Spiritbonding Heavensward crafting accessories...

[Geryth]

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Have you read any of this post? I'm not after gathering materia, I'm after crafting materia. I have to GATHER in order to CRAFT to spiritbond for CRAFTING materia. And I have to GATHER ~1800 items (if I'm choosing the absolute easiest way to do it) in order to CRAFT something ~300 times with heavensward items.

If I AM only going after gathering materia, and I only have to gather ~700-900 items as you claim. . . well then! That's about TWICE as easy as it is to gather what I need to craft SB! And I'd hardly whine about that.


Here's why SB'ing ARR items for crafting materia through battle is easier:
1) It actually takes less effort to make the gear than it takes to make Heavensward gear
2) Once the items are made, I'm already ready to start fighting stuff to gain SB on ARR items. This will takes less than hour to complete. If I'm crafting heavensward items to gain SB, I have to gather at this point. And it's going to take me 2-3 hours to gather that much stuff at best. And then after they're gathered, I finally have to craft 300 things which takes time as well. I'm looking at ~4x the amount of effort in time to spiritbond crafting items in heavensward compared to spiritbonding ARR crafting items through battle.

Because hell, thats some misinformation.

I'm going through the process RIGHT NOW and I'm sharing my findings. Please show me where my misinformation is. Trust me, the WHOLE POINT of this thread is for me to learn how to do it better so I'd love for you to tell me! Tell me how long it takes YOU to gather enough mats to craft 300 heavensward items (including crystals! - and yes, I am doing that through Aetherial Reduction which is the best way to get them!). And then tell me how long it takes YOU to spiritbond ARR crafting items through battle (I can do it in under an hour!). Even if the conversion rate of IV's is way less for those 45-50 items than it is for the 52-55 items, I'd be hard pressed to believe that I wouldn't get more IV's doing the former because it would seem I can SB those items about 4 times faster - and I'm actually farming these to use, not to sell, so I'm certainly not wasting any effort getting lots of III's in the process as I plan to pentameld a set of gear at 60.

meld them first if you care about your time somewhat)

I knew that gear that's been melded SB's fater, but I thought that if you convert gear that's been melded then it has a high chance to turn into elemental resist materia. Is that not true anymore?