Am I missing something about Novus?

[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.