Spirit Bonding High Level Crafting

[Astral_Moonflower]

HQ gear spiritbonds 20% faster than NQ gear

Melded gear bonds faster than non-melded gear

The more melds the gear has the faster it bonds

Higher materia ranks produce faster bonding than lower rank ones

The rate of spiritbonding does not differ between item types or slots, it only depends on the item level

Ilvl 55 gear has a chance to convert into rank IV but is always rank III at the minimum

Thanks so much. this is some great advice.

[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.