Spiritbond: Quick Synth vs Normal SynthFollow

So far as I have been able to tell, it's the same rate regardless of quick or standard synth. Your gear durability, however, will plummet twice as fast using quick synth. Spiritbonding takes into consideration three major factors: your level, the item level and the quality of the item. So, for example the level 55 gear is not going to bond as quickly as a level49 crafting armor piece, but it would net you that juicy materia.

There are a few accessory slots that hold spiritbonding+ items: neck, wrists, one ring from a quest. If you can make an aetheryte ring or purchase one, that's your second ring slot. My best suggestion if you're just trying to grind out the bond, plop those on and go to town crafting consumables ad infinitum until the armor slots are done.

I guess they think of it as your penalty for not pushing your macro button instead, idk. Kind of silly if you ask me!

Depends...on stuff where I know it's going to take two or three careful syntheses just to complete, i've got my #1 button set up for that. Better than hitting my #4 multiple times.

I am pretty sure EXP plays a big part. I was farming Lightning shards on my BTN and wanted to finish the session Bounding an Axe I wasn't using any more. I went for 45-60 mins getting 20 EXP a pop on shards and the bar barely moved. I switched to another item (Wildfowl Feather's or something) and a few HQ gathers later the bar jumped and the item was spiritbounded in 2 mins.

My BTN is only 38, the shards gave 20 EXP and the HQ Feathers like 800ish.

I'm going to change my view a bit here on Spiritbond gain and exp. I just had Spiritbond complete on a piece of gear when I messed up and failed a synthesis. As far as I know, a failed crafting attempt does not yield exp.

I'm guessing that Spiritbond rate is based on the difference between your level and the level of the mob (when fighting as DoW/DoM class), the level of the recipe (when crafting), or the level of the item you are gathering. Since that level difference determines the base amount of exp you would gain from the activity, it would feel like Spiritbond rate is related to exp gain. And if my guess is correct, they would still be related, though indirectly.

As far as Quick synthesis vs manual synthesis, I wouldn't be surprised if Quick synthesis comes with reduced Spiritbonding rate. SE probably wants to discourage using the game's built in automation to speed up Spiritbonding.

To the OP: if you want to speed up the Spiritbonding of your gear, try attaching some cheap Tier 1 crafting materia to it. SE's announcement about materia back during beta mentioned that gear with materia will Spiritbond faster. And tests by players have confirmed it. It also seems that the rate is higher for multiple materia than for a single materia. I don't know yet if higher grade materia also gives higher Spiritbond rate (e.g. if the same piece of armor with grade II materia will Spiritbond faster than if it was melded with a grade I materia instead). But if you're planning to convert the gear later, you probably don't want to sink some pricy materia into it anyway.

This is an interesting video on Spiritbond



tl:dw

HQ items spiritbond faster
Items w/ materia spiritbond faster

I just did a small sample size testing quick synthesis vs 0% quality synthesis vs HQ synthesis, all on new unmelded HQ red coral earrings (lvl 45), making linen thread (lvl 32)

1% bonded happened on first synth every time
2% at 9/9/9
3% at 13/13/gave up after it appears HQ% has minimal or no relation to bonding
4% at 16/16/-
5% at 21/21/-

Going on, using the first two above rings, which started at 5%. First with 0% quality synth, then with gambler's crown and 2 aetheryte rings (+3 bonding total)

6% at 24/24
7% at 28/27
8% at 32/31
9% at 36/34
10% at 40/38
11% at 44/41

Conclusions:

• Quick synth, no quality added synth, and HQ synth all give the same bonding rate
• Two of the quick synths failed, but it stayed in line with the others, so success or failure doesn't seem to affect bonding rate
• Gear with spirit bond +3 appears to give about a 15% boost to bonding rate, so likely +5% for every point of spiritbond
• Condition dropped at the same rate regardless, there is no condition penalty for quick synth. The penalty for a quick synth is that you get half the exp you would from a 0 quality synth, and 1/6 of the exp you would get from a 100% HQ rate synth (excluding food/rested/etc bonuses)

Again, small sample size, but it's enough to convince me. I'll do further testing with melded vs non-melded, and use a different level recipe tomorrow