Spiritbonding Question

Is there a cap on how much spiritbond gain I can have on? I've heard it caps at +6 with the superior spiritbond potion but I would like a concrete answer on if this has been found out so I don't waste time and resources getting items that would go past the +6 threshold. Thank you!

It doesn't really cap. It just doesn't stack. Running the rank 2 FC buff gives the same amount. There's a rank 3 that gives a little more.

The cap is +5 for DoL. It's not capped for DoH.

Can also confirm DoH caps at +6. While DoH doesn't have a cap, I think it maxes out at 1% spiritbond for a craft.

Short form: spiritbonding is dark magic, and demonstrably no one entirely understands the math behind it except maybe SQEX. (And possibly not even SQEX; sometimes code takes on a life of its own...)

I say that as a joke, but... I'm also kind of not entirely joking, as this thread demonstrates. ;)

I forgot spirit bonding was even a thing. I get so much materia via item turn-ins that I could make a rather impressive ball pit.

What does spirit bonding even do? does it give you better stats when reaches 100%.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

What does spirit bonding even do? does it give you better stats when reaches 100%.

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Been a long time but you can do two things to an item.

1. Break it down to some of it's raw components to craft something else.

2. If 100% spiritbonded you can turn the item into materia instead.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

Been a long time but you can do two things to an item.

1. Break it down to some of it's raw components to craft something else.

2. If 100% spiritbonded you can turn the item into materia instead.

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They took away the part where you lose the item a couple years ago, so you can just repeat whatever process gives the best bond and keep your nice gear while you generate materia.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

What does spirit bonding even do? does it give you better stats when reaches 100%.

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You can extract materia out of it, which resets spiritbond back to 1%. There's no reason to ever NOT do it when you see items at 100% and even your inventory thing shows the items with 100% spiritbond as white, not green as reminder to extract it. You dont lose anything and there are no advantages to having higher spiritbond. And highest-tier materia from current high-level gear can sell on MB pretty well, as well as some tier-1 combat materia.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

They took away the part where you lose the item a couple years ago, so you can just repeat whatever process gives the best bond and keep your nice gear while you generate materia.

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Hm. I could make some useful crafting materia if that's the case. I'm just sitting on 100% everything.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Can also confirm DoH caps at +6. While DoH doesn't have a cap, I think it maxes out at 1% spiritbond for a craft.

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What does this mean? Because just one spiritbond potion is +6.

Does the FC buff + squadron manual + kings cake not do anything after all that?

The FC buff and the Squadron manual are mutually exclusive. All the squadron buffs clearly state that they overwrite company actions with similar effects.

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Originally Posted by Coatl

What does this mean? Because just one spiritbond potion is +6.

Does the FC buff + squadron manual + kings cake not do anything after all that?

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Correct. Any increase past +5 does nothing for DoL spiritbonding.