Thread: Super General Discussion 2.0 - Always offering a happy, fun time~!

Originally Posted by Coris

I've been to the DPS forums and found a thread regarding BLM Novus... Only found out that maxing Piety to 251 might be useful and... that there actually is no "best way" so far @.@

There isn’t really a “Best way” to upgrade your Relic Novus, since it basically boils down to the stats you want to have or would supplement the stats of your (future) gear. For instance, for my tank i wanted to get as much Accuracy and fill up the rest with Parry and Determination.

So, in order to put a few things into perspective, the stats of my Curtana & Holy Shield Animus were:

Curtana:

• Strength +26
• Vitality +30
• Parry +20
• Accuracy +29

Holy Shield:

• Strength +11
• Vitality +12
• Parry +12
• Skill Speed +8

I at least wanted to keep the Accuracy and Parry stats the same, so i would have to at least infuse 29 Accuracy and 32 Parry into my gear. Since i have 2 items, the 75 Stat points you have to infuse into the gear were divided into 53 Stat Points for my Curtana and 22 for my Holy Shield.

When looking at the Stat caps for both weapons, the scrolls said that the cap for Accuracy was 31 on my Curtana and Parry was 31 on my Curtana and 13 on my Holy Shield. Since i can only infuse 53 stat points on my Curtana and i wanted to at least have the same amount of Accuracy and Parry on my Curtana, i decided that i would infuse 31 Accuracy into my Curtana, leaving me with 22 Stat point i could use for my Parry stat.

The Parry stat capped at 13 on my Holy Shield, so i had 9 stat points left to infuse on my Holy Shield. Since my Accuracy stat was well over the T9 requirement, i could spend my remaining points on a stat that would increase my damage, which could either be Skill Speed, Crit Hit Rate or Determination.

A Paladin doesn’t really rely on Crits, Skill Speed only makes me run out of TP faster (making it harder for me to keep my hate up during long battles), which left me with the the Determination stat (which capped at 9).

So, when i’m done with my Curtana and Holy Shield Novus, my stats will look like this:

Curtana:

• Strength +30 (+4 compared to Animus)
• Vitality +35 (+5 compared to Animus)
• Parry +22 (+2 compared to Animus)
• Accuracy +31 (+2 compared to Animus)

Holy Shield:

• Strength +12 (+1 compared to Animus)
• Vitality +14 (+2 compared to Animus)
• Parry +13 (+1 compared to Animus)
• Determination +9 (Changed from Skill Speed +8)

From what i seen, read and believe, you would want to focus on getting spell speed. Next to that, none of the high level Black Mage weapons have Piety on them. But, i’m not a career Black Mage, so could very well be wrong on that department (^_~ )

Let’s take a look at the stats of your Stardust Animus:

• Vitality +38
• Intelligence +37
• Determination +20
• Spell Speed +40

Since you have only 1 item you can infuse materia into, you will have 75 stat points at your disposal for your Stardust. If i remember correctly, the Spell Speed, Determination and Crit Hit Rate stats cap at 44 for your weapon.

In that case, if you cap your Spell Speed at 44, you have 31 stat points left to use. The Stardust itself has Determination on it, which you could then increase by a whopping 11 points. You can also infuse 20 Determination to keep the “base damage” the same and then 11 points into something else, like Crit Hit Rate, Piety or even Accuracy (like the Laevateinn has).

Let’s say that we’ll add 44 Spell Speed, 22 Determination and 9 Accuracy to the Stardust Novus. It’s stats will then look like this:

• Vitality +44 (+6 compared to Animus)
• Intelligence +42 (+5 compared to Animus)
• Determination +22 (+2 compared to Animus)
• Spell Speed +44 (+4 compared to Animus)
• Accuracy +9 (New stat compared to the Animus)

So, like i mentioned at the beginning. It basically boils down to what kind of stats you want to have.

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