How do ppl do it?

[glim]

spiritbinding level 45+ HQ white jewelries, helm, belt and gloves (melded with any cheap materia to increase spiritbonding rate by 20%) makes it worth your while, 12 CM runs netted me about 1.2m gold (non legacy server) or 900k-1m gold without selling the philosophy items. make sure to get mats of the spiritbind equips and ask someone to make it for you, if you buy the equips directly from marketboard, your net gain will be a lot lower, I gathered the materials and ask for a crafter to craft them all to HQ, 1k tip per craft, the tips cost me 57k, and the materia melding (250 tip each) cost me 14720, the raw materials cost me around 30k. so the investment is around 100k, and after 12 CM runs, you get 1200 philosophy points, with lots and lots of expensive materias to sell.