cotton balls off the MB and synth those up followed by turning those into thread.

It's fairly cheap to do and you can make some of the costs of mats back from the thread / cloth you have.