Tier I, II, III Crafting/Gathering Materia for Ixali Oaknots

[zeth07]

Since we can now get 3 Tier IV materia a day from the Ixali dailies and some from Diadem if you're lucky with spoils (besides the time it takes to do it), can we please get the option to buy the lower tier materia with some conversion of Oaknots much like we can get the higher ones with Sky Pirate Spoils.

It is very odd to have more Tier V materia than Tier I listed on the MB. Or how Tier IV materia costs less than Tier II materia. Since outside of some initial quests, the only way to get lower tier materia is through SBing but now there's other options to get the higher tier ones which is nice but it would be good to also have the option for lower tiers as well.

Oaknots don't really serve much purpose anymore, so might as well make use out of them while you do the dailies for the Tier IV materia.

[Tango185]

I've been playing catch-up on the Ixali quests and have a question: at what rank do the materia become available?

[Nekotee]

Materia from I to III are ridiculously easy to get (5 min of spiritbonding)
No point burning oaknot for them

However i would love to have high quantité exchange for the ixali vendor

Because when you burn 75+ oaknot for 2* comp it's soooo long to exchange

@Tango last rank of quest from the ixali near the ship

[Alistaire]

Until the point they become more expensive why not sell your tier 4's to fund your need for them?

[Nekotee]

Hq lv5/10 stuff spiritbond in less than a minute a give tons of materia I
Lv25/30 spiritbond in 2 min and give tons of materia II
Lv46 spiritbond in 4min in sahuagin area (big pack) and give tons of materia III and sometime IV

If you have some space in your inventory
You can walk away with hundreds of materia in 2 hours

[raela]

Last time I tried spirit bonding lower level gear, it'd take more like 30 mins a set. Where do you go / what do you kill?

[FoxyAreku]

Last time I tried spirit bonding lower level gear, it'd take more like 30 mins a set. Where do you go / what do you kill?

Killing stuff in east shroud (mainly, that huge pack of hunters south of the aetheryte) will net you the majority of the spiritbond bar on level 5 to 10 gear.

I just run over there, use assize with cleric on, then stone 3 like 5 things and I'm already done.

Don't know about grade 2 materia but grade 1s should never be bought so long as this works.

[Snugglebutt]

I have a vast amount of Oaknots in my storage because there is not anything I consider worth buying with them. The crafting materials for example which use Oaknots for are cheaper from GC's using seals.

[Sanlaw]

Considering rng is rng when melding grade 1,2 and 3 materia i peronally dont think it matters.. the difference in percentage between the first 3 grade materia is insignificant. Just SB grade 2 or 3 materia or buy whichever one is the cheapest.

[Snugglebutt]

I think would be far more important for SE to add tier 5 crafting/gathering materia to highest rep moogle tribe quests rather than worrying about tier 1 to 3 which are easy to get from spirit bonding.