Relic Questline about 30% too much IMHO

[Sairii]

You don't actually need any grade IV materias, you can put more than 2 types of stat on the novus, it just needs to total 75. I will have a relatively equal split on my Bravura between Parry, Acc and Det. This means I can be cheap and never use anything over a Tier 3 materia.

While your statement is true, I would still like my novus to be a good weapon with my statweights in mind.
I could just go every stat on my weapon but that would defeat the point of owning a novus.
And those greedy loothoarders that buy every piety materia under 200k and put it up in huge stacks of 1 mil per materia can kiss my little butt.

Or you could form a spiritbound group and go nuts with AoE, if you get what you need sweet but if not then sell all unwanted materias for profit and buy ones you need. Oh and its also best way to rank up your chocobo so its win-win.

I am spiritbonding with ppl. But grade 4s still take a long time. It takes more time to farm mats for the equip than spiritbonding.

[Giantbane]

While your statement is true, I would still like my novus to be a good weapon with my statweights in mind.
I could just go every stat on my weapon but that would defeat the point of owning a novus.
And those greedy loothoarders that buy every piety materia under 200k and put it up in huge stacks of 1 mil per materia can kiss my little butt.

The amount of grade 4 depends on the stat cap. I think the piety cap is ... 33? That means it requires 8 Tier IV (assuming no meld failures). However, if you trade that last 8 piety for 8 spell speed (or det) I don't think you're gimping yourself and you save quite a bit of money that way.