Black Mage Novus

[scarebearz]

Make sure you add piety if you need it, people will argue about crit/ss/det till they are blue in the face, chose whatever stat you think suits your play style best, as I don't believe there is really much to chose between the 3.

[chidarake]

I have 30 crit, 25 dex and 20 ss on mine,

it was cheap to make and is a solid upgrade from animus and so I'm happy with it.

I was originally going to go all crit + det but it would of cost me 10mil in grade 4 materia to finish my weapon, yeah I have the gil no it wasn't worth it so I didn't bother.

I like the balance the weapon has now.

[Zaiken]

This is the answer.

I did 27 Crit / 25 SS / 23 Det and it cost me very little gil.

Anyone go with this setup are happy with it? Will losing some Crits and Det lower DPS down if put to Spell Speed instead of all going out on Crit + Det? I don't think I will have enough gil to go all Det + Crit and wouldn't even pick this if I knew it was this expensive and not worth it.

I may actually just go with this setup if the DPS increased is not even noticeable.

[Ginga_K]

I did SS44 DET 24 CRIT 7

-*well whatever stats missed or un-acquired, get a item with slots and do some melding.
Cheaper and benefits more than spending $$ on materia IV to get +1?
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[TomTom1968]

I got the feeling that it is quite irrelevant what you put on it lol. I put SS and Crit on mine and left DET out completely. A friend of mine has maxed DET out and left SS out. We both parsed eeeh noticed a raise of our dmg but it is in the same range for both of us. No wonder SE let us do a "choice" on secondary stats because what counts in the end is Weapon Damage and the main stat INT. The rest is nice to have but quite irrelevant. The only thing, especially as BLM, I would never advice is to use your weapon to reach an Accuracy cap. Accuracy shouldn't be on a weapon and especially BLM's have it quite easy to meet the higher Coil requirements with body items and accecoires only. If you really have problems with getting to the Acc cap, better get the Lavetinn. It has plenty of it.

[Underlord]

I just finished my blm novus the utter day. I went 34 crit/21 ss/20 det and live it... do good dmg n crit alot more often

[Olorin]

44 SSPD, 23 DET, 8 PIE here.

I'm on this same plan. Seemed like the best mix to maximize DPS.

[HaroldSaxon]

I'm on this same plan. Seemed like the best mix to maximize DPS.

It isn't the best mix to maximise DPS.

[Numenor1379]

It isn't the best mix to maximise DPS.

Best would be 44 SSPD, 31 DET. That being said however, Det IV materia is stupidly expensive and getting 251 Piety all the time (instead of only when grouped with a SCH) is nice.

[monochromicorn]

i never noticed enough of a change with SS to ever think it is important enough, a few .001 seconds isnt worth the wasted space for other stuff