Novus Weapon Cost

[Nero]

I think that there must be Gil sellers on the board of Square-Enix because I can't understand the logic of this quest otherwise. The need to acquire Alexandrite is sufficient to pace the acquisition of a Novus weapon. The additional requirement to meld 75 pieces of materia (equal parts I, II, III and IV) is absurd.

I'm gathering up all the mats that I need before I do my first meld. I've already spent over $2M gil and figure it will cost $4M before I'm done. I've been doing this by selling other materia thatI get through Spirit Bonding.

I'm sure, though, that the more impatient types out there will simply buy gil to get the materia needed. According to this helpful tell I just got (which SE seems incapable of repressing), my $4M gil would only cost $28.

Seems to me that this part of the quest is a great big present to all the gil sellers.

You don't have to buy a single Materia, unless you don't want to SB them yourself, don't send out Retainers on Ventures and only if you want it done asap. If people are impatient, good for me so i make more Gil out of the Materia i create. But to blame this on SE, for being impatient ? Idk man.. seems pathetic.

And RMT's are really never a Problem, the people who buy Gil are the problem. Without buying gil, RMT's hardly would exist.