Bye bye Materia in dungeons and hello to farm crystals.

[Wolf_Gang]

I personally think Spiritbonding should be removed altogether

Figure out another way to get materia.

[Stignodding]

This is how the game was meant to be played, no ones trying to see you run around CT like you belong in a domanian homeless shelter. With the ease of crafting 3 star, they balanced it by making i90 gear give better materia. Fixing things that are broken is what a good company should be doing IMO.

[Adrian74]

so doing expert dungeons a thousand times before 2.35 was better, or what is "your way"?


open world spiritbonding was the fastest and most efficient way and it still will be the fastest and most efficient way
90% of the materia sold via marketboard are generated by open world spiritbond partys

the materia prices wont change noticeable and everything will be still fine + less people with spiritbind gear during daylie runs who ruin the speed

What's a spiritbond party?! O_O..... (Not the case of Zodiark...)

[Stignodding]

what would you suggest?

[Adrian74]

My way is efficiency. If I need to run an expert roulette I'd use i47-49 accs and all i110 left side so I was still extremely overgeared. Same for If I run syrcus tower for my drop, or CT before that. I'd queue for T4 as a paladin to work towards the tank achievement mount with amber HQ accs and all i110 left side as well, and still be the most geared person in there. If I just wanted to do gear and needed nothing else I would do Urth's, but now that is only good for getting tier 3 materias.

I have to agree here as well. When you know you can spiritbond stuff, you know how useless the 110 accesories are in these dungeons... It's not like you'll really need them at all.

[Appleh4x]

This is how the game was meant to be played, no ones trying to see you run around CT like you belong in a domanian homeless shelter. With the ease of crafting 3 star, they balanced it by making i90 gear give better materia. Fixing things that are broken is what a good company should be doing IMO.

WTF are you talking about? Nothing was eased for crafting 3 stars. they should have just made it so you couldn't go below the min ilvl of a dungeon once you're inside, people could still SB a few pieces of gear with their stat on it. I90s will still give the same materia, and i70s will give worse materia

[Adrian74]

That's the primary reason people are upset about it. Instead of the reasonable array of options that were available beforehand, there's now like...three for most of us. I'm not even in it for the gil, but for my eventual Novus. I can only imagine how camped all the beastmen camps are going to be in the forthcoming weeks.

Yes, and this leads us to a new problem. (Seriously, medicine was worse than illness in this case.) If all the zones are being to be zerged by SBers... You won't be able to use certain classes. For example, I like to SB for obtaining quicktongues with my Scholar. That won't be possible in a zone that will start being taken by others because the dots don't do enough burst damage, so the monster kill won't count for me even if already put four dots on the monster... So I'll have to either use WHM for that purpose now or... A bard rage-shotting everything with turquoise accesories?... (And only accesories, If I'd want to also use the felt equipment for having 11 materia in a row instead of 5, in a bard or any other burst DPS would be laughable)

[Ruri]

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

I hate when SE listens to us.. ( I liked to SB in rubilite hq accessories while still pulling hate from the tank lol )

[Appleh4x]

I hate when SE listens to us.. ( I liked to SB in rubilite hq accessories while still pulling hate from the tank lol )

Well the issue is they only listen to the JP playerbase and couldn't give a flying fudge about us NA/EU players.

[Adrian74]

Speaking of Rubellite accesories, I saw a scholar, old friend from my last server, Lich, spiritbonding those with the scholar.... The same time I was spiritbonding amber with the warrior.... I bet that the two DPS guys wouldn't notice we were doing spiritbond if we wouldn't tell, fast and easy Tamtara Deepcroft HM.

And by the twelve OP you.... have the.... most annoying... writing sytle... e...ver

:3.... I laughed a lot there, the size of the words, hehe, needed it... Btw, sorry about it, not really a native English speaker, so tend to have many failures >.<... Hey, b...but.. This noob...Stills wants to improve