Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[LunarEmerald]

Not confirmed.

Reddit has a post of someone on their tier 2 materia after 7 melds.

[Tranquil]

Ok, not to be a dickhead, but how about updating that OP, as you said you would, OP? Reading through 42 pages to snipe some tidbits of info seems quite the workload. (And to be honest, I just want to know for the sake of knowing before I start working on my WHM Novus, as I already have the HA weapon on my main spec).

[Nero]

So, higher tiers only... increase the change of success. I don't know what to say. Well, I'll go back to my grind, I need 50 of these Alexandrites...

Edit: 49. Just got one in a FATE.

You need 49? Did you gather 26 pieces allready? O_O

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Not confirmed.

Reddit has a post of someone on their tier 2 materia after 7 melds.

IMO it depends on the cap. I mean, the 4 tiers can be splitted between the maxium stat cap. For example:

Stats with a 44 cap (11 materia/tier)
Stats with a 31 cap (7/8 materia/tier)

Curtana and Holy Shield are the exception here, because they have different caps compared to a full weapon, so they maybe need less materias in order to get a higher tier.

You need 49? Did you gather 26 pieces allready? O_O

Curtana needs 53 Alexandrites and the Holy Shield needs 22 Alexandrites =75 total. I'm upgrading my Curtana first.

[sairaus]

lunar its what cyrus said, my buddy is doing det and he hit t2 with 8, acc which is what im going for took 11 to go to t2

[Shea]

Looks like infusion 8 will be the Grade 2. It says I'm missing alex now for the grade two vice the wrong grade of materia and grade 1 now says wrong type of materia. The chance at success for 7th infusion on +det was 50% (one failure)
Edit: I think tier changes can be estimated (visually seen) by lookign at the glow on the scroll. It appears to be moving towards the bottom left at least for the +Det.

[LunarEmerald]

Can't wait for someone to complete this so we know exactly how it works.

[LunarEmerald]

IMO it depends on the cap. I mean, the 4 tiers can be splitted between the maxium stat cap. For example:

Stats with a 44 cap (11 materia/tier)
Stats with a 31 cap (7/8 materia/tier)

Curtana and Holy Shield are the exception here, because they have different caps compared to a full weapon, so they maybe need less materias in order to get a higher tier.



Curtana needs 53 Alexandrites and the Holy Shield needs 22 Alexandrites =75 total. I'm upgrading my Curtana first.

This theory makes a lot of sense

if true then determination will be 7/8/8/8. Not 7 or 8 across the board because you can't divide 31 by 4 into a whole number.

Requiring at least 8/11 tier 4s is just insane. I pray this isn't the case or Yoshi is out of his freaking mind.

[Arkista]

I didn't check today but can we have more than one map at a time in our inventory?

[Shinun]

Isn't SE doing what everyone wanted though? So many threads about making FFXIV like FFXI and now on this step your able to pay millions just like in XI relics.