Bye bye Materia in dungeons and hello to farm crystals.

[Adrian74]

Sigh...

Just when this noob found a good money of doing spiritbond while getting fun... I liked to craft tourmaline accesories for my healers and go duty expert, getting some equipment for allied seals and fun while spiritbonding, and with guild powers and spiritbond potion fully having it 100% after two runs.

Also going with amber accesories with my tank....

So now I wonder... WHY these changes? Even with spiritbond gear my ilvl was still the required for duty roulette expert and the battles didn't have any risk, were fast and smooth (Gear doesn't matter so much at all, especially accesories)

If I want to spiritbond my gear I'll have to go booooring and pointless wanderer's palace or castrum meridianum.... Can't even go to Labyrinth of the ancients, well, can, but, as the patch notes said, the spiritbond will be super long.

So back to the boring traditional method of grinding it and just farm crystals, snurble tufts and any other things like that? Or going to the ships of sahagin quests and kill non-stop until spiritbonding, then complete quest....


Sigh... (I'm feeling like a whiny cat now) but... Seriously, why that free attack against spiritbonding, Square Enix? I just felt my goldsmith and the whole materia system became a little more useless now, less interactive with people, or interactive but more annoying and with less benefit.

Anyone here can give this noob any tip for spiritbonding with more profit or fun now? My only ideas are going to Wanderer's Palace as Square Enix suggests in the patch notes and at least take weapon parts so I don't need to buy those anymore.... Or just ignore duty finder and go kill elemental sprites of the crystal I'm lacking more.

PS: I hope this wasn't really made because spiritbonding accesories made such a super huge difference than hero or soldiery ones.... In my case I almost didn't notice the difference of it while healing or tanking in expert roulette...)

[Raxion]

I worry less about your wallet, and more about those poor souls that haven't finished Novus yet. What of their wallet!?

[Adrian74]

I worry less about your wallet, and more about those poor souls that haven't finished Novus yet. What of their wallet!?

B...But....But! Guild needs money nya!...And, well, I didn't exactly sell most of the materia for Novus dude, it was attached into relics...

What about those poor souls that doesn't want to bother themselves searching for someone to meld and they want to buy the relic already melded?!.... :P (Mostly, the big seller of healer and tank relics in the server, too many quicktongues and battledance III for that purpose.. And the funnier way to do so was going with my own tanks or healers to duty expert, the boring way is to do it in 'open boring' world, taking crystals that will be needed)

[Coatl]

If the reduction isn't that bad, I will still Spirit bond the hard way. If it is bad, I will probably still do it.

[Kyros]

For every one person that was wearing iLvl appropriate SB gear on dungeons, there was 20 others doing them in crafting or completely job-irrelevant gear. I for one welcome the new non-bs SB way.

[Marionette]

Keeping in mind that wearing level appropriate stuff is still going to bind fine, if not bind even faster than before.

The problem was when you was taking in massively under pared gear to dungeons, or switching out. A prime example of this is Syrcus tower, people wore the level appropriate gear (70) and then once inside changed their gear to be Ilvl 50 stuff to bind. so they're now 20 Ilvl below the minimum requirement. Using level appropriate stuff in dungeons is actually going to turn out better for binders, just less so for the people that go in expecting others to pull the weight because they want the shineys

[ruskie]

I only SB ilvl70 DoW gear in drexpert... 4-5 runs with 2 pieces and 3 SB+ items and I was still at ilvl82 for drexpert... hope this doesn't change... I need that materia for my novus... The gil investment alone is insane... 2 more savage aim IV's and them finishe what I can savage might... then I'll prob just go with whatever junk I have(like acc/skillspeed just do finish it off).

[Dano]

only 1/3 way through penta melding my jewelries its gonna be even more expensive down the road.

[BobbinT]

We need to credit to all players who bitched teaming with spiritbonding players. lol

[Yahavage]

The amount of butthurt from this change is staggering. I had no idea I was carrying so many people! I should pay more attention I guess.

This is a brilliant change.