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[CUTS3R]

My suggestion would simply be to remove the RNG aspect of the melding, and make every meld 100% succesful. That alone would already go a long way to easing up (and make fairer) the Novus step, IMHO.

Yes please...
Loosing 2 DET4 at 96 and 94% when i was doing my Thyrus was infuriating enough to stop me from getting any other relic past Animus, simply because of the Novus stage.

[Clarkamite]

My suggestion would simply be to remove the RNG aspect of the melding, and make every meld 100% succesful. That alone would already go a long way to easing up (and make fairer) the Novus step, IMHO.

This might be a good suggestion, if what you're saying is remove the RNG aspect of melding on the scrolls. I've already completed 2 Novus' (working on second Nexus right now) and I probably won't be doing another so this wouldn't affect me at all but that would reduce costs significantly. On my server I believe it would cost 3.6 million gil to meld out just the Tier 4 of Determination assuming you never break one. So assuring that you'll never break one would go a long way. It probably wouldn't ease the suffering of a lot of those people out there without much gil to lean on but at least they could work towards something and never have to worry about spending time/money on something that ends up just breaking.

[Synestra]

Before one S rank hunt was 200 Mythology and now it's just 50 Soldiery.

B ranks were the main reason why players got flooded with myths, 30myth from enemy that had rather short respawn time and there were multiple zones(bacially you were able to kill them non-stop)so there was almost always one up somwhere. Now that B's dont give tomes anymore SE could boost A and S ranks lil bit as those have alot longer respawn times compared to old B's, currently theres really no reason to do hunts if you are only after tomes and dont need allied seals.

[Velox]

[Mature]

Wil i get diamond dust if I already cleared Shiva ex? Or do I have to do it again?

[Illya]

Keep in mind they do want to retain some level of fair-ness with people who've already done it. Just saying it wouldn't be fair to those who paid full price. Though increasing ways to get alex (Whether it be % increase in Fate drop, or price reductions) would still keep to the fair-ness and making it easier on those that have been left behind or perhaps working on a second / third relic, etc.

I'm not sure what fairness there will be left when everyone already knows that Heavensward will bring a gear reset. The Relic quest will probably start over at the expansion with a new weapon, or possibly use the final stage of the current Relic as it's base. Might as well let latecomers have the damn thing before Heavensward.

[Zerocamus]

This...

Apocalypse (SMN?), Last Resort (SCH?) and Ragnarok (WAR).

I cannot accept Ragnarok as an axe! It should be DRK's since DRK will be using great swords. Apocalypse was also a DRK weapon... which means they won't be getting that again. Last Resort was a DRK ability as well so we know they won't be getting that again as well. =[

I know your pain all to well : (
What is next, alexander as a summer resort ?
Why are you throwing away your past SE (siren, diablos and fenrir also)
To add to the suffering the new relics are realy ugly, i hope they give us the posibility to glamour a precedent step over this abberations.
Lately the art team leaves a lot to desire, look at the crap dreadwyrm equip. I hope in the last tier of crystal tower for something decent.