How do people spiritbond these days?

[PirateCat]

If you're doing gathering favors, that's a great way to get a bit of spiritbond along the way. Though there are some zones where the items you could gather are practically worthless at NQ (*cough coneflowers cough*) so you have to decide between gathering those for SB or gathering crystals.

I also use my SB gear set whenever I'm making intermediate mats, since you'll need those in bulk anyway and HQ isn't always important for them. The only irritating thing is that quick synth fails a lot more often for 51+ stuff than I ever remember on pre-50 items (seriously? Level 60 with red scrip tools and level 55 gear and I still lose a quarter to a third of the hardsilver nuggets I'm trying to make?) so you'll want to make the items manually. Unless you don't care about maximizing your yield, since quick synth failures still build SB.

Also, what Kinnison said about SB boost. My SB set has two Meteor Survivor Rings (you can buy a second one from calamity salvagers) and the Patriot choker and wristbands. The accessories have a dodgy rate for converting to good tiers anyway. I don't think there's an earring that adds to SB (someone correct me if there is, please!) so I have dragon fang earrings in there.