Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[affenmensch]

drop rate is the same as atma

also same spots as atmas? or all fates over the world?

[ShinkuTachi]

question is which grind is more entertaining? bray or fates?

Ohhhhh let me answer this!

After having spammed BL for Book completion and Sol, I vote FATEs.

[Duuude007]

been 100% the whole time

over 5 melds on same scroll yes? wonder why npc said cap of 5.... can we apply buff to animus every 5 infused?

[Itseotle]

Ohhhhh let me answer this!

After having spammed BL for Book completion and Sol, I vote FATEs.

fates i can durp around in and watch TV. Bf i have to focus but it's still boring. I might try fate grinding this weekend. I can take it casually, do some low pressure spirit bonding, and get seals too. If i can get one every 2 hours or so, it might be more appealing than bf spam.

[dannycookies]

I did 100 fates in bentbranch today and didn't get any Alex. How has your luck been? Pretty sure I'm going to stick with bray :/

[ShinkuTachi]

Also, keep in mind that we have the Hunts coming up in 2.3 that we can get Alexandrite from; and, it's also possible that there will be other ways that haven't been announced yet.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they got stuck on unspoiled nodes, with a prerequisite of some crazy Gathering stat.

[SirSaber]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they got stuck on unspoiled nodes, with a prerequisite of some crazy Gathering stat.

Wold be cool honestly but I doubt it.

[BobbinT]

sigh.... I'm not huge fan of melding, to be precise... I loathe RNG being the base of it all. I for one, are one from many crafters who have blown so many, and it is pure RNG hell.

I can't think the horror of wasting hundreds of materia and possibly millions of gils, and leaving higher tier for last stretch might be way more painful. No matter how big are your materia saving, it might be mostly wasted for this. ^^;

[Pomelo]

I saved so much money for personal housing...seems Im gonna blow it all on Materia >.<

[Behb]

Done 1h30-2h fate grinding, 0 alexandrite, clearly better to kill ourselves on brayflox ...
Thanks Yoshi for delaying the patch for "alternative" route, because there is no one.