Discuss new relic upgrade

[Kiara1]

If I got this right, we do stuff like dungeons and when we get enough soul thingies we will be able to upgrade it?

I love it if that is how it works.

We can use this thread to discuss and tell eachother what we have found out about the upgrade.

I did roulette trial and got Garuda HM, seems everyone else had the same thought so we were 8 ppl all in our shiny ilvl 105+ gear and beat Garuda so faast haha

When we beat her I got the text "Thyrus Novus emits a gentle light." so it is working.
I assume harder trials give more to the progress, it would be a way for older players to do EX trials again.

Now I need to go so I can't try doing a dungeon but please share anything you've figured out here!

[subteraneanbird]

I actually for awhile said that I thought atma should have involved spiritbond. Obv something like 50-100% for one atma. Time consuming (like they wanted), non-random (like we wanted) and overall a neat concept. Sad it wasn't applied to atma (0/12 oops...) but glad to see it implemented now.

I won't be working on it but good luck to all of you who are. If the difficulty of the encounter factors in, I imagine t4 will once again become a popular destination.

[ruskie]

This already sounds more fun than any of the proivous steps(with the exception of the first relic step with the primals). Anyone did any EXs yet? How is it on original and mog, levi, ramuh ex?

[ruskie]

Hmmm to bad I won't be able to help out healing in drtrials then anymore as I'm only taking my bow anywhere higher than zenith. Atleast not until atma drops like candies and I don't need to do insane infusions for novus.

[PArcher]

Hmm, wonder if doing Coil2 with your Novus will be a good idea...

[meciuPL]

Hmm, wonder if doing Coil2 with your Novus will be a good idea...

Well, Novus is my BiS right now so...

EDIT: PPL already did a t6 and got "Blinding light" "upgrade".

EDIT 2: "Newborn star" status from finishing ST

[Alexia89]

Syrcus Tower makes Novus "shine with the light of a Newborn Star".

So seems Syrcus grind is the best immediate option.

So far i have seen:

Feeble<Gentle<Brilliant<Blinding<Newborn Star.

Feeble from Fates, and some Trials.
Gentle from some Trials.
Brilliant from Expert Roulette.
Blinding confirmed in T6 & T7.
Newborn Star in ST.

[Rezzo]

Syrcus Tower makes Novus "shine with the light of a Newborn Star".

So seems Syrcus grind is the best immediate option.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but after two runs of ST, (one in progress and one from the beginning), I am getting "...emits a blinding light!" and nothing about a Newborn Star. Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

EDIT: To complicate matters even further, some people in my part did get Newborn Star, while others, like me, got Blinding light.

EDIT 2: Just completed ST for the third time, full run, got "Blinding Light" again.

EDIT 3: Completed ST for the fourth time today, this time in progress starting at Amon. Blinding Light again.

[Unmitigated]

I think it's duration based- the longer it takes for ST the brighter notification you get, may be wrong though

[Steady]

I think it's duration based- the longer it takes for ST the brighter notification you get, may be wrong though

Maybe it's based on length of time in a party... someone would need to test of HUNTs actually provide anything, or if Failing in a primal that would normally take 9 minutes to clear rewards anything more for taking 60 minutes through fails. Or if maybe they decided that a set amount of time = each dungeon, and clearing them faster/slower would simply mean more gains/min.

I got the most from doing Main Scenario... but haven't seen New Star brightness yet.