How do people spiritbond these days?

[FoxyAreku]

I remember Urth's Fount farming parties in 2.0, but no one seems to do that stuff anymore.

Do people just wear leveling gear while crafting now instead or something?

[Granyala]

Easiest way: buy lv 55 stuff and go mining.
No clue whether it's still possible to SB via killing stuff, when I tried that the lv53 gear didn't get a single point. ._.

[KinnisonArc]

For Crafting/Gathering Materia, use as much SB boost + meld all the safe slot into the lv55 set bought from moghome and start mining/logging (fieldcraft leve works best) and also crafting cheap lv50+ recipes. Technically still possible to SB craft/gathering gears by killing stuffs but it's super slow it's not worth the time doing it this way.

[PirateCat]

If you're doing gathering favors, that's a great way to get a bit of spiritbond along the way. Though there are some zones where the items you could gather are practically worthless at NQ (*cough coneflowers cough*) so you have to decide between gathering those for SB or gathering crystals.

I also use my SB gear set whenever I'm making intermediate mats, since you'll need those in bulk anyway and HQ isn't always important for them. The only irritating thing is that quick synth fails a lot more often for 51+ stuff than I ever remember on pre-50 items (seriously? Level 60 with red scrip tools and level 55 gear and I still lose a quarter to a third of the hardsilver nuggets I'm trying to make?) so you'll want to make the items manually. Unless you don't care about maximizing your yield, since quick synth failures still build SB.

Also, what Kinnison said about SB boost. My SB set has two Meteor Survivor Rings (you can buy a second one from calamity salvagers) and the Patriot choker and wristbands. The accessories have a dodgy rate for converting to good tiers anyway. I don't think there's an earring that adds to SB (someone correct me if there is, please!) so I have dragon fang earrings in there.

[ChameleonMS]

disregard... I got this confused.

[AishaNymph]

I read this from a JP blog
Buy few set of low lv crafting eq from NPC shop.
Pop SB potion and go to ARR noob area kill a bunch of mobs
Can fully sb a set (yield T1/T2) in around 15mins if I remember it correctly.

(you gonna need tons of craftsmanship T1/2 in ilv170 hat/hands/legs/feet meld)

[ruskie]

Diadem has high SB rate - SBed a lvl60 set really fast there just by gathering for my relic mats.

[FoxyAreku]

Thanks people, I guess gathering is the best way to go.

[Alisi]

The only irritating thing is that quick synth fails a lot more often for 51+ stuff than I ever remember on pre-50 items (seriously? Level 60 with red scrip tools and level 55 gear and I still lose a quarter to a third of the hardsilver nuggets I'm trying to make?) so you'll want to make the items manually.

I'm sure that has to do with using SB gear. I never fail quick synth level 51+ times when I'm max level in level 60 gear. Well, I think I've only failed once. I did experience the huge failure rate when I was leveling and my gear sucked so I'm figuring that's what's happening to you.

[PirateCat]

You might be right. Small sample size, but I do seem to have a better success rate with quick synth using my 60 gear. I just haven't done much of this because I'm so hungry for materia that I pretty much always use SB gear for bulk mats. (Even if it does mean I have to keep hitting start, CS2, CS2 over and over.) I'm just surprised that you can be 5 levels over the recipe, with i180 MH and i170 OH and left side gear that matches the recipe level, and still have that big a failure rate.