Spirit Bonding High Level Crafting

[Nenin]

Thanks so much. this is some great advice.

You're welcome. A few other bits:



Ilvl 55 gear takes twice as long to bond as ilvl 50 gear.

Ilvl 45+ guarantees a rank III materia for crafting/gathering gear (or at least 95%, haven't gotten below III with any)

Ilvl 44 and below seems to only give rank I/II. I'm sure there's a similar cutoff to the 45 II-III one but I haven't played around enough to find it.

While melded gear spiritbonds much faster it doesn't seem to affect the conversion results at all.

If I had to guess I'd say the % probability of getting a rank IV materia from 55 gear is somewhere between 5-10%, it's not very good.

[Bufkus]

Instead of trying to craft your way to 100% spiritbond, I really suggest just running CM or AK and wearing the items in question while killing trash. Then switch to your normal gear on bosses. I'm trying to spiritbond a Patrician's glove right now and it went from 40ish% to 64% in one AK run just from killing trash. CM would be even faster.

[supert123]

Tier 4 comes from ILVL 70 gear which can only be bonded by the appropriate mob level ie: Coil.