Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[Donjo]

do i live in a different world or why was i tought that 44 + 31 equals 75...?

Let me do the Math for you. Let's take two i110 weapons that currently have Determination.

The Glanzfaust: 44 Accuracy and 22 Determination. 44 + 22 = 66.
The Book of Spades: 31 Crit Rate and 31 Determination. 31 + 31 = 62.

66? 62? What? Don't we have 75 points to meld? Let's look at a couple of other weapons.

The Laevateinn: 44 Accuracy and 31 Spell Speed. 44 + 31 = 75.
The Rosenbogen: 31 Crit Rate and 44 Skill Speed. 31 + 44 = 75.

Ah, that's better. So, why do these weapons without Determination add up to 75 and the weapons with Determination add up to something lower? Because Determination has a higher weight than other stats. i110 weapons have a cap of 75 "points" of secondary stats. Crit Rate, Accuracy, and Spell/Skill Speed have the same weight. They each cost one "point" out of our 75. It can be surmised, therefore, that Determination costs more than one point. Let's think of it this way.

The Glanzfaust has 44 accuracy. Subtract that from 75 and we have 31 points left. The only other stat is Determination, so it can be seen that the remaining 31 "points" are in Determination. However, the stat says 22. This is because Determination costs more than one point. Let's discover just how much it costs.

Divide the 31 points assigned to Determination by the 22 it becomes and we get 1.409. Let's round this up to 1.41.

We can additionally test the Book of Spades. 75 "points" minus the 31 Crit we have is 44 points. 44 points assigned to Determination divided by the 31 we end up with is 1.419. Quite similar to our number from the Glanzfaust, yes? Let's take a mid-range out of both of these and declare the weight of Determination as being about 1.415, give or take a step or two. The actual number is probably more precise, but this will do for our simple calculations.

This means that every point of Determination on your piece of gear costs 1.415 points out of the amount of "points" allocated to that piece's secondary stats. Let's redo our math with these weights in mind.

The Glanzfaust: 44 x 1.0 = 44 Accuracy and 22 x 1.415 = 31.13 Determination = 75.13. We can round this down to 75.
The Book of Spades: 31 x 1.0 = 31 Crit and 31 x 1.415 = 43.86 Determination = 74.86. We can round this up to 75.

As you can see, these weapons with Determination have 75 secondary points attached to them after all. Now, let's redo the 44 X + 31 Det equation you're disputing, using, say... Crit, as the X.

44 x 1.0 = 44 Crit and 31 x 1.415 = 43.86 Determination = 87.86. We can round this up to 88 if we want. This number is clearly higher than 75, the number I've just proved is the cap for i110 weapons; even those with Determination. Therefore, it will very likely not be the case that we can actually have 44 of a 1:1 ratio stat and 31 Determination at the same time. The weights won't match up with the intended total of 75. Novus Weapons with Determination would be unequivocally better than weapons without it, and I doubt SE is stupid enough to let this happen.

My theory is that infusing 31 "points" of Determination into a weapon will give you 22 of the actual stat at the moment of the Novus upgrade. Alternatively, it would be cool if we were given the choice to go ahead and have 31 Determination and reduce any other stats on the weapon accordingly if we wanted. This higher weight, however, is no excuse to let those who choose Determination infuse fewer materia into their scroll. It would be unfair if some people got their Novus faster than others just because they chose different stats. Everyone has to infuse 75.

[ManweSulimo]

(^)

(EDIT - and by the way I appreciate this analysis)

+10 to SE if they allow the "88 stat points" (31 det, 44 crit) because if this is how it works, then this is the true reward for putting in the grueling hours of effort grinding myth and the lower chances for success with the determination stat. So imo 31 det, 33 pie, 11 ss (by your math 44 + 44 + 11 = 99 stat points) for the BiS thyrus novus.

SE I will be so happy with you if this is the case ^^

[Arkista]

My theory is that infusing 31 "points" of Determination into a weapon will give you 22 of the actual stat at the moment of the Novus upgrade.

Why would Novus have to follow the same pattern as the other ilvl110 weapons? I'm telling you its going to be 31DET cap otherwise it wouldn't say 0/31. If the value was only going to be 22 DET in the final form, then SE would have capped it 0/22, Then a weapon could have been something like 44CRIT, 22DET, 9ACC. I get SE `does a lot of stuff wrong, But I really think if they wanted DET to cap at 22 in the final form they would have put a hard cap of 22 while melding.

[Donjo]

Why would Novus have to follow the same pattern as the other ilvl110 weapons? I'm telling you its going to be 31DET cap otherwise it wouldn't say 0/31. If the value was only going to be 22 DET in the final form, then SE would have capped it 0/22, Then a weapon could have been something like 44CRIT, 22DET, 9ACC. I get SE `does a lot of stuff wrong, But I really think if they wanted DET to cap at 22 in the final form they would have put a hard cap of 22 while melding.

The problem with that is that, either:

1. People who chose Determination get to infuse fewer times to get to the total weight of 75
or
2. Anyone who chooses Determination gets to exceed the 75 point cap.

Either way, there's an imbalance. People either complain about "we need Determination to finish this in a timely fashion and it sucks for my class!" or "our Novus is useless unless we have Determination? WTF SE!"

My equations above showed that 31 can equal 22 and 44 can equal 31. Only time will answer the question of what the stats will do in the final hour.

[Arkista]

snip.

I think you are looking into the value of the stat more than what is actually being applied to the scroll. 31 melds of DET+ 44 melds of CRIT= 75. We will need 75 Alexandrite to complete a novus. I'm not sure how someone would be done faster by doing DET over another stat. It doesn't matter the stat combo 75 melds in total will be needed.

So don't look at it like 1 DET= 1.41, Look at the value the meld adds to the Scroll. There isn't a hidden number behind it when melding, So melding 5 det is going to be 5 points not 7.05.

Also we don't know what the next part of the relic quest is going to be, So the way this could be working as intended.

[Gallus]

Whether it's 22 determination or 31...not gonna make a huge difference honestly, isn't 9 points of determination like one point and a half of a main damange point xD? (Int,Dex, Mnd or STR). I agree with the above poster, they should really allow for things like 44 crit and 31 det for two reasons:

1 - The relic quest is tedious as hell. Might as well keep people happy after doing them.
2 - It would be less confusing.

If people start slotting materia and after they reach 31 det it says 22 det in their weapons people are gonna be confused (and disappointed, not like it takes a couple hours to do this Novus thing xD). But Donjo totally has a point, Det and piety always appear to have more weigh on equipment than the other stats, so it could perfectly be 22 det instead of 31 (though again, in my humble opinion, that would be confusing
Only time will tell who's right. My money is on 31 DET (have faith guys!)

[Arkista]

But Donjo totally has a point, Det and piety always appear to have more weigh on equipment than the other stats, so it could perfectly be 22 det instead of 31 (though again, in my humble opinion, that would be confusing
Only time will tell who's right. My money is on 31 DET (have faith guys!)

Yes they are correct, But I don't think SE would screw it up like that. My thing is, if DET is going to be capped @22 in the final form why allow us to meld 31? Because I know when I finish this, I would be pissed if I lose 9 points, I could have used on another stat.

[Donjo]

Yes they are correct, But I don't think SE would screw it up like that. My thing is, if DET is going to be capped @22 in the final form why allow us to meld 31? Because I know when I finish this, I would be pissed if I lose 9 points, I could have used on another stat.

If my theory is true, I've provided the reason for having to still meld 31 several times: It would be unfair for some people to not have to meld 75 times. It would also be even more confusing if every meld of a weighted stat mysteriously decreased the total number of melds you could do.

[Viore]

It would be unfair for some people to not have to meld 75 times.

i dont get that...and i think Arkista doesnt as well.
where is the disadvantage or better to ask...how should it be possible, that someone has not to meld 75 times? u have to infuse 75 materia with 75 alexandrit. it doesnt even matter what materia. u have to meld 75 times, and there is no way that u can meld less to complete the scroll, or am i missing sth again?

[AlyssaFhey]

If my theory is true, I've provided the reason for having to still meld 31 several times: It would be unfair for some people to not have to meld 75 times. It would also be even more confusing if every meld of a weighted stat mysteriously decreased the total number of melds you could do.

Everyone has to meld 75 times, regardless of the stats you're going for. It's the same work.

Face it, some people will have +31 det and +44 crit because that's what they want.

The fact that IV materia still only gives +1 is evidence of that.