Am I missing something about Novus?

[MasamuneBranford]

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[Rufalus]

This logic scares me. What is the point in spending any time and effort at all then? Just leave it as Animus, put it in your retainer and call it a day. You're only wasting your own time and gil if you're not upgrading it correctly. It's not that difficult to do hunts for myth/alexandrites and SB gear for the proper materia ya know. At least do 25/25/25 like the OP mentioned, 4 stats is just butchering it.

My novus weapon isn't butchered, it's an upgrade over animus no matter how you customise it. There is no correct way. All the 4 stats I chose do something beneficial and aren't useless. When you look at the hardcore people who do all the math, they tell you that these secondary stats make very very little difference anyway, and it's the core stats that you cannot customise that matter far more, especially weapon damage.

[Makado]

This logic scares me. What is the point in spending any time and effort at all then? Just leave it as Animus, put it in your retainer and call it a day. You're only wasting your own time and gil if you're not upgrading it correctly. It's not that difficult to do hunts for myth/alexandrites and SB gear for the proper materia ya know. At least do 25/25/25 like the OP mentioned, 4 stats is just butchering it.

Upgrading it correctly? That made me lol.

[JustaBard]

After spending so much time grinding atma, finishing the animus' books, and gathering 75 alexs why wouldn't you want your weapon to be the best it can be? Besides, it's not like there is so much content that you can't take your time to spiritbond as much as you need to. I didn't waste any $$ on my novus, but only the one I made spiritbonding.

That's how I look at it. I'm very happy with my 44 crit / 31 det novus bow.

Edit: I also have the high allagan bow.

[HorrorStory]

I agree. The cost-to-usefulness ratio for a 44/31 Novus is not much better than a build with 3 or 4 minor stats. You would only make a 44/31 if min-maxing was your goal. Then again, if you are a min-maxer, why would you build a Novus to begin with?

[Kamifubuki-Yoakesetsuri]

Weapon Damage / Weapon Magic Damage Trumps everything else when it come to BiS. Secondary stats are essentially useless when choosing two weapons that aren't at equal strength in Magic Damage/ Damage.

[MasamuneBranford]

Weapon Damage / Weapon Magic Damage Trumps everything else when it come to BiS. Secondary stats are essentially useless when choosing two weapons that aren't at equal strength in Magic Damage/ Damage.

Yep. Exactly what I'm saying. For BLM - spending 10M as opposed to 300k is going to boost your dmg by a mere 1 to 2 dps (where blms are dealing 400+dps). The difference is completely immaterial. Who is to say you won't be able to boost the stats you neglected in a future update? Nobody really knows how it works...but it won't be the end of the world if you fall behind 1-2 dps this round. There's no way your decision on the novus can impact you more than it currently does in the future.

[Tolmos]

I think the point of Novus isn't being missed, just lost- it's for Min/Maxers. There are players who have the time and want something massive to work towards, something that most of us common plebeians would/could never go for. But, at the same time, the developers don't want that difference to be so massive that it alienates said plebeians. This is where things like the Novus come in. It gives the hardest of the hardcores something to work towards that is part vanity, part effectiveness.

Combine this with the fact that the relic is meant to be infinitely upgradeable, the second purpose to doing this would be to allow yourself the ability to upgrade in the future. I don't think you could skip Novus and go straight to the next upgrade, so you'd not get Novus so much because you want it for now, but because you might want the future upgrades later.

Either way, I have no intention of going for Novus atm and completely support its existence, despite that.

[Staris]

because healer weapons with accuracy

[Tolmos]

because healer weapons with accuracy

You likely jest, but I spend 95% of my time running content that doesn't require my character's full attention or ability, so I just cleric stance for most of it just being a regular ol' DPS. I wouldn't shed a tear of my healer weap had some accuracy on it for that. It would be a nerf when I really need to heal all out, but that's like 5% of my time lol.