Question to the Devs RE: Spiritbonding

[Zeful]

I'd like to add that I would hope the devs consider raising the spiritbond rate of DoH/DoL gear in proportion to the level of each recipe/gathering target. Spiritbonding through doing one's job needs to be rewarded just as much as, if not more than, DoW and DoM classes/jobs.

They do actually, I tested it myself a couple of days ago, the issue is that the difference is extreme between the DoW/M classes and the DoH/L classes. It can take a single dungeon run (so 10-20 minutes depending on which dungeon and how it's run) to spiritbind the right gear. It can take more than 100 completed recipies or successful strikes to spiritbind crafting gear of the same ilevel difference. The time difference is immense.

[Waeksyn]

Why should only Dow / DoM classes be able to earn Tomes while SB'ing at the same time? I SB daily (crafting gear on right side) in the main mission dungeons and almost always have the top DPS hate. Really people, those dungeons are so low that SB'ing has absolutely zero real impact.

[Zfz]

I would support this restriction for the simple reason that it doesn't feel right that battle actions bond you closer to crafting gear. That's just weird. I'm talking about if we ignore all practicalities.

PS: To really stop spiritbonding crafting gear in instanced dungeons, we should really just make battle actions reduce spiritbonding on crafting gear. 8-P

[Zohar_Lahar]

Hm, could still be scaled according to level like the new dungeon levels are. So to SB DoL/DoH AF gear, you'd best be hitting the level 50 nodes and crafting level 46+ stuff. And the return is a decent % of SB (whatever that would be, comparable to dungeoning per mob), much more if HQ I guess to counteract botting... Not sure...

For the Miner/Botanist gear, the leves at Saint Coinach's Find lets them spiritbond at a decent pace. But for crafting and fishing, everything's slow.