Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Alipoprocks]

Can you check if Lalafell girl with stardust rod animus is able to obtain Alexandrite from Fate too? Because it's been more than a week and I sill haven't gotten any from Fate while doing it every night.

LOL, me too. Maybe our server is broken because none of my friends have gotten any either.

[Ecks007]

Sheeet, I've done over 50 fates with my Wiyu Animus and have yet to see a single Alexandrite. I'd say the drop rates are beyond dismal. In fact, I'd stand a better chance farming Atmas.

As it stands currently, attempting to get Alexandrites from fate grinding is simply an inferior and completely unreliable method.

1 Alexandrite a day via quest (via map) = reliable.

800 mythology per map/alexandrite = reliable.

Fate grinding for alexandrites = unreliable waste of time and effort.

I almost wonder why it's even an option at all when it seems like you chances of actually getting one from a fate are worse than the Zenith/Atma fate grind. Hell I at least would see something after a certain number of fates. Yet so far it seems like I could spend a whole day doing nothing but fates and never see an alexandrite drop. I almost wonder if it's a hoax. Nobody I've talked to has ever gotten one from a fate so far either. To the point where, like me, they just give up doing fates. I just do fates now when I happen to see them up in an area, or if I need to do them as part of the beastman dailies. Otherwise it's just not worth the time when I could actually spend the time speed running brayflox and definitely get an alexandrite map.

And no, I no longer attempt to solo the maps because all I needed was my first loss to the biclops to teach me that lesson. (was a close fight, but still, the hardest encounter I've come across so far) Duoing or more is a garenteed win.. well, unless you have idiots for partners.

[Nekodar]

Fate grinding for alexandrites = unreliable waste of time and effort.

I almost wonder why it's even an option at all when it seems like you chances of actually getting one from a fate are worse than the Zenith/Atma fate grind.

In a FATE party you could simultaneously get lucky with alexandrite drop, work on spiritbonding for the materia you need, and gain GC seals to buy crafting material with to sell on the market board and use the proceeds to buy materia for the infusions.
You could see it as the alexandrite drops is a bonus while doing it for spiritbonding/GC seal farm.

If you only look at FATE farming as something strictly for Alexandrites, and ignore the other possibilities, then yes it sucks hard.

Best zone for this seems to be Northern Thanalan.

[Richiealvian]

A friend of mine has gotten 3 from fates with Curtana Animus, so pretty sure it drops.

[SumoSamurai]

Hey guys,
I just got my Holy Shield Novus today and I received my last alexandrite from a FATE in Northern Thanalan.

When I started the Alexandrite hunt, my Destiny Child Achievement was 2540/3000. Now it's 2870/3000 and I've only been able to get 3 to drop. Basically every 100 fates or so I would get one to drop. Leading more and more to the drop rate being 1% or lower. While this is agonizingly low, there are other ways to achieve alexandrite which make up for the low drop rate.

[Arkista]

there are other ways to achieve alexandrite which make up for the low drop rate.

2.3 Hunts will be great for obtaining Alex faster, But I have a really bad feeling that SE is going to have some kind of lockout on Hunts.

[Decrith]

2.3 Hunts will be great for obtaining Alex faster, But I have a really bad feeling that SE is going to have some kind of lockout on Hunts.

Well, it is called Daily Hunts.

[Vahlnir]

Well, it is called Daily Hunts.

Yeah, even if it's like 1 hunt per day, that's still 2 potential Alexandrite on average which will make a good bit of difference.

[saber_alter]

Well, it is called Daily Hunts.

but what is daily? for all we know we could get a handful of targets a day for this or a single one.

[Arkista]

Well, it is called Daily Hunts.

There is suppose to be a Daily Personal Hunt, But then there are suppose to be other Marks you can do.

Edit here is what I found....
Mob Hunt (aka. Marks)
•"Risky mobs" that can be defeated for points.
•Three ranks available: S, A, and B.
•You can hunt these marks any time you want to earn points.
•One monster (Rank B was used as an example but possibly A and S rank as well) will be designated by your Grand Company weekly. Defeating the designated mark will earn you bonus points on top of what you normally get.
•Another designated mark will be assigned daily to each player separately (so not everyone will be hunting the same thing) for bonus points (similar to how daily roulette provide bonus tomes).
•Points can be used to obtain Myth items, as well as alexandrites used for Novus weapons. Mostly though, the rewards will be unique and cannot be obtained elsewhere.
•Difficulty ranges from just barely solo-able with full ilvl90 gear to needing a chocobo companion to things that will require a group of people to beat. So if you run into a hard one you may need to shout for help.

I'm worried there is going to be a lockout to prevent me from spamming Hunts. Drops rate from fates suck, Spamming Bray sucks, Quest isn't so bad but only 1 a day. I hope Hunts don't have any lockout, meaning we can kill as many Marks as we want outside daily/weekly GC Marks and get Alex faster.