-Have a full animus weapon
-Do the quest Celestial Radiance. You will need 1500 myth tomes,
-Start the quest Star Light, Star Bright. Before you warp to North Shroud to continue the quest, buy the scroll for your weapon for the 3 ink you have. Clicking my scroll asked me to confirm paying "7879 Bottles" of the ink, but I clicked ok and it took my 3.
-Do the quest One Man's Trash, which unlocks a daily quest Morbid Motivation. The daily quest gets you a Mysterious Map.
-Mysterious Maps are unique, so you can only hold one at a time, you can also buy them for 800 myth tomes. They work the same way as gathered up timeworn maps, and drop one Alexandrite to the person who spawned the chest. The difficulty is between a Boarskin and a Peisteskin map; I took about 3 minutes take mine out as a ilvl98 BLM with choco out, there's a 5 minute limit.
-Use your scroll and use the Alexandrite and appropriate materia. It appears that you can do a tier I materia with 1 alexandrite, I assume it takes 3 for a tier III, etc. There is a chance of fail and losing both.
-After you have maxed out the scroll, you talk to the guy in North Shroud to finish it, which is weeks away for anyone.
Some Tips:
-Don't buy materia now, it's jacked up in price horribly and will drop sharply in a week.
-Spiritbond your own materia. Get a cluster of level 49 rings and wear one when you do your normal stuff. Once it spiritbonds, replace it with another. You will get the materia you want faster than you will get the Alexandrite to use it.
Edited, Jun 5th 2014 9:45pm by stouter
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Worth pointing out, having just a Holy Shield animus doesn't seem to be enough to get started with Celestial Radiance (even though it did count for getting the achievement for having an "animus weapon"). Either Curtana is needed, or both are, because Jalzahn still has that ugly red marker above his head with the animus shield equipped for me.
Fynlar wrote:
Worth pointing out, having just a Holy Shield animus doesn't seem to be enough to get started with Celestial Radiance (even though it did count for getting the achievement for having an "animus weapon"). Either Curtana is needed, or both are, because Jalzahn still has that ugly red marker above his head with the animus shield equipped for me.
I can confirm that you need both.
Fynlar wrote:
Worth pointing out, having just a Holy Shield animus doesn't seem to be enough to get started with Celestial Radiance (even though it did count for getting the achievement for having an "animus weapon"). Either Curtana is needed, or both are, because Jalzahn still has that ugly red marker above his head with the animus shield equipped for me.
Yes I am in the same boat. Seems we need the sword as well.
Funny how someone named manufacture boss had bought up ALL of the IV materia in the 15 seconds between when the servers became active and when I logged on. I hope he tanks.
What I did yesterday... Noticed that II elemental materias were selling for 160 - 300 gil each, while savage aim, battledance, etc were selling for 16k - 20k. Spend 800 - 1500 gil for a pretty decent shot at 16-20k? Materia lotto. Yes please. Did the same with III materia's.
Other than that I sat for 3 hours doing laundry / dishes / etc while idling my vita in East Shroud waiting for Enemy of my Enemy FATE to pop to complete my 4th book. I just need 40 mobs and I'm gtg there, and I have my 1500 myth ready to buy the fifth. Just about halfway there.
Edited, Jun 6th 2014 8:32am by Valkayree
stouter wrote:
-Use your scroll and use the Alexandrite and appropriate materia. It appears that you can do a tier I materia with 1 alexandrite, I assume it takes 3 for a tier III, etc. There is a chance of fail and losing both.
You do not lose the Alexandrite on a failed meld/infusion. Only the Materia.
Also, you are not required to complete your map on the class you are working on the Sphere Scroll for. If you're undertaking Stardust Rod Novus and want the safety net of using Titan-Egi on Summoner go for it -- the Alexandrite is guaranteed no matter what job you clear it as.
One thing I'm curious about... from the picture included in SE's patch notes, it looks like the scroll upgrades one stat that is already on the weapon while replacing the other with a different secondary stat. Thinking about my Curtana... it already has the two stats I most want, ACC and Parry. I would hate to lose either one of those. Though I guess if you could add ACC on to the shield to help mitigate the loss on the sword while boosting Parry on both, it might not be quite so painful. I guess we'll see!
It keeps no secondary stats with the exception of the built-in accuracy on healing weapons.
If you go for a Novus you have to start from scratch. That means adding materia and literally building the weapon how you like. If you want Parry and Accuracy, then you need to add those materia until you're capped and/or satisfied.
You aren't adding or subtracting stats from what's already there. Your Novus will literally look like:
i110.
STR
VIT
And that's it. You have to start building your secondary stats from the beginning.
Edited, Jun 6th 2014 3:27pm by Viertel
If you go for a Novus you have to start from scratch. That means adding materia and literally building the weapon how you like. If you want Parry and Accuracy, then you need to add those materia until you're capped and/or satisfied.
You aren't adding or subtracting stats from what's already there. Your Novus will literally look like:
i110.
STR
VIT
And that's it. You have to start building your secondary stats from the beginning.
Edited, Jun 6th 2014 3:27pm by Viertel
Viertel wrote:
It keeps no secondary stats with the exception of the built-in accuracy on healing weapons.
If you go for a Novus you have to start from scratch. That means adding materia and literally building the weapon how you like. If you want Parry and Accuracy, then you need to add those materia until you're capped and/or satisfied.
You aren't adding or subtracting stats from what's already there. Your Novus will literally look like:
i110.
STR
VIT
And that's it. You have to start building your secondary stats from the beginning.
Edited, Jun 6th 2014 3:27pm by Viertel
If you go for a Novus you have to start from scratch. That means adding materia and literally building the weapon how you like. If you want Parry and Accuracy, then you need to add those materia until you're capped and/or satisfied.
You aren't adding or subtracting stats from what's already there. Your Novus will literally look like:
i110.
STR
VIT
And that's it. You have to start building your secondary stats from the beginning.
Edited, Jun 6th 2014 3:27pm by Viertel
Right. I actually *just* got to this point in the questline today and was pleasantly surprised to see how it works. Basically on the Curtana you can infuse material into any stat (including stats you wouldn't normally see on a sword like spell speed and piety). Each stat has a cap on how many points you can give it. Accuracy and Parry both cap at 33 on the Curtana (some don't cap that high, such as determination which caps at 22). There is also a total cap to the number of points you can allocate, which is 59 for the Curtana, so you can't cap both ACC and Parry, you have to choose.
What makes this SUPER nice is that there is also a scroll for the Holy Shield that works the same way, albeit with lower caps. Either way it means I can finally ditch the skill speed on it and replace it with something more desirable.
I think this system look extremely interesting right now (that may change as I dive in to it). How you allocate your novus points could influence which pieces are BiS in other slots. I also think what seems like a good idea *now* might not seem like a great idea later ("Well, I'm at the ACC cap right now already, so no sense putting more points there"... and then along comes content with higher ACC requirements), though that is probably much farther down the road. I hope it doesn't devolve into "this is the best way to do it and everyone must have it this way". What to do, what to do...
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