Question to the Devs RE: Spiritbonding

[Sadana]

Is there a way to restrict the spiritbonding of DoH and DoL gear to crafting and gathering, respectively?

The reason I ask this question stems from a particularly dodgy run through Castrum Meridianum, in which a WHM was found to have little more than crafting gear and proved utterly incapable of doing much of anything. While everyone else was able to eventually complete the stage, I really feel that that WHM was showing total disrespect for the job and us by gearing in such a way.

Sadly, the speed of SB while fighting is WAY faster than gathering & crafting. Wish the devs would address THAT.

But, CM? The WHM should've been able to hold up even in crafting gear. :/

Personally, I don't mind some right side stuff or a few items here and there just for SB in dungeons, but an entire gear set is a bit much, I'll agree. ^^:

[Alysanne]

The best way to address it would be to not have crafting/gathering gear count towards the required item level of the dungeon.

Its annoying to do dungeons and have people wearing crafting gear, gathering gear, or gear not meant for their class (bard wearing Int gear, ect.).

There's other annoying things people do in regards to spiritbonding and dungeons, but I won't go down that road.

[Ghishlain]

The best way to address it would be to not have crafting/gathering gear count towards the required item level of the dungeon.

Unfortunately, that won't change much because they would queue with their main gear on, then switch to DoL/H gear once they're inside the instance, thus bypassing the entry restriction.

If they changed it so you can't change ANY gear inside the instance, you'll hear a lot of complaints about that too, like tanks who like to do mass speed pulls in more defensive sets then help crush bosses in more STR-based sets.

The solution to restrict SBing to specific tiers generally does the job, I feel. Though to present an alteration on your idea here, I wonder if there's a way to restrict gear from accumulating Soulbind % in instances if the piece of gear doesn't share a primary stat of your class/job. That might be an interesting work around to get DoH/L gear outta instances for good.

[Sadana]

That might be an interesting work around to get DoH/L gear outta instances for good.

But this doesn't solve the problem that DoH/DoL materia takes too long to SB otherwise. And these classes NEED the materia, unlike battle classes (besides the relic stage that needs em). Speed THAT up and you'll see less of it in dungeons.

[Ghishlain]

But this doesn't solve the problem that DoH/DoL materia takes too long to SB otherwise. And these classes NEED the materia, unlike battle classes (besides the relic stage that needs em). Speed THAT up and you'll see less of it in dungeons.

Yeah, the solution was more of an attempt to get DoH/Ls out of instances in general. With my idea, you'll still be able to SB outside of the instance on a battle job. I tend to be able to SB a full i45+ right side within 20 minutes, I think, on WHM and I'm not even in Urth's Gift doing so.

If they made it more beneficial to SB as the actually DoH/L job, it'll definitely make SBing inside instances non-existent.

[Sadana]

If they made it more beneficial to SB as the actually DoH/L job, it'll definitely make SBing inside instances non-existent.

Heh, speed it way up on DoH/DoL classes and zero it out in battle. Would we see armies of crafting bots then?
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I don't wanna think about it. ><

[Ghishlain]

Heh, speed it way up on DoH/DoL classes and zero it out in battle. Would we see armies of crafting bots then?
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I don't wanna think about it. ><

Make it so when you Quick Synth, you'll always get 1% regardless of ilvl of the DoH? @.@

Dunno what you'd do for DoL though, lol. Maybe just double the amount of SB they get per tick >.>; (I dunno how DoL SB is calculated)

[Felis]

The solution to restrict SBing to specific tiers generally does the job, I feel. Though to present an alteration on your idea here, I wonder if there's a way to restrict gear from accumulating Soulbind % in instances if the piece of gear doesn't share a primary stat of your class/job. That might be an interesting work around to get DoH/L gear outta instances for good.

Equip gear with craftmanship as a Monk -> meld it with STR materia I -> fixed

[Ghishlain]

Equip gear with craftmanship as a Monk -> meld it with STR materia I -> fixed

I shall rephrase a little to compensate for this~

Though to present an alteration on your idea here, I wonder if there's a way to restrict gear from accumulating Soulbind % in instances if the piece of gear's base stats doesn't share a primary stat of your class/job, therefore Materia stats aren't applicable.

[ Editted for a bit more clarity on the bolded section ]

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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...

I could go for that.