Novus Bow? Stats?

I went full crit and almost full det (missing around 10 det i think, added acc to finish it off)
Cost me over 1.5 million as have had no luck spirit binding and at the time DetIV's were over 650K on Leviathan, crit IV were around 530 or less.
Keep in mind after you have Nexus the next step does cost over 400K yet again. Just as a heads up for you to sb and save the gil.
But if i truly could have i would of went full crit/det

How did u go full crit and it only cost 1.5 million? With the materia costing 500k each?

Hmmm full crit(though I reinfused later) with as much det as I had available and 8 accuracy.

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Originally Posted by Caoihmin

How did u go full crit and it only cost 1.5 million? With the materia costing 500k each?

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I mentioned over 1.5 million, probably closer to 2.5 million actually. I have had a few IV materias from spirit binding also.
This next step for the Yoichi (sorry if i mispelled it) is stupid expensive also and just yeah.... stupid

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Originally Posted by Maero

I mentioned over 1.5 million, probably closer to 2.5 million actually. I have had a few IV materias from spirit binding also.
This next step for the Yoichi (sorry if i mispelled it) is stupid expensive also and just yeah.... stupid

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400k in gil straight up. The rest is market forces on the market board. I've probably spent ~400k for that as well but I've made enough from the 2 desynths I had and gathered other mats - crafted 5 items myself and the 3 by a friend. So not too much - I've spent more on the crit IV materia.

Do what you want for now, det+crit+acc is your best bet. With lvl cap going up in the expansion, my guess is t4 materia is going to be much more available and easy to get since you won't have to spend gillions on crafter gear/melds to make the gear required for t4 materia. Since you can remeld later anyway no need to break the bank a couple months beforehand.

I know Yoshi wants to involve crafters more but he involved them TOO much in these quests imo. And who's bright idea was it to make materia infusion fail when you need 75 of the buggers already? That's just redundant.

Anyway. Camp the MB for your zodiac items now, the prices swing so far between high and low that you will save yourself tons of gil in the long run if you don't have crafter friends or are one yourself.

All crit det. Or if you don't want to spend millions on IVs or spend hours SBing for IVs then put some acc on it. Ideally you want all crit det.

Also get used to melding because bard BIS has like 4 crafted pieces.

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Originally Posted by mahouyolo

All crit det. Or if you don't want to spend millions on IVs or spend hours SBing for IVs then put some acc on it. Ideally you want all crit det.

Also get used to melding because bard BIS has like 4 crafted pieces.

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Hmmm a friend of mine tried a full crit/det optimized and a full dex optimized build. The full dex one he had 460 skillspeed, he said needs a bit of resource management but the DPS increase was worth it apparently. I only got the pants myself and got the wod bard chest.

Skill speed and too much of it is just awful, reason why the ironworks chest is just a NO.
Last time i checked the Kimiru chest was still best and the pants are pretty awesome also, have not seen Demon Chest piece from wod however
Kimiru Coat cost me around 2.5 mil, and the pants thankfully was able to have a fc member craft it for me

Crit and det to what you can afford. Full the rest with acc to quickly move on to next steps. Slowly restat as needed pulling off excess acc that you don't need depending on your gearing. There are some nice i120 pieces in WoD for brds to round out a nice set especially if you can't afford the fully melded crafted pieces yet.

Oh and skill speed is the enemy!