Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Fireseen]

What I want to know, do you have to have a crafter or you just hit ok and roll the dice?

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Now I'm glad I still have 2 more books to finish. Despite having a choice of stats, everyone knows there will end up being a "best" stat set up for each weapon and the first players are going to be the guinea pigs. This may be the longest step for me since I don't plan on blowing my gil on overpriced materia. That's a lot of materia plus getting alexandrite.

[Richiealvian]

Now I'm glad I still have 2 more books to finish. Despite having a choice of stats, everyone knows there will end up being a "best" stat set up for each weapon and the first players are going to be the guinea pigs. This may be the longest step for me since I don't plan on blowing my gil on overpriced materia. That's a lot of materia plus getting alexandrite.

Well, it's going to reset again for the next tier..

[ShinkuTachi]

By the look of it, it asked for a specific materia and alex... pretty hard to mess that up. The way you can mess it up is picking a secondary stat you end up learning you didnt want or you gimped yourself.

That's what I want to make 100% sure I don't screw up on. I'd hate to dump a load of time, effort, and gil into something; only to find out I messed up and need a do-over (which won't be available until a future patch, 2.3 at the earliest).

[Surian]

Well, there -is- an infusion successrate...

I'm guessing the more materia you put in there, the higher the tier of it needs to be to keep a reasonable successrate :/

[Quiz]

Where do you get the ink from? Standard myth merchant in mor dhona?

[Zumi]

Anyone get alexandrite from a fate yet?

[Erudain]

Well I guess it'll take time and theorycraft...but I would like some clarification:

The Gae Bolg Animus in the patch notes screen has ACC+40 and CRIT+28.
After using the Sphere Scroll it has SKS+31 and CRIT+44

That means he lost his ACC? or do they add up?
I don't think the resulting weapon would have ACC+40 and CRIT+28 as base bonuses plus "additional bonus" of SKS+31 and CRIT+44

[ServerCollaps]

it loses everything and you have to meld every single point of 2 stats of your choice into it

[Elim]

Crit on Omnilex, here I come. I already have a buttload of det and crit materia. I don't have tons of level 4's though...so hopefully that's not required or else I may end up SBing during dungeons, because the main SBing spot will likely be spammed or taken over by bots.