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Thank you. Coming from someone whose opinion I respect greatly, that makes me feel a lot better.

I think what I'll do then is see how the grind goes, but stop before it reaches the point where I just stop enjoying it. Maybe I'll luck out on some IVs in the first few hours, you never know.

Do also note that if you make the weapon, then pick up a IV later on, you can alter the stats point by point at any time afterward by talking to the guy in N. Shroud with the materia and an alexandrite.

The rest of the relic?

The zodiac step cost me about 2m gil, which at the time was about 2/3 of my total gil.

Put it this way... the difference between using tier IV materia and not using tier IV materia is the difference between the novus costing 2m and 20m. And that's not even an exaggeration. I did the math. Tier IV materia is ridiculous.

I would definitely not consider balancing your relic "taking the cheap way out" although it does happen to save you a lot of money. If there were a measurable benefit to it that could not be offset by gear choices or food, I would spend the money. But simply put, there is no measurable benefit to spending all that gil to min/max, unless you are just OCD and like having 2 stats as high as you can get them, or just happen to like wearing gear or eating food that gives accuracy. But, you are not doing it "wrong" by splitting your relic into 3 stats. It brings into the idea of versatility vs. extremes.

At some point, paying 600k for 1/3 of one point of dex, which equals 1/27 of one point of bard damage is far less valuable to me than paying 300 gil for 1 point of accuracy. Like it or not, there is an accuracy cap for final coil, and you don't want to leave yourself in a position where the only way you don't miss is if your food buff is up. You will find yourself at the end of the battle, food buff runs out, and suddenly you drop from 400 to 260 just like that. I'd much rather lose crit or det if my food buff drops than the accuracy needed to hit 100%. Best to supplement that accuracy in the relic. I prefer a balanced approach. It allows me to be versatile with my gear choices.

There are options out there to make up every point of crit or det with gear. Look at the difference between the WoD coat and the Kirimu Coat. Kirimu coat has accuracy, WoD coat does not. People think that crit and det are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if you don't have the acc to hit what you are aiming at, all the crit and det in the world won't mean a thing. Min/Max relic with crit/det, and wear the WoD coat... where are you getting accuracy from? Your pants? Your food? I hope not. Fact is, you can hit BiS in a number of ways, and you don't have to spend 20 million gil to do it.

With gear adjustments and food adjustments, you can absolutely offset any amount of damage you would lose on your relic, and save your self 20 million gil.

Any one who says otherwise is just trying to justify the fact that they wasted a lot of money on their relic and don't want to admit it. Or defending someone that did. Pretty much trying to justify a bad purchase. Imo.

Edited, Mar 9th 2015 11:56am by Valkayree