Spiritbonding Heavensward crafting accessories...

[JillyBean]

I have had several people tell me that you cannot SB HW crafting/gathering gear outside of crafting and gathering. If you try to do it in combat it will sit at 1%.

[Geryth]

its probably faster to spiritbond ilvl 10-30 stuff, if you are looking for t1+2 materia.

I'm actually looking for IV's.

I have had several people tell me that you cannot SB HW crafting/gathering gear outside of crafting and gathering. If you try to do it in combat it will sit at 1%.

From the looks of it, this appears to be true. I figured since I went ahead and made a set, I may as well go through to see what it's like. Since I'm actually crafting to SB, I also made an entire set except for MH and OH, so I'm SB'ing 11 items at once. I spent a long time just farming crap to craft, which in this case was dark chestnut logs so I could quick synth spam dark chestnut lumber. I farmed 500 NQ logs (and also got 105 HQ in the process), and I quick synthed 100 dark chestnut lumber (5 logs to 1 lumber). I did this with a spiritbond potion active, and my gear progressed to 34% spiritbond.

So basically, in order to spiritbond crafting gear, you're going to have to craft 300 items (with a spiritbond potion active). This means you'll have to farm/gather/buy 1500 items because most of heavensward single or two mat crafts take 5 items (6 in some cases like mythrite nuggets), so 300*5=1500. And that's just the raw mats, don't forget your crystals! It's 3 or 4 crystals per craft (4 in the case of dark chestnut lumber), so 4*300 = 1200 crystals. So you need to gather or buy a total of 2700 items in order to spiritbond a set of heavensward crafting gear.

Yeah no thanks, the better option buy FAR is still to craft 45-50 ARR items and go spiritbond them through battle somewhere like Urth's Gift (where I see some gil farming bots doing just that RIGHT NOW on Mateus).

SE - wasn't the whole issue with leveling crafting at Heavenward release that people were still doing ixals + Saint Coinach leves to level at 50+, so that it was nerfed so people had to level in Heavenward by doing Heavensward content? Wasn't it a real problem that people were grinding FATEs in Northern Thanalan well into their 50's because heavenward FATEs just simply didn't offer enough EXP reward for the time, and again you wanted people doing Heavensward content so you buffed FATE exp? That's the EXACT SAME PROBLEM right now with crafting materia. It's WAY better to obtain them by crafting ARR items and SB'ing them in ARR areas.

It's way more effort to SB crafting materia in Heavensward gear - so it would make sense to me that you should make similar changes in regards to SB'ing Heavensward crafting items.

PS. Since I'm 1/3 of the way there and I have no other use for these items I'm going to go ahead and finish it out, and I'll let you know what kind of materias I got for my efforts.

[Ayerinn]

I have had several people tell me that you cannot SB HW crafting/gathering gear outside of crafting and gathering. If you try to do it in combat it will sit at 1%.

This is true, doesn't work killing mobs unless it is battlecraft gear - I craft/equip HQ crafting belt/neck/earring/bracer socketed with a materia and go pick something useful in a HW zone with the +3 rings and spirit bond potion.