Quote Originally Posted by Prototype909 View Post
How do you mitigate the cost of Novus though, which is arguably the biggest hurdle for most players? Unless you're asking people to just accept gimping themselves if they can't pay up which defeats the purpose of pursuing the weapon to begin with. There is no way a new player is going to have the few mil necessary to buy into the materia market.
People pay a ridiculous amount for Novus because they are uninformed / not aware of just how meaningless secondary stats are.

BLMs can deal 400+ damage per second on T8. The best BLM stats on novus per DMG calculators / testing is 44 spell speed and 31 crit. However, a 25 spell speed, 25 crit, 25 DET weapon will deal a mere 1 less DPS. Do the math. This means the 44 / 31 novus gains a laughable extra second of damage every 6.6 minutes. You get an itch on your face and have to scratch it and you've lost your worthless benefit. Nobody will notice a difference.

I'm sorry - but it's pointless to spend 10-15M gil for a benefit that nobody will ever notice. The 25, 25, 25 novus will cost 300-500k tops.