How are you handling your Novus upgrade?

[omfgwtf]

honestly I think this was the final nail in the coffin for me guys.. good luck.. as a pld I already have the exact stats on my animus as is... the quest is to progress to make them more powerful.. the fact that I have to farm 800 fucking myth or get a 1% drop to apply a piece of material for a stat I already have IS FUCKING DUMB. honestly the whole dev team and Yoshida for that matter should be looking for work at mcdonalds

[AngelicSence]

honestly I think this was the final nail in the coffin for me guys.. good luck.. as a pld I already have the exact stats on my animus as is... the quest is to progress to make them more powerful.. the fact that I have to farm 800 fucking myth or get a 1% drop to apply a piece of material for a stat I already have IS FUCKING DUMB. honestly the whole dev team and Yoshida for that matter should be looking for work at mcdonalds

Yup... This is definitely not for us who play the game limited time.
But, here is the thing... Zodiac weapon will be always "2nd" powerful weapon. You don't really have to farm it like crazy.. Just spend 40 min or so upgrading your animus to novus slowly. In 4 or 6 month.. you will have your novus. In fact, current strongest weapon is turn 9 coil -- high allagan, and the best weapon comes from raids and not the quest. Also remember atma farming, people said it's impossible.. But they got it. How about animus.. 13k myth?? But.. People geared with animus. Despite all the hate, at the end of the day... People just want to show off with new gear and they want to get it asap.. Just, don't try to get it asap when in few months many people would have it this is mental challenge.

[Yumi_umi]

You can't stack a main stat apart from piety.

My life is over.
lol

[Yumi_umi]

My life is over.
lol

My " novus is the best thing evar" life

[Kule]

If we can only have two seconday stats i'll go det/pie for my thyrus but if it's more i'll go det/pie/crit or det/pie/spell speed. Not sure which yet or if it's even possible.

[RunaRugar]

WHM > DET/CRIT

[sheepysheepy]

mm i'd say theres plenty of people that dont do secondcoil and wont do for a while, and they'll need pie on it to offset the daystars lack of it.
anyone getting high allagan stuff with pie on it shouldn't be too worried about trying something else like det/crit

[Ghishlain]

Thyrus into ACC / Crit because

(1) I like being a unique snow flake!
(2) I'm a crit fanatic (even on WHM)
(3) I want to hit things!
(4) My FC trusts me enough to know even if I'm not using an optimized equipment build, I can overcome those deficiencies by adapting my skill set to it. They know I know how to optimize for WHM and would still throw that out the window anyway because I can make my style work with their game plan.

[AngelicSence]

I understand many people would take pie.
But, how about spell speed. I mean, if we get enought healing speed, we could cast cure for 1.8 sec or less. That's pretty big I think. What do y'all say..

[Tranquil]

But, how about spell speed. I mean, if we get enought healing speed, we could cast cure for 1.8 sec or less. That's pretty big I think. What do y'all say..

Well, SPSP is not bad for WHMs. However, DET+PIE outshine it for this reason: scripted fights.

Sure, SPSP has gains that are not RNG-reliant (Crit), but because healers should not be healing on cooldown anyway, there is no real point in maximizing SPSP. You know when to cast that heal. You know when this and that happen. If something goes wrong beyond that - that SPSP wouldn't have (likely) helped you anyway.

I do think SPSP should be made a more interesting stat somehow and it could be what WHMs have synergy with (kind of like SCHs have good crit-synergy), but as it stands, in my opinion DET+PIE = king. It's not like it makes or breaks you though (and the High Allagan is still BiS regardless of it having SPSP because of that weapon damage).