Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Starkbeaumont]

I dont mind the grind, but materia? really? Supply of those was already limited since unless you go spiritbonding, endgame doesnt provide any of those. Main stat materia remain mostly useless except you can sacrifice 5 of them and maybe you get a useful one...

It seems this will be even more rng based than getting the atmas...

[Arrak]

You start at I materia and as far as I can see at the moment it will require multiple I materia before you unlock the "II" materia meld. And so forth to IV. What I don't know yet is whether or not you'll still be able to meld the I materia once the II is unlocked. The help text says that increasingly powerful materia will be needed as infusions progress. This makes it seem like in order to hit a cap for a particular cap you'll need IV's.

Alexandrite can be obtained from treasure maps. They cost 800 myth or a daily Expert Roulette quest. Might be weekly? It can also be obtained as a low drop from FATEs. One Alexandrite is needed for each meld.

Novus requires an initial 1500 myth buy in. You have to buy 3 superior something inks to turn in for the sphere (or spheres) that correspond to your weapon.

[Enepttastic]

It makes sense.

I am 100% positive, more effort was put into that interface than designing the Atma/Animus "quests".

[Nero]

When i tried to meld grade II, III or IV, it said "Materia of a different grade must be used to progress this meld.

When I tried Grade I, it said "You do not possess any Alexandrites."

You know what would be really funny? If it would only work with tier I and all those people who did empty the wards allready and bought tier IV for 5 Mil+ total, will now sit on them like this:

[Arrak]

It makes sense.

The next step is another I materia for me.

[melflomil]

Alright I can get get my Scholar relic now and put 44 critical hit and maybe 44 piety for Adloquim spam.

[SarcasmMisser]

Oh boy, delicious RNG melding here we come!

[Skapoc]

Simple break down of the quest.

1. Get 3 inks for 500 myth each.
2. Hand in inks to get sphere scroll.
3. Infusing sphere scroll requires Alexandrite and grades 1-4 materia of the stats in question. First infusion needs to be grade 1. Total stats for each sphere scroll is 75 and the max you can get on one single stats seems to be 44 leaving you 31 left of the other stat. First infusion with a grade 1 was 100% giving you one point. This possiblly means you need 75 Alexandrite to finsh the quest unless when you can infuse grade 2-4 materia it gives more then 1 point each.

This means it might take a while and a lot of materia to finish this quest.

Getting Alexandrite -
1. Daily quest for a mysterious map gives one each day. Requires you to do the Expert Roulette(can do as a group).
2. 800 myth for more maps fro Rowena.
3. Fate grind(prob has the same drop rate as an Atma since they share the same pop-up when you get one)

[poipoy]

but isn't piety consider a main stats? so maybe can't do piety?

[Duuude007]

Curtana stat cap is 53, Holy Shield is 22.

The servers went down for maintenance before I could open my first map coffer, was it tougher than peiste maps? Similar? Or was any combat involved at all?