Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Giantbane]

You would take det over parry as a tank? why- mitigation means less to cure, easier to react in a timely manner for heals, cds imo.

I'm talking in a general sense, IF you value Det or Piety, it seems like a steal to get it at a better ratio than you normally would.

For me, personally I was planning Parry/Acc on my bravura. However, I may get cheap and not cap parry if I don't feel like buying 11+ battledance IV. In which case I'd probably put the rest in det.

It's 100% true that we won't know for sure until someone gets there. However, we know that any i110 weapon with Det or Piety does not have a full 75 points of secondary stats on it. Thus, I think that we'll end up having lower numbers of Det and Piety at the moment of the upgrade despite melding 75 total materia on the scroll. 31 Det infusions will translate to 22 Det on the weapon, and 33 Piety infusions will translate to 24 or 25. At least, that's what I think. It'd be unbalanced if these two stats actually circumvented the 75 point cap we've been presented with, and it would also be unfair if people had to infuse fewer materia based on what stat(s) they chose.

This is how I thought it would work. However, if that were the case, I would expect Det or Piety to cost 44 points to max, and the result would be the weighted max value. However, since Det/Piety have lower caps already built into the scroll sphere, it makes me think you do actually get those full stats without penalty.

This theory, of course, brings up a question: If you cap both Det and Piety on a scroll, don't they add up to less than 75? Is it actually impossible to just have these two stats on a weapon?

I was under the impression you can hand in the sphere scroll whenever, but if you turn it in without all 75 melds, you end up with a gimped Novus that doesn't get all the secondary stats. So, you *could* do it, you're just gimping yourself unnecessarily, however.