Spiritbonding is, naturally, the cheapest way to go about getting materia. Ideally, i70-i90 crafted gear will give you the best returns on IVs, but I believe the low end is i45, granted it's a much smaller chance of converting into a IV. Urth's Fount, Castrum Meridianum, and BCoB T4 are generally the routes people go for SBing.
That being said. Honestly, I'd recommend saving your gil, and your time. Min-maxing a relic this close to Heavensward won't really do you much good. No content in this game comes even remotely close to requiring it, and at the end of the day it's definitely a luxury as opposed to a necessity. The difference on a parse from a maxed out relic versus one up to IIIs is pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. Player skill and adequate current tier equipment is more than enough for any content in-game right now. I mean, my Ninja isn't even BiS and I'm pushing over 600 sustained solo, no food, no potions. Those numbers are significantly higher (about 100 or so) than what T13 and Savage are tuned for, so at the end of the day, had I maxed out my relic I would have been looking at bumping my sustained up 5, maybe 10. To me, that isn't at all worth the fortune.
If you have the money and want to do it, you can certainly go for it, but it's not really necessary at all. Personally, I wasn't about to drop that kind of cash on something that will be outclassed come Heavensward, so I went for Det III, Crit III, and capped the rest with accuracy. Which incidentally wound up being a good choice, as I've been far too lazy to farm up my BiS on Ninja and can't actually use my Dreadwyrm Daggers in T13 because I'm not acc capped with them.
Det/crit is the BiS route for all physical DD and tanks. It does, however, have a value of several million gil, or more if you have bad RNG with the melding process. If you're going to finish it at all, my personal recommendation is the route I went. Det III, Crit III, and Accuracy to the scroll's cap. At the end of the day, the accuracy melds will give you a bit more variation in choosing your build outside of sacrificing det and/or crit food for accuracy.
Bottom line, I feel like it's just not worth the millions of gil this close to Heavensward.
That being said. Honestly, I'd recommend saving your gil, and your time. Min-maxing a relic this close to Heavensward won't really do you much good. No content in this game comes even remotely close to requiring it, and at the end of the day it's definitely a luxury as opposed to a necessity. The difference on a parse from a maxed out relic versus one up to IIIs is pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. Player skill and adequate current tier equipment is more than enough for any content in-game right now. I mean, my Ninja isn't even BiS and I'm pushing over 600 sustained solo, no food, no potions. Those numbers are significantly higher (about 100 or so) than what T13 and Savage are tuned for, so at the end of the day, had I maxed out my relic I would have been looking at bumping my sustained up 5, maybe 10. To me, that isn't at all worth the fortune.
If you have the money and want to do it, you can certainly go for it, but it's not really necessary at all. Personally, I wasn't about to drop that kind of cash on something that will be outclassed come Heavensward, so I went for Det III, Crit III, and capped the rest with accuracy. Which incidentally wound up being a good choice, as I've been far too lazy to farm up my BiS on Ninja and can't actually use my Dreadwyrm Daggers in T13 because I'm not acc capped with them.
Det/crit is the BiS route for all physical DD and tanks. It does, however, have a value of several million gil, or more if you have bad RNG with the melding process. If you're going to finish it at all, my personal recommendation is the route I went. Det III, Crit III, and Accuracy to the scroll's cap. At the end of the day, the accuracy melds will give you a bit more variation in choosing your build outside of sacrificing det and/or crit food for accuracy.
Bottom line, I feel like it's just not worth the millions of gil this close to Heavensward.
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