So glad Yoshi-P got all of our letters saying "We want more Brayflox!"

[Felis]

So.. let me get this straight, you can't believe that somebody would quit the game over not wanting to do something they don't enjoy, and then you go on to say that people should not do things they don't enjoy doing.

I think it's wonderful that none of your friends are quitting due to this "content" but whether you believe it or not several of mine are and that's the reason I dislike it.

But there are other options to get other high ilevel weapons.
It's like going into an ice shop, seeing that they sell strawberry ice and then tell the seller "I don't like strawberry ice. I leave" and ignoring all the other ice sorts in the shop.

[Elway358]

The Novus part is not even a grind? Do 1 Quest a day and after 75 days you have all the alexandrite you need in theory. People do not have to grind fates, myth or anything else to get them, so i don't really see how this is worse than atma, like some people say.

I will definitely agree with you here. In my opinion, that Atma crap is the worst thing ever put in this game and the sole reason I will not even start the Zodiac quests until its changed away from fate grinding for hours/weeks...

[Felis]

I get a 110 weapon with 2 more dmg and maybe 50 hps added to my health.

And 2 secondary stats of your choice

[Elway358]

And 2 secondary stats of your choice

You're missing his point. He already has the optimum stats on his weapon being a paladin. So he's basically going through all this bullshit for nothing but a simple ilvl upgrade. he's not "customizing" jack shit.

And yeah I didn't even think about that for folks that already have the perfect stats on their weap. That blows...

[RunaRugar]

[blowfin]

So glad Yoshi-P got all of our letters saying "We want more Brayflox!"
800 Myth for a map x 0/75 infusions.

60,000 Myth.

Final Brayflox brayflox brayflox XIV 2.0

If grinding Myth was the only way to work on Novus you might actually have a point. As it stands, if you choose to do it via Brayflox grinding alone that's totally up to you, but you have nobody to blame but yourself.

[Nauti]

My main gripe is the fact that there are so many options to utilize to make this different than the Animus, but they don't use it.

Company Seals > Soldiery Tomes (which I thought would've been logical) > Quest lines > Rowena's Tokens > Dungeon Clears > Book-like content > Possible drop from Extreme Primals > etc.

[blowfin]

My main gripe is the fact that there are so many options to utilize to make this different than the Animus, but they don't use it.

There's 3 quite different options, what more do you want? We'll also get more ways to get Alex with 2.3 and subsequent patches.

[Nauti]

Different as in, not supply "different" names for the same methods. The only thing "different" is the fact that there's a daily guarantee. The rest is RNG from Fates (much like the Atmas for the Atma upgrade) and myth grind (most efficiently from Brayflox HM, for the Animus upgrade).

I understand that heavy raiders feel threatened by the fact that people can obtain a weapon nearly as good or similar to the end game clear item, but in all reality, everyone who keeps pointing to the fact that they gave "different" options are purposefully ignoring it. And by the time 2.3 comes out, i110 will have easily been obtained from raiding to t8. And if people are that casual, gathering the items, gil/materia and alexandrites to perform the novus upgrade, they aren't going to have the time to invest in it by the time the next upgrade comes out if they even have the animus at this point.

[Nauti]

Plus, the suggestion of using seals just guarantees that if someone blows through 200 fates, they can get an extra alexandrite from the thing, or they have the addition of turning in darklight gear from different dungeons to obtain alexandrites, which would've added an easily viable option and welcomed addition to make it plausible to obtain by doing any dungeons, which is kind of what you got from the books when you had to clear 3 different dungeons. The options are still very limited.

And I strongly think soldiery should've somehow been included into this, whether or not it was a 100-150 soldiery turn in to buy one alexandrite per day.

We still don't even know the entire roadmap of alexandrites to get the "75" stat points and what success chances they have. People without money in the end, if the success rates are terrible (much like the 5th overmeld) they could potentially be spending millions or even more countless hours spirit bonding.