Okay I have been looking around trying to find a clear answer about this and I can't seem to find it. I am going through the relic quests for my BLM for glamour and I am part way through atma to animus, but I was looking at the novus process and am a bit confused.

From what I am reading, there seems to be a few ways I can go about this and I also read that I can change the stats at a later date on the nexus weapon.

So what I want to know is, what is the MINIMUM amount of gil I can spend on this assuming I don't want to go through the trouble to SB? And how exactly would that work? Would I just use lower grade materia only for this, or is that even possible?

I don't really care about stats as I am only doing this for glamour anyway. (Though please tell me if what I read was wrong about the being able to reroll the stats. XD)

I would love to not spend a whole lot of time and gil on this particular step if it isn't necessary. I thank you for your time.