Where can i soulbind ?

[Rinaku]

I don't know which is the fastest way now these days, anything i kill it doesn't increase the % the lvl 55 item are hard to soul bind. i am doing the nodes but every 3 node get me 1%

are there other ways?

[Moonseeker]

Unfortunately, there have been changes made to the spiritbonding system that prevent bonding via combat for Gathering/Crafting gear. Your best option now is to find something with a 3-4 level range above the level of gear you're trying to bond and use a spiritbond potion.

[neoxdeciple]

Unfortunately, there have been changes made to the spiritbonding system that prevent bonding via combat for Gathering/Crafting gear. Your best option now is to find something with a 3-4 level range above the level of gear you're trying to bond and use a spiritbond potion.

This is incorrect. You can still spirit bond at urths fount with ilevel 45-55 gear to get crafting/ gathering materia. But being 60 you can do whole sets solo and also pull 2 sets of mobs. The water sprites. And then the bats and flys. Happy bonding!

[Katchoo]

This is incorrect. You can still spirit bond at urths fount with ilevel 45-55 gear to get crafting/ gathering materia. But being 60 you can do whole sets solo and also pull 2 sets of mobs. The water sprites. And then the bats and flys. Happy bonding!

This is correct 100%. It's super easy now.

[Hennessy]

I think OP was referring to level 55 gear, not ilvl 55 gear in which case Moonseeker is right... they changed it so that it's now extremely tough to soulbind on mobs in the overworld

[Aeyis]

This is incorrect. You can still spirit bond at urths fount with ilevel 45-55 gear to get crafting/ gathering materia. But being 60 you can do whole sets solo and also pull 2 sets of mobs. The water sprites. And then the bats and flys. Happy bonding!

Ugh, more Urths found ads.

[KinnisonArc]

The most effective method (at least to me) is to meld materia to all guaranteed slots into each piece of the store bought NQ level 55 crafting gear and then use it to gather level 50+ node items while having as much Spiritbond Gain bonus gear/effects up. (Meteor Ring x2 + SB potion + FC SB effect)

Also you can SB while doing fieldcraft leves, imo it's actually more convenient compare to flying from one to another on normal gathering nodes as fieldcraft nodes are much closer to each other.

If you gather often, HW Fieldcraft leves sometimes reward Hi-Cordial so you can pick those leves up and clear them and depending on which leve you picked up plus your SB setup, you can get about 6-10% or even more for each leve cleared.

[neoxdeciple]

To be honest I really don't think it's worth sprit bonding anything level 50+.

Being as converting doesn't give grade 5 materia at all your better off sticking to 48 gear which is super quick to do. Also has chances of grade 4 materia. Took me about a day to spirit bond 88 peices. More than enough materia to min meld crafting gear at 60. (I'm grand master of hand so I would say this is definitely more effective.)

[Aeyis]

To be honest I really don't think it's worth sprit bonding anything level 50+.

Being as converting doesn't give grade 5 materia at all your better off sticking to 48 gear which is super quick to do. Also has chances of grade 4 materia. Took me about a day to spirit bond 88 peices. More than enough materia to min meld crafting gear at 60. (I'm grand master of hand so I would say this is definitely more effective.)

Urths found was an okay to spiritbond back in 2.0. Back then it was a consideration of whether you wanted to just bond, or whether you wanted to bond + make gil (and possibly buy materia with those).


In 3.0 using Urths fount with the purpose of obtaining tier IV materias is an incredibly poor way to SB.

[Adrasteia]

In 3.0 using Urths fount with the purpose of obtaining tier IV materias is an incredibly poor way to SB.

It's faster (and cheaper) than the other available options, to be honest. The massive HP increase of everything in HW, the far more spread-out nature of world mobs, and the lack of a Castrum Meridianum equivalent means that it's a long, dull grind to spiritbond even a single piece of gear. The cost is also a major concern, unless the drop rate for IVs on 51+ gear is somehow massively increased over the base 45+ gear. I can get a full set of the crafting stuff from Mor Dhona and slam out a fully spiritbound left-side in less than 30 minutes over at the Castrum by Wineport (Meteor Survivor Rings + Potion, but no cheap materia melds) and will always, at the very least, equal the replacement cost of the gear after selling the materia (with an average of about 1 IV for every full spiritbond run). The same can't be said for HW binding, especially if you're trying to spiritbond DoM/DoW stuff.