Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Sargthal]

how do you get one per day?

[AlyssaFhey]

Quest called no man's trash near Aniumus enchantment dude. Finish it and it'll open up a daily in Mor Dhona, where you need to do an expert roulette to get a Map. Do the map and you get an Alexandrite. Be warned though map is brutally hard. Bring another person or two with you.

[Yukiko]

You don't start out with the highest materia it stats you with tier 1s only and you work your way up to higher materia.

I have it, yea, so what?
Do you really think they do not lock it once you unlocked next level?
I highly doubt you can fill all with just level 1 materia! Please think before posting...
Still have hopes, as previously said - rumor is that the success rato grows with time - that would be ok then and a nice move...

We just dont know enough yet, but it is not nice from SE to let us test on our own because its way tooo expensive!

[Elim]

Do people not realize that you are guaranteed to get at least 1/day. Not sure if willfully ignorant or just dumb.

Guaranteed one infusion a day?

[kiraan]

Do people not realize that you are gaurenteed to get at least 1/day. Not sure if willfully ignorant or just dumb.

Problem is you can fail melding and lose materia + alexandrite. IMHO its worse than the atma/animus part.

[Spellbinder]

Problem is you can fail melding and lose materia + alexandrite. IMHO its worse than the atma/animus part.

When infusing at less than 100%, I'm pretty sure the dialog box reads as follows:

"If the infusion fails you will lose the materia but not the alexandrite. Proceed?"

With at least one guaranteed alexandrite a day from doing roulettes, you'll have all the alexandrite you need in 75 days or less. It's just a matter of materia.

[Duuude007]

SO whos been grinding for the past 12 hours and has over 5 melds? curious if we need 15 sphere scrolls per weapon :x

[Awrini]

Even if you fail, it's still 100x more casual friendly than both the atma and animus grinds just from the daily. Less time needed for that alexanderite.

[KaitlynOfOz]

I've been reading all the pages so far and so far no one has really commented on the elephant in the room, the requirements for the fate drops.

So to get an Atma item to drop (which bizarrely is still an inventory item and not a key item) you have to have a Zenith weapon equipped. Ok, so you collect 12 and you get your Atma weapon but stop getting Atma drops from Fates and have to actively do fates with a Zenith weapon if you want to collect more Atma to upgrade more relics. Now we have the Novus quest and the Alexandrites only drop with the Animus equipped which when equipped will not have Atmas drop. Conversely to get Atmas you need a Zenith which will make Alexandrites not drop. Does no one see this as a problem or an extension of an already hated grind?

The system should be that I start the Zodiac quest with Zenith and I farm fates for Atma (farm, farm, farm, kill keyboard, farm, farm, farm). Now I have an Atma weapon. Any fate I do should have the same chance for an Atma to drop so I can Atma my remaining Zeniths using my Atma weapon or Zenith weapon. Now I have an Animus weapon and start hunting for Alexandrites which I should also have a chance for Atmas to drop so I can Atma my remaining Zeniths. If I choose to Fate with Zeniths I should still get a chance at Alexandrites since its the highest item in my Zodiac quest line.

To be forced to farm Fates (community has deemed to be a serious problem) not only once but twice for two sets of drops that don't even overlap in their drop rates. All those people who have gone weeks and months without an Atma drop now get to double down on that experience with Alexandrites and this is completely ignoring the Myth farming.

There was a chance here to make an onerous process at least have some benefit, but instead doubled down on it. Sure this weapon is a long term grind for those of us not in Second Coil, but the amount of time most have put into getting just the Atmas, we could have been spiritbinding and selling the Materia and buying T5 farm parties for the drop and even into the Second Coil. This just doesn't seem right.

[Zakalwe]

Many are talking about how the huge expense of buying materia for the novus is a will be a massive gil sink. Actually, it is nothing of the sort, as gil sinks actually remove gil from the game. Well, a tiny sink from the transaction tax, but it is really nothing more than a transfer of gil from players wanting to upgrade their relics to either players who do lots of spirit bonding or, quite often, to RMTs who use bots for the purpose. The RMTs then sell that gil to other players who want to buy their materia, all while making a tidy profit and stealing a bunch of accounts in the process. In fact, to the extent that RMTs ramp up their operations for this new opportunity, it might end up pumping more gil into the game rather than taking out a little bit through transaction costs.