More SB (Spirit Binding) Spot Options within Eorzea

[Tam_Hawkins]

Wouldn't it be possible to simply gehter or craft until they are sb'ed? Iremember that while fishing it goes really fast.

[Welsper59]

Wouldn't it be possible to simply gehter or craft until they are sb'ed? Iremember that while fishing it goes really fast.

It's actually a rather slow task, and often an expensive one. Individual shards may not cost a whole lot (50-100gil per), but when synths take 3-6 per, it adds up a lot. So your end profit isn't exactly the greatest for the time you spend on it. You also have to include repair costs, which surprisingly adds up faster crafting than combat. Gathering is just dead slow from my experience. If your primary goal is materia gains, you're better off with combat.

[Estellios]

The biggest advantage to SBing while crafting is that you don't have to be there. If you craft stuff for leve turn-ins, depending on what leves you do, you can more than make up for the shard cost and sometimes even get your materials back on top of that.

Obvious negative is that leves are finite.