New SB limitations - facts

[tOnni3]

Has anyone tried ilvl 45-49 acc with AV or DD first room ?

[Adrian74]

Noob reporting for duty. My favorite spiritbonding gear are accesories I super easily craft with my dear goldsmith... Being the 48-49 turquoise-amber-zircon-rubellite-spinel accesories and all that...

In Urth's Gift, with chocobo + HQ + spiritbond potion + meld + free company rank 1 power it took me around 20-25 min to spiritbond these accesories.

I knew it wouldn't work in my dear EX roulette, so didn't try.... I tried in SPEEDFLOX and..... THEY DON'T spiritbond.

In Wanderer's Palace I had them all 37% before starting. And ended with 67% and 54%. For some reason, Necklace and Bracelet didn't spiritbond at the same time. (My bet is that bracelet and necklace are ilevel 48, while earrings and rings are 49.)

Interesting thing comes here. Ilevel 49 accesories seemed to spiritbond faster in Wanderer's Palace than ilevel 48 ones... MAybe does this mean that Wanderer's Palace ilevel of the monsters is something around 65?. Probably perfect place for the i55 stuff, but still needing to find a place with i59-60 monsters for these accesories.

I'm going to do another run in WP with amber accesories starting from 0% and post results soon.

[Sadana]

Seems like the window of SB opportunity is too damn narrow. :/ I'll be testing today as well.

[Richiealvian]

I did T4 with gryphon neck, got 29% triple meld sb pot fc buff

[Adrian74]

Arg, disappointed with this but... I think it requires 3 runs of Wanderer's Palace for fully meld it. (At least Bracelet and Necklace)

I couldn't finish the entire run, because had to leave before first boss, a question of honor... But...

<---- Wanderer's Palace, trash before 1st boss results ---->
(Spiritbond potion, HQ + 1 meld, FC buff tier 1)

Amber Necklace: 9%
Amber Earrings: 14%
Amber Bracalet: 9%
Amber Ring: 14%
Amber Ring: 14%

If someone finds a better dungeon to run with the 48-49 accesories, please tell. I'm not seeing good ways of quick-SB for materia III... Before this damn patch I could SB in 2 runs of Duty Expert, having all benefits of roulette expert, + 6000 gil per run because of adventurer in need...

[Bixby]

If someone finds a better dungeon to run with the 48-49 accesories, please tell.

It seems from a few posts right in this thread that Castrum is the way to go.

[ColeSlawter]

T4 is still a decent choice to SB i70 gear. Someone also asked about t3 for i70 and I thing that based on the other data we are seeing here that i70 would be a bit high. Might see if I have people for a trial run tonight. My assumption is going to be that i70 will be outside optimal but i55 might work which still makes t3 a less viable options than some of the other places mentioned (not to mention you would have to balance total ilvl with several i90+ to even get in.)

[Adrian74]

It seems from a few posts right in this thread that Castrum is the way to go.

Thank you, always helping since I first came to this forum... :3... Anyway, confirmed, Wanderer's Palace is not worth unless you have interest in spiritbonding + also take the parts yourself (Price of the parts is ridiculous in Zodiark, 100k the cheaper-non incluying bardiche's head [20k] )

[Urthdigger]

For ilvl 55, the armor tends to be much cheaper than the weapons due to speedrunners skipping the chests with parts in WP. Though, if more folks go there to SB they may grab the chests while killing all mobs and drive the price down.

Though, you should keep your weapon as your endgame weapon anyway, since it's the most important piece of equipment and can drastically increase kill speed.

[Triston]

For ilvl 55, the armor tends to be much cheaper than the weapons due to speedrunners skipping the chests with parts in WP. Though, if more folks go there to SB they may grab the chests while killing all mobs and drive the price down.

Though, you should keep your weapon as your endgame weapon anyway, since it's the most important piece of equipment and can drastically increase kill speed.

^ Spiritbonding your weapon is never a good idea. I remember I tried it with a few i49 bows pre-patch in Urth's Gift; kill speed was cut by at least a third to half. Nowhere near worth it for a single slot.