Could anybody be so kind fo explain all Novus quest?

[Alise]

Well, since I haven't received my last 3 books yet, I can't check the quest by myself. But I want to be able to calculate my time ahead, so if anybody could help, could you explain all the process of Novus quest?

How to get scroll? how to get Alexandrite? what are the daily cap? Estimate drop rate? How long time would it require averagely?

[Alenore]

As for the quest...

- Speak to Jalzahn
- Speak to Mutamix
- Speak to Hubairtin (npc next to Mutamix)
- Buy 3 Enchanted Ink from Auriana (500 Myth each)
- Give them to Hubairtin
- Choose the Sphere Scroll corresponding to your weapon
- Speak to Jalzahn

Now begins the Alexandrite farm!
You need Alexandrite to infuse materias on your Sphere Scroll.
You can get them :
- With a daily quest rewarding a Mysterious Map, which gives an Alexandrite at the end,
- By running FATEs, just like you'd get Atmas. Estimated drop rate is hard to say, since it's been released for 1 day now,
- By buying Mysterious Maps for 800 myth.


You use these Alexandrite to infuse your Sphere Scroll with materias, as I said :
- It starts with Materia I. Currently, I don't think we know when you'll need grade II, and if you'll ever need grade III.
- The chance of success decrease with the number of infusion. Someone had only 96% chance of success after 5 times.
- If the infusion fails, you don't lose your alexandrite.
- The stats you'll infuse on the Sphere Scroll will be the stats on your Novus. Strength/Vitality/Mind/Intelligence aren't dependent on materia, but are set by the iLevel. You can't change them.

[krazyrs]

materia meld 1 and 2 were 100% for me
at meld 3 it dropped to 80% and at meld 4 60%
now i require a tier2 materia for meld 5 and hoping its not going to drop to 40%

using battledance materia for parry at the moment

edit:
friend got a 5th alex working on parry like me
tier2 went back to 100% for meld 5

[Kenji1134]

Once your friend added the grade 2, does the scroll now require all grade 2's?
If so, then eventually you will need to infuse ~11 grade 4's, some with a 60% chance, which will cost you... yeah lets not go there.

[Alise]

THank a lot for answer.

-Little question about Daily Quest. Is this Roulette? Beast tribe? or something else?
-Does the reward show in the list or that you have to keep doing to hope it shows up?
-Does it limit how many Alexandrite you can get per day? or how many cap infused per day?

[Kitkat]

My question is this, for anyone far enough in thus far and can confirm:

Does the higher tiers give more points to the 75, or is it just +1 per materia infused still?

[Kaze3434]

there is a thread in the general section detailing all found info. better to use that than this one.

[krazyrs]

My question is this, for anyone far enough in thus far and can confirm:

Does the higher tiers give more points to the 75, or is it just +1 per materia infused still?

teir2 materia gave +1 stat point

[VaShawn]

Can I stack mysterious maps?

[Duuude007]

Once your friend added the grade 2, does the scroll now require all grade 2's?
If so, then eventually you will need to infuse ~11 grade 4's, some with a 60% chance, which will cost you... yeah lets not go there.

Any stat you are just beginning will be grade I and 100% success. Every time you are asked for the next grade up, it will reset to 100% again. We assume the final melds must be Grade IV.
NOTE: the more types of stats you add, the fewer overall Grade IV you will be forced to meld. Although the stat balance may hurt you in the long run.

-Little question about Daily Quest. Is this Roulette? Beast tribe? or something else?

After you get your first Sphere Scroll, a new npc near Jalzahn will send you to Revanant's Toll, which will be where you do your daily quest. The only task to complete this daily is to complete an Expert Roulette.

-Does the reward show in the list or that you have to keep doing to hope it shows up?

You always get 1 map per daily. You always get 1 alexandrite per successful map. (some spawns are tough to solo, bring a friend)

-Does it limit how many Alexandrite you can get per day? or how many cap infused per day?

No limit to how many, but if you want lots reliably, the best process would be tedious.
Example: Daily +Brayflox HM Speed runs for 8 hours at a reliable pace of 5 minutes per run, you would acheive 7 maps in that time.
Do that once every day, you would have your Novus in under 11 days.

My question is this, for anyone far enough in thus far and can confirm:

Does the higher tiers give more points to the 75, or is it just +1 per materia infused still?

1 materia = 1 stat point = 1 infusion, regardless of grade. weapon will take 75 alexandrites to complete.

Can I stack mysterious maps?

You can have 1 deciphered map and 1 undeciphered map on you at any time.
If you need to have extra, you can also put them 1 per retainer (undeciphered only).
So 6 max, with paid retainers.