Relics coming to an end?

[Giantbane]

The fact that A) you need 75 pieces of materia (or more if you keep botching the melds) and B) the only way to get materia is to either gather them yourself, which takes a lot of time (and there's RNG since you can't exactly determine what materia poops out when you convert) or buy materia on the market board where certain kinds have sky high prices.

It's really not that bad, you don't need Tier IV materia to complete the Novus and move on to Nexus. If you absolutely *must* have that Tier IV materia, you can continue to collect/save for it after you've completed your cheap Novus. When you've got enough to make the Relic of your dreams, you can remove the cheap/unwanted stats at any time (and only the unwanted stats, keep what you want on there) and replace them with the Tier IV stuff that you've been saving for. You can do this even after you finish your Nexus.