I see people spending anywhere from 3M to 10M to have one stat at 44 and another at 31.

I play a BLM. I punched into the universally accepted dmg calculator and determined that the best stats to boost for BLM are 44 spell speed and 31 to Det.

However - putting 25 into Crit, 25 into spell speed and 25 into Det gets you 1 to 2 less DPS. Based purely on estimate - I feel that a 25, 25, 25 novus wouldn't cost you much more than 300k.

We are talking 1 to 2 DPS when there are videos of BLMs in turn 8 hitting 400+ dps with procs. So someone is paying 9.7M more gil so that they can gain an extra second of damage every 4 to 5 minutes?

If Novus was BIS then maybe (just maybe) I could see why people would want to spend that type of gil. However - SE has only showed us so far that relic weapons are second tier and the top tier are weapons earned from raid content. Heck - nobody even knows what the stat allocations will look like post-Novus. Stats could get reset again or be thrown for a loop.

If I have this wrong - please correct me. That's the purpose of my post after all.