Quote Originally Posted by JamieRose View Post
Farming purple scrips?
Farming cowries?
Buying them off the MB?

These all seem burdensome or expensive. =(
Scrips is probably the easiest way, and if you pop a spiritbond potion and use a spiritbond scroll (obtainable from Squadron missions) whenever you gather the most current max difficulty gatherables, you can get some easy materia rather quickly that way too (and sell off the mats if you don't need them).

If you want super low effort just do the weekly custom deliveries for gathering and make sure it has the bonus so you get the extra scrips. Turn those in for materia and don't bother until next week when custom deliveries reset. It won't let you get a ton max rank materia fast, but it will let you get some consistently every week with minimal effort.

Honestly I hate doing gathering collectibles so I use my custom deliveries each week for gathering scrips and craft collectible turn ins for crafting scrips. I also have gotten have my squadron members to get "chance to bring back gathering scrips" perks. It's only white scrips so I can't use them to buy the max rank materia, but I can use them to buy the next rank down which is the ones I tend to burn through the most when pentamelding so every lil bit the squadron brings back helps me avoid having to farm gathering collectibles myself.