Please move the game away from grind and towards skill

[Legacy_Wolfwood]

the 75 day time frame imo is to hold novus till 2.3 when a few things happen with the ilvl increase...

1. 3rd coil. new higher allagan wep.
2. ramuh. new ilvl weps.
3. possibly another type of wep that you can get from tomes/coil that is just under the new allagan wep kinda like the unidentifieds.
4. the new relic upgrade which will always be a grind.
5. number 2 and 3 will probably have an upgrade mechanic like mirrors/sands/oil type

coil = skill/rng, ramuh = skill/rng, possible random tome drop wep = rng/skill/grind, relic upgrade = pure grind/rng

being that atm the choices are coil for 2 weps, levi for 1 and mirror, and the relic line. relic is fine being the pure grind wep. besides, you dont NEED novus to beat whats currently out atm and possibly wont be 100% needed till 2.3 and even then i bet you can still get by with whats available for awhile.

all complaints come from: "It takes too long, i dont want to run coil, and I want it now"

[Orophin]

the 75 day time frame imo is to hold novus till 2.3 when a few things happen with the ilvl increase...

There won't be an ilvl increase in 2.3, that will be 2.4. 2.3 is CT2 and Ramuh which are going to drop i100 items.

To the OP - If you want the Novus to be something skill based, yet limit the rate of completion, (from the perspective of the developers) then it's going to need to be something similar to the original relic quest, only tuned to the difficulty of T9. This won't work because it will exclude most of the players of the game by not giving casual/less skilled/uninterested people who can't/don't want to run Coil an upgrade option.

[Legacy_Wolfwood]

There won't be an ilvl increase in 2.3, that will be 2.4. 2.3 is CT2 and Ramuh which are going to drop i100 items.

thanks for the correction. but still. 1 of the many options being pure grind is fine considering everything else is more skill based