BLM Stardust Rod Novus's Stats choices

[uryell]

Don't forget your novus will be upgrade so piety would raise too high in that way.

[BobbinT]

This is so confusing. Base stat of Animus has 20 deter, but most of these post suggest replacing it with crit instead. Would anyone explain each of 2ndary stat effects? Almost 75 alexandrite and still confused ^^;

Or maybe I just follow the original stat instead, ss/deter. ^^;

[Numenor1379]

This is so confusing. Base stat of Animus has 20 deter, but most of these post suggest replacing it with crit instead. Would anyone explain each of 2ndary stat effects? Almost 75 alexandrite and still confused ^^;

Or maybe I just follow the original stat instead, ss/deter. ^^;

Crit was based off the old numbers we had for stat weights. Now though, the new data has shown Det to be the stat you want to pair with Spell Speed.

I guess the only question remaining is point distribution (and deciding if you are going to be adding Piety onto your weapon).

I am almost now thinking of goint +8 Pie, +27 Det, +40 SSPD, instead of maxing SSPD... not sure.

[BobbinT]

I've been reading about PIE for pushing one more spell in rotation. But was it worth? At least compared with bigger Deter which affect damage points.

And after some info from LS mates, it seems like crit itself has diminishing return, meaning that it shouldn't be going over certain point threshold. And it seems heavy RNG-based too.

[Adelphe]

I read this thread when it first started and alot said skill speed and stuff like that, i messed around with my stats and SS gave me like an reduced my casts by like 0.03, i'm a sucker for big numbers and Critical Hits

So i've gone so far 37/44 Crit, 23/31 det, that leaves me 15 points, i've read about this piety stuff and so i tested it, i have tried rotation with a whm in group, i get off Fire3>Fire1x5>blizzard3>wait half a second to 1 second then i can throw in my thunder 2.

I have 242 piety, 249 with scholar in party, my raid group has a scholar, but i can imagine if having the 251 means i dont have to wait for my mp to do thunder 2 then my rotation would be a lot smoother.

So in my opinion, having 251 is a good idea, even if u have to put it on with your novas weapon, and whether u go SS or CRIT or DD, w/e combination is personal choice of what you prefer, i've also thought about adding abit of acc to my novas so maybe 2 piety and 13 acc god knows yet =p

[NyneAlexander]

I started my novus before 2.3 and already had 25 CRIT logged in with the intentions of going 44 SS, 31 crit. Then the new info on DET came out. I was already too far in to scrap all of that work (and gil) and start over. Eff that.

So I ended up going:

40 SS
25 crit
10 piety

Then I reconfigured my additional stats to 29 INT, 1 PIE. This put me at 251 base piety.

Never have I been happier with a decision. My rotation feels flawless, and I have enough on convert to do Fire II > Flare for AoE rotations. Highly recommend getting to 251 piety base.

[Adelphe]

Thing is info is always gona change, what is best now will change a month or so from now, i just love that what ever i go i'll have a decent chance of having a unique Novas weapon different to alot of people, plus another reason not to go full 44 crit and 31 det is the price of those lvl 4 materias, i've been spiritbonding for weeks and no luck on lvl 4 det materia

[Maero]

Curious what any of your stats are after upgrade, like acc, crit, etc.
I got too annoyed of doing fates for over 3 months and still only 6 atma so went with Laevateinn. My acc is now 503 and crit 473

[Numenor1379]

Curious what any of your stats are after upgrade, like acc, crit, etc.
I got too annoyed of doing fates for over 3 months and still only 6 atma so went with Laevateinn. My acc is now 503 and crit 473

Well, I can't give you a final stat level as I've still got a couple pieces of i100 stuff to get, but I can give you what I'm getting for a boost on the Novus over what I've got now...

+8 Pie
+3 Det
+4 SSPD
+6 Vit
+5 Int

Heh, when looking at that base increase it's rather silly the amount of time and resources we all are putting into the things. =D

[BobbinT]

you guys do realize that 20 deter on original animus are gone for good when you replace with something else, especially crit, right?