Is Novus really worth it?

[Hik0]

if ppl wanna det/crit, and spend 10mil for it, it's their loss; i dont think i even had to use IIIs for my quad.
rank 1-2 materias are cheap, or super easy to SB yourself, so it doesn't need to cost you more than you want to spend, and the difference is so minimal anyway.

maybe a server thing but TIII cost less than TII here since people focus more on SBing for TIV but keep getting TIIIs.