Farming Low level Materia should not be as difficult as it is now. You do not gain DoW/DoM spiritbond from overworld mobs, so there are only 2 other ways. Fate Grinding or Duty Grinding. This in of itself is not that big of a deal compared to what's next. Farm Close to the Item lvl duty/fate and get marginal spiritbond gain, Do higher than the item lvl and get more than normal spiritbond gain. So far so good but, wait for it, go too high and you go back to the minimal spiritbond gain rate again. I get it for Gatherer/Crafters but for combat jobs? Is this really necessary to gate the spiritbond rate for low level combat materia? I say if you go into a lvl 90 dungeon with a Ilvl 30 piece equipped and manage to survive and do the whole thing, then good for you here have a 100% spiritbond gain for that item. Am I alone in this or should we just accept that getting grade 1 materia for the ARR relic weapons has to be as painful as possible?