Crafting and spiritbond

[Manila]

Grade of materia does not matter, btw. In my testing, III and I had the exact same effect. More materia is also definitely better. I tested 2 lvl 47 electrum rings (both hq, 1 with 1 materia, 1 with 3) over 80 lvl 42 synths. The 1 materia ring got to 35% while the 3 materia ring got to 46%. At this rate, the single melded ring would have been at less than 80% when the triple melded ring completed, which is fairly significant. (178 crafts vs 228 crafts).

Also, all crafts are not equal in terms of rate of spiritbinding. There is reduced efficiency the lower the craft level is compared to the item level. In the above example, less synths would have been necessary for completion had the tests been on lvl 47+ crafts. Unfortunately i haven't done enough testing to understand specifically how level affects the rate, just that it does.That said, there is no difference between at-level and above-level synths, they have equal efficiency.