Yeah, I am still in the process of working on my first and only Novus....and I can understand the nerf to the amount of soldiery the hunts drop, since they did decrease the amount of soldiery needed to exchange for a mysterious map to do to get an Alexandrite....I do wish however, that the amount of elite marks needed for an Alexandrite was lower. I mainly use my marks for those, but 200 always seemed a bit high. I thought maybe 75 or 80 was a decent number for Alexandrite, but even 100 would seem appropriate since it would take a few days of doing the daily hunt marks to get 1 if you don't go for A ranks or S ranks.