Spiritbond should be allowed to "overflow" past 100% as a quality-of-life improvement

[Eorzean_username]

Due to the various Spiritbonding changes that have been made since 5.20, I think that Spiritbond on items should be allowed to reach 200%, similar to personal item repairs being able to reach 200% Condition.

My reasoning for this is the following:

• As of 5.30, Spiritbond is not granted from defeating individual enemies, but instead only upon completing an instanced duty.
• Therefore, it is possible to have an item reach, for example, 97% Spiritbond, and now be completely unable to increase this further without completing an entire duty.
• Now, let's say that a given duty is granting, for example, 35% Spiritbond per completion. You are now forced to waste 32% of a Spiritbond and an entire, eg, Dungeon run just to pick up 3% bond and be able to reset the item back to 1%. This feels punishing and frustrating.

If items were allowed to "overflow" Spiritbond in the same way that they can "overflow" Condition, then this situation would be alleviated: the item in the given example would overflow to 132% Spiritbond, and then be reduced to 33% (132% minus 99%) upon Extraction.

[Nixxe]

And endless stream of free materia isn't good enough?

[Shurrikhan]

And endless stream of free materia isn't good enough?

-> "You want new jobs? 18 of them weren't good enough?!"

That a (controversial, apparently) improvement was made does not mean it must preclude obvious QoL.

I just can't imagine caring that I'm like 5% less efficient than the theoretical maximum at generating worthless garbage.

Then don't care. Feel free also to chalk up anyone else's caring to OCD. But what harm does it do you?

[Nixxe]

-> "You want new jobs? 18 of them weren't good enough?!"

That a (controversial, apparently) improvement was made does not mean it must preclude obvious QoL.

I just can't imagine caring that I'm like 5% less efficient than the theoretical maximum at generating worthless garbage.

Then don't care. Feel free also to chalk up anyone else's caring to OCD. But what harm does it do you?

What does harm have to do with anything? I asked OP a question. Now you seem like you're about two seconds from challenging me to a fight on the playground after school.

Though if harming people is what you think is relevant, stop misusing diagnostic terminology. It just promotes misunderstanding of what those diagnostic labels actually mean and the impact they have on the people who have those illnesses, which can cause actual harm to them.

[Payadopa]

Talking about spiritbonding, I'd love to have a little icon on the gear that tells me when spiritbonding is complete, not just the little white bar. Didn't we have that in 1.0, come to think of it? I guess I already know the answer then. lol

[Yelta_Sumasu]

Talking about spiritbonding, I'd love to have a little icon on the gear that tells me when spiritbonding is complete, not just the little white bar. Didn't we have that in 1.0, come to think of it? I guess I already know the answer then. lol

We do get a log message that says our spirit bond with [item] is complete.

[Shurrikhan]

What does harm have to do with anything?

There are either of two possibilities:

1. What the OP was suggesting has some slippery slope we're not seeing but you had and you were implicitly arguing the demerits outweighed the merits.
2. You were poking fun at the OP for no particular reason.

Sorry if I assumed you were being constructive.

Though if harming people is what you think is relevant, stop misusing diagnostic terminology.

I mentioned it only because I was diagnosed as minorly into the OCSDs in childhood and understand that my condition, insofar as it yet lingers, can create certain biases or deepened criteria not held by the majority of players. I may therefore value the merits of correcting an issue that was newly created in what was otherwise an improvement, such as here, more than most. So if there's a demerit here I'm not seeing, by all means...