The Futre of the Zodiac weapons!

[Estellios]

Novus is casual because you can complete them at your own leisure and not have to worry about beating your head against a difficulty wall.

Let me just take 6 months to beat my head against a grinding wall daily then.

They aren't casual.

[DenariusJay]

Proto Novus - defeat Garuda in howling eye extreme 100 times, defeat titan in the navel extreme 500 times,defeat ifrit in bowl of embers extreme 1000 times, with a weathers level 1 weapon defeat 10,000 monsters. Obtain 20 of atma of the whorl, striking tree, navel, howling eye & bowl of embers (1% drop rate) please look forward to it!

I wish you were joking, but knowing the trends of this game, your probably not that far off... oh and rest assured somehow fates will be involved. Gotta have dem fates. /sigh

[Yamimarik]

Novus is casual because you can complete them at your own leisure and not have to worry about beating your head against a difficulty wall.

It's not like we're talking SCoB or Coils difficulty here... and who every officially stated Relic is "casual"... still not sure about why this term is used the way it is here. Any who, so far interesting ideas, perspectives and opinions. Keep'em coming!

[Seiryuukishi]

Materia needs to be taken out of the equation period. It's just an excuse for another gil sink that is neither wanted nor needed. After I found out how much is was going to run me on average to get Gae Bolg to novus I stopped. At any rate I'd say a good plan IMHO would be to reintroduce books but make them the current tier of tomestone currency at say 400 a pop. However you have to fight one of the original HM primals along with a gander of dungeons related to say that primal's element or area of influence. You get clear stamps for every chapter. After that increase the clears of said primal and the dungeons could change to varying amounts or difficulty or both. Once you reach the final chapter you get a choice (for casuals and hardcore alike) clear an EX version of the primal or spend 800 of the current tomestone to finalize the book. that way no one can say anyone got off scot free. When you buy a book of said stat it is there and you continue at your leisure.

[Taban]

My guess is it will involve hunts. We've seen fates, leves (a little), dungeons, myth, really hunts is the only game system not used by the relic so far. I wouldn't be surprised if they tossed Ramuh extreme in there either since not many people have been doing that.

[Rubieus]

Well they already confirmed FATES will be part of the next one. But I suppose if I was designing this next stage. This is how I would do it.
Start Novus Quest: Asked to try out weapon against "the strongest" creatures.
Quest 1: Fight any/all Extreme Primals until event occurs: Event Log: Your Novus Weapon has broken. (Durability turns to 0) This is not affected by real durability Event is random: 15% give or take, cannot repair. Quest Ends.

Quest 2: Obtain rare ore from fates similar to alexandrite use new "Cracked" Novus; has 1/2 stats but grants wielder bonus to SB.. Need X, 15% drop rate give or take. (Should take about 1000 fates or so,) Quest Ends.

Quest 3: Use Ore with Cracked Novus to receive "Mended" Novus: (Mended Novus is 100% stats + SB), Search all dungeons to find lost item (in my mind its a spell book for imbuing magic into crafting) hidden item is random for each player. (You won't know where it's at until you find it in the dungeon) End Quest

Quest 4: Have "Mended" Novus treated with magic imbueing, player chooses new abilities similar to Sphere Scroll, New abilities start at 0% enhancement such as Increased "Jump" damage 0%, sprint speed 0%, Maximum TP+ 0%, Quest Ends when 3 stats are chosen. (Gain 3 new stats in total) Spiritbind progress = New Stat progress, when Novus is fully SB, it gains a new ability, return to choose new stat (up to 3) and SB again. Quest Ends once 3 stats are chosen.

Quest 5: You have obtained Spiritus Weapon.

[Morningstar1337]

I have an idea for the New Relics:

Lux Weapons:
These weapons work like the Novus, allowing you to customize your stats, however the base stats will be that of the Novus so you only have 13 "points" to allocate this time

However these "points" are earned by getting 13 Tokens per stat (called Zodiac spheres) There is one token per Zodiac sign (Ophiuchus included) with the icon being a sphere with the respective symbol on it and in the color of the respective atma crystal (Blue for Pisces, purple for Gemini, Green for Sagittarius etc) With Ophiuchus being Magenta-ish.

Earning the spheres however will be based on RNG, but with a few twists:

• You can Trade Atma crystals for the spheres
• There will be a repeatable quest that will require you to do the appropriate content. completing that will get you a random sphere.You will not get the same sphere twice until you turn in a complete set
• And they will drop from FATEs, Dungeons, Raids, Guildhests, Levequests, Elite Marks (however B Ranks are excluded unless it's the weekly mark) and EX Primals. based on sign
  • Aries: FATEs
  • Taurus: Guidlhests
  • Gemini: pre-Level 50 Dungeons
  • Cancer: Hunts
  • Leo: Non-Extreme Trials
  • Virgo: Spiritbonding
  • Libra: Daily Beastmen Quests
  • Scorpion: Hunts
  • Ophiuchus: Extreme Trials
  • Sagittarius: Level 50 Dungeons (Raids included)
  • Capricorn: Levequests
  • Aquarius: Treasure Maps
  • Pisces: Daily Roulettes

Once you have a set of Spheres you can turn them in to an Astrologer NPC to increase a stat of you choice, by placing the spheres inside a clock item called the "Astral Chronometer". Which will have 13 zones, Foe every set of spheres you complete, a zone will glow and once all 13 zones are glowing you can turn it in along with your Novus to get a new weapon: the <insert Relic name here> Lux.


Oh and to prevent people from spamming content until they have 13 of a specific sphere, you cannot get more than one of a certain sphere.


Yes I know it isn't perfect.

[Altijacek]

I want next step to be a quest like the original one, and have it involve different things: winning 10 frontline or wolves den matches, defeating the new dungeon (which has to be the most difficult yet), doing a new trial, a drop from CT2, and maybe a bit of crafting. The last part can involve grinding for soldiery.

[Nalien]

Make the final quest involve the Ascians.

"What, you've been doing the Trials of the Zodiacs and you didn't realize that our God is Zodiark? Thanks for getting our ultimate weapons for us! Mwuhahahahaha!"

Followed by the Ascians winning and destroying Eorzea, ready for 3.0.

[myahele]

It can't involve XM primals since folks have already done those.

I hope it involves new ddungeons and or trial monsters. Are they really gonna involve FATEs?