Quote Originally Posted by TomTom1968 View Post
Yes to high level quests you can't do in full Spirit bonding clothes like now with the ones in Mor Dhona. 1-4 star conditions with interesting rewards, crafting mats and 100+ shards. Something. And maybe with HQ items for Gatherers and outside of Coerthas and Mor Dhona so both harvesting HQ and collecting items count towards the ingame achievements.
That all depends on your definition of "spiritbonding gear". I would have each set of leves doable in gear at the item level they're intended for... all levels which have craftable armor you can spiritbond. Though, the gathering and crafting leves past one star would of course not be possible without melded gear, hence why they would have extra item rewards: You wouldn't be earning materia from them.