Spiritbonding gear

[Tonjit]

Please revert these changes:

"To reduce system stress, the timing with which changes to gear durability and spiritbond are processed has been adjusted."

I can no longer spiritbond gear outside of duties (overworld), and I can no longer choose to start spiritbonding other gear inside the dungeon when individual pieces (should) have finished spiritbonding say after a pack of mobs, nor can I put on something else for a boss/before a pack of mobs, say that I have a gear with 96% done, its a waste to use it for a pack of mobs unlike a gear with like 71% spiritbonding done.

[Caitlinzulu]

with how the game throws materia at us i struggle to see how spiritbonding is even an issue anymore.
This from someone who used to spend hours upon hours spiritbonding gear.

[aesteval]

with how the game throws materia at us i struggle to see how spiritbonding is even an issue anymore.
This from someone who used to spend hours upon hours spiritbonding gear.

It doesn't throw Grade 1, 2, and 3 battle materia at us which remains important to one of the steps for the Zodiac relic.

[KanuKano]

Is this the reason why I'm having so much trouble spiritbonding low level gear when I'm seeing people from 2 years ago saying they're spiritbonding stuff fairly quickly?

[Shahi]

I just did some low lvl fates for yokai yesterday and my gear was spiritbinding like crazy. And i don't think you should change gear in duties just to spiritbond when materia is cheap as hell. I just vendor them bc market prices are too low.

[LunaJoy]

Is this the reason why I'm having so much trouble spiritbonding low level gear when I'm seeing people from 2 years ago saying they're spiritbonding stuff fairly quickly?

Yes. Those guides are all obsolete now. You only make progress spirit bonding when a duty is complete. So at the end of the dungeon or when completing a FATE. Randomly killing adds in the open world won’t spirit bond your gear anymore, as of 5.3

[Liam_Harper]

Fates are still a source of Spiritbond for low level materia. Due to Extract Materia, the prices of these are still significantly cheaper than in the past anyway. I see no reason to revert something that would cause stress to the server over a few worthless materia.

What they could do however, is add a Materia section to the poetics vendor and allow you to buy all outdated combat materia (grade 1-6).