tier 4 materiaFollow

soo how long do you guys think itll take before those absurd tier 4 materia prices go away?

Also how long (minutes or hours) would you say it takes to get a 0% spiritbond tier 4 producing armor to 100% spiritbond?

Duo passed me up, working on Novus already x.x

Anyways. Spirit bonding. It really depends on how and where you are doing it its really hard for me to give a static time-frame because my group tends to do it through instancing together, so we're completing multiple objectives rather than hammering out one specifically at the best efficiency.

The typical farming locations are wherever you can get multiples of higher level mobs clustered together, so figure on places like Northern Thanalanm the Castrum at Cape Westwind, and The Castrum outside of Wineport.

What I've managed to scrounge up is about an hour per bonding cycle at the above camps, not including bonuses.

Keep in mind there are Grand Company Items, as well as the Meteor Ring that will help your spirit binding, as well as any high quality or melded meteria also quickens the spirit bonding rate.

Good luck!

When I conducted some testing a while ago, I found the difference to be about 20%.

The number of materia affixed also impacts binding rates. Each materia slot filled on an item increases the rate by about 20%, regardless of the type or tier of the materia used. Consequently, I found that an NQ item with one materia had the same binding rate as an HQ item with no materia.

So if you want stuff to bind faster, start with HQ and meld as many materias as seems reasonable. Just get junk tier 1 materia like elemental ones, fill up the gauranteed materia slots, and then possibly do one over meld. Doing too many over melds per item will cut into the profit you hope to make converting the item later to the point where it could wipe out whatever benefit you would get from the increased binding rate.

Whelp pretty much every Tier IV plummeted except for Gathering and Crafting ones for quite awhile because let's face it, unless you honestly didn't do end-game, chances are you were one of the handful who actually bothered with overmelds which dropped the price dramatically after awhile (not as high of a demand compared to T3 needed for relics.)

So after Novus rush dies down it'll plummet again, even more so depending on whats to come in in 2.3. I still have around 47 tier IV cracked materia and 70 Tier III from my CC SB days in 1.2x, so I'll be fine regardless, but you'll be much better off SBing yourself and praying for non elemental materia.

now if only there was a way to control what TYPE of materias you get (type not tier) i.e i wouldnt wanna waste all day spiritbonding tier 4 just to get 10 tier 4 materia and NONE of them be the type I want lol

Even if that does happen, you can take a chance on converting them to something more useful/valuable at the Gobbie NPC near Drybone. Of course, this is a gamble, but if you get 5 junk tier IV's that are worth next to nothing, it's certainly worth a shot.

It was added in a patch or two ago, the reason you likely didn't know/hear about it is because it was largely deemed "not worth it" and kind of forgotten about in the long run lol.

Mmhmm, realistically, you turn 5 materia (was it 5?) into a random single materia of equal level. If you used 1x T3 and 4x T2 you would get a 19% chance to get a T3 materia back, or a 76% chance to get a T2 materia. And there was at all times a 5% chance to upgrade your tier into the next level. You could use this to essentiall get cheap "upgrades" if the materia you throw in is trash.

But the downside is that...

6 materia are for Elements.
6 are for attributes
4 are for sub-stats (accuracy, determination, crit, parry)
2 are for speed (skill speed/spell speed)
3 are for crafting
3 are for gathering

And if there is one specific materia you're after, you get a 1 in a 24 RNG chance of getting the right one.

Which was already bad, but if you use 5x Tier 3 hoping to get a Tier 4 out of it, you're basicly looking at a 1 in 480 chance to get a Tier 4 materia that you were after.
And if you use the common 1x T4 and 4x T3 you'd still be looking at a 1 in 120 chance of getting the Tier 4 materia you were after.
The only reasonable way to do this is to use 5x Tier 4 materia, which would be immensely expensive (even elemental ones) and would still only get you a 1 in 24 chance of getting that materia you were after.

So unless the materia you want is 500.000 gil, and you can purchase a Tier 4 materia of any kind for gamling for less than 4166 gil, you shouldnt bother with this unless you're feeling extremely lucky. (5x Tier 4 at a 4% chance makes you need 120 before you get it right)

I went through 80 materia myself the day this came out. My entire retainer stockpile of Tier 3's and the end of the day i got three materia that i wanted to use for melding on my crafter, and nothing even remotely worth selling.