Best SB Methods

[Lani]

With the new Novus Quest I am looking for a variety of efficient methods to SB while not boring myself to tears. So far I have tried fate grinding with animus equipped around Bluefog.

[Felis]

FATE
Beastmen dailies
Chocobo leveling
Battle Leve at max stars
Dungeons

You can also buy from the calamity npc another meteor ring to equip two of them (if you did the sidequests at bronze lake after titan mainstory to earn the first ring)

[Welsper59]

Depends on what tier of materia you're aiming for. If you're aiming for III or IV materia, your fastest approach is to grab a group and just destroy everything in the area that is 48+. There are several areas like that. Otherwise, you could always find some friends to grind lv50 dungeons with a lot of trash mobs in a small area that aren't too bad to kill quickly (even in just the i55 gear), this being places like Brayflox. Depending if it's lv45-49 gear, AV or DD would probably work much more efficiently. However, if you're looking to just solo, then you really only have the option of going to beastmen strongholds, south shroud elementals, Garlean strongholds, or places like North Thanalan. Beastmen daily quests are decent depending on how far you are with them and what level of gear you're binding.

Now if it's low tier (like t1 materia), your options are a lot greater as you can easily find certain areas to AoE groups of mobs quickly.

[Donjo]

If speed is not your object, FATE grinding in areas appropriate to your item level is probably the best way to go, as you'll have that small chance of getting an Alexandrite while you're working. Don't rely on it, but think of it as a nice surprise if it happens.

If you want speed, Crystal Tower is an excellent place to spiritbind(if you have a good group), and I hear that Turn 3 of Coil is also beautiful.

On other notes, make sure to have Spiritbind Potions handy, the Spiritbinding FC buff if you can, and Spiritbind Speed increasing gear anywhere you're willing to sacrifice a slot for.

[Ghasto]

If you can get yourself a party that isn't godawful, turn 4 is the best place in the game for spiritbonding.

[Divine_Intervention]

Other option is taking a party to urths gift, southeast of quarrymill, as stated above have any spirit bond boosting gear you can have/sacrifice, and grab a few spiritbond potions from GC.

With a decent party I've been able to spiritbond a full set of crafter lvl 50 partisans gear, and accessories wearing only white mage staff in about 40 mins to an hour.
(oh, grinding on water sprites there, close area, fast respawn times).

[Billzey]

It takes less than 30m to fully spiritbond an entire set of ilvl45+ gear solo (on BRD). Just find somewhere where there are plenty of lvl 45+ mobs and go to town. Using meteor rings is foolish as you've just reduced the # of gear slots available for SB by two.

[ispano]

It takes less than 30m to fully spiritbond an entire set of ilvl45+ gear solo (on BRD). Just find somewhere where there are plenty of lvl 45+ mobs and go to town. Using meteor rings is foolish as you've just reduced the # of gear slots available for SB by two.

Depends what you're trying to get honestly. There are some cases where it helps.

[StouterTaru]

It takes less than 30m to fully spiritbond an entire set of ilvl45+ gear solo (on BRD). Just find somewhere where there are plenty of lvl 45+ mobs and go to town. Using meteor rings is foolish as you've just reduced the # of gear slots available for SB by two.

If you put two meteor survivor rings on, that's about a 30% boost to 9 slots, while losing 2 slots, assuming you keep your main weapon. Spiritbond +1 gear is not worth it, you lose more than you gain, and Spiritbond +2 is a push in most cases.

Use HQ gear. Put cheap elemental materia in the 100% slots. Kill stuff that dies fast to you in crappy gear.

[BobbinT]

If you put two meteor survivor rings on, that's about a 30% boost to 9 slots, while losing 2 slots, assuming you keep your main weapon. Spiritbond +1 gear is not worth it, you lose more than you gain, and Spiritbond +2 is a push in most cases.

Use HQ gear. Put cheap elemental materia in the 100% slots. Kill stuff that dies fast to you in crappy gear.

what about aetherite rings instead of meteor survivor rings? would it give same results, especially since I can craft em easy and sb same time for more benefit.