I do harvesting for both of my gathering and crafting materias. I use SB potions, FC bonus, 2 +3 rings and go harvest a whole bunch of stuff. It works well enough for me. Note that each +1 adds 10% bonus to SB speed.
Sorry, but I never had a need to farm DOM/DOW materia. I would imagine grinding mobs either in dungeons or outside of them would be optimal. Wearing gathering gear on a DOM/DOW class would probably reduce it's speed at killing things since you have to do things that are close to the level of the gear you are spirit bonding.
Sorry, but I never had a need to farm DOM/DOW materia. I would imagine grinding mobs either in dungeons or outside of them would be optimal. Wearing gathering gear on a DOM/DOW class would probably reduce it's speed at killing things since you have to do things that are close to the level of the gear you are spirit bonding.