Spiritbond for R50 DoH

[Okiura]

My theory is that each piece of gears gain Spiritbond XP based on its own level, not the XP you gain yourself, because I myself spiritbonded my Velveteen Tight while my Dodore or Vintage stuff are like 20% only. Ring usually spiritbond the fastest as well.

i don't know about this although i'm not gonna say it not true, the biggest thing i found when Spiritbonding gear (and this is also mentioned in the Materia user manual next ot the Gob) is the level and class of the gear. i can get spiritbond on a peice of gear that is way over lvl and not for my class but it is painfully slow, where as a peice of gear ment for my class level (+/-4) will go up much much faster.

[MariyaShidou]

i don't know about this although i'm not gonna say it not true, the biggest thing i found when Spiritbonding gear (and this is also mentioned in the Materia user manual next ot the Gob) is the level and class of the gear. i can get spiritbond on a peice of gear that is way over lvl and not for my class but it is painfully slow, where as a peice of gear ment for my class level (+/-4) will go up much much faster.

I don't know, I'm lvl 50, the Dodore is obviously much closer to my lvl than the Dated Velveteen Tights, and Dodore is all by intention good as new (you can meld it too), so that would abolish the theory that Dated spiritbond slower.

While I'm at it, Dated Velveteen Half Apron (Black) is close to max now. Dodore, Vintage Thighboots are still ages away.

[Dallie]

The whole system is weird...

My brother maxed out his entire velveteen set on blacksmith doing a synth that gives him 0 sp lol only takes 200 synths, bit tedious but it works, its cheap and its nuts XD

Ok I noticed this doing fish>shards on alchemy too. I'm wondering if there's something that they didn't tell us about with their generic statement regarding spiritbonding. I was just randomly watching TV, spamming enter, when I see a message about 'Your XXXX is complete'. Lolwut.

They said 'actions when fighting, crafting or gathering...not XP exclusively. So my guess in light of this, is that if the scenario generates you no XP, you accumulate bonding based on number of actions instead.

[Estellios]

I think you actually might be able to get crafting materia simply from gear that has a majority of crafting stats on it, but I might be wrong. I have a crafting materia in storage but I didn't take a note of what I got it from. If you can get it from gear with crafting stats you can just battle in gear with those stats that are also DoW/DoM equippable.

That said I'm pretty sure you have a higher chance to get more "relevant" materia from converting tools/weapons. Both Dated Jade crooks I've converted have become Magic attack potency and Magic Crit potency.