Quote Originally Posted by Urielparadox View Post
Ever gone spirit bonding? Spending 4 hours +120k in gear currently( 300k+ easily after update. because all the sp gear is going sky rocket as well), if you are lucky every 150k and 4 hours you will get 1-2 random lvl 4 mataria that could be one that doesn't ever work towards a weapon or have value(int/vit/elemental resistance) or one that sales and will still sale for like 30k(skill speed for instance). In fact you have an much smaller chance of getting the secondary stats as a mataria when compared to all the other stats. Creating materia is more RNG then when atma farming + it cost you gil. There is no way you can do a novious without spending large amounts gil, even if your an omnicrafter, and spiritbond everything yourself.
yes, i have a bunch of Materia IV from SB, and it didnt cost anything, cause i grathered/crafted the gear myself=win.
it will take time to get gil to by materia.
it takes time to SB.
doesn't matter which you prefer, but i prefer to not spend gil on greedy ppl.
it only takes a long time with lv50+ gear, and you can get IV from lv45 stuff, and possibly a bit lower.
And if you get *wrong* materia, you can trade it for what you need. or convert materias until you get what you want.