What's the point of spiritbond gear if the gear isn't convertible?

[Themis]

It's done because it's easier to have a single system that applies to all gear and a flag that says to hide the Convert option or not than it is to design and maintain a separate system for certain gear only, especially in something like an MMO which is always going to be changing a lot in the code underneath. It's a good way to save development time and costs (something any business will look to achieve).

This is something i always thought would improve gear. Not only would adding some kind of SB bonus, it might keep the materia market less flooded as people might not convert as readily if they knew that newly SBed item is giving them an added stat bonus of some kind.

The problem with that is that a) spriitbonding isn't hard, and b) this would great another layer of requirements on players. Don't have a full set of Spiritbonded i130 because of all the bonuses? No static for you. It also means that content has to be designed with this bonus system in mind. It's like how having gear with specific ability bonuses can add layers of requirements for players when doing certain content. Don't have the upgraded Shield Bash item? This content isn't for you, then. It's typically a more complex problem than described, but the gist is there.

[aisustrong]

hell, why not just make the bonus purely cosmetic?
like it starts to glow or something or has little particles or something relevant to the item?
or even the option to dye it

[Razzle]

hell, why not just make the bonus purely cosmetic?
like it starts to glow or something or has little particles or something relevant to the item?
or even the option to dye it

Sure, as long as we can choose to turn it off ( > . > ;

I had enough blindness through the relic stages XDD

[Cuervo78]

sweet
materia here I come

desynth and convert to materia are two different things.

[Myrhn]

Because in a future they just take out the "not" and you get free materia or desynthesis items and dont have to start spiritbonding at that point.

[Noxifer]

or even the option to dye it

This I would love. Unfortuntately, I don't see much chance of that, since they have previously released higher-tiered gear with the same appearance* but dyeable (i90 crafted, maybe pvp?), and because it would invalidate one aspect of the unweathered/augmented soldiery/poetics gear (not the most important, but one of them).


*) Except more restricted and with some details changed. Dammit, I don't want my battlemage robe sash to be turquoise D: I want it red! And I want to use the dyed infantry boots on my tank!

[Kotemon]

You can desynth all darklight and Syrcus Tower gear.

Was it always like that or do you need to have desynth above a specific level?

[Raxiaz]

Maybe this is how they could implement those often (or at least sometimes) asked for "bonus to skill" stats to provide variety? Once you get to 100% spiritbond, the gear acquires its skill/spell/trait bonus.

Doesn't need to be a huge one, just a small tweak that can make things more interesting. Tank gear with "Flash generates X% more aggro" or something, or healer gear with "+X% MP regeneration" or "Shortens raise/resurrect cast time by X%" (in addition to spell speed effect).

I would love to see something like this. I was going to make a topic about this sort of thing somewhere but decided against doing so. I'm tired of this same basic stat increase BiS (one letter more than BS) on every single piece of gear in the game. It's too bland, generic, and boring IMO. I get it. Bigger stats, better performance. But can we start getting some enhancements to our abilities/traits etc? I just wish gear was more than just primary stats+ and secondary stats+.

[HReincarnate]

Doesn't spirit bonded gear take longer to break? Could've sworn SB meant less durability loss :P

[atomicdeath]

I would like to see the dungeon gear have like a pool of super materia they could turn into. All with skill specific bonus', then those can be placed on crafter made items only.