(02-02-2015, 09:20 AM)Steel Wolf Wrote: Advice on prepping for an Atma/Novus/Whatever weapon for my pending DRK
I think I can help with this.
First off, the oil you use to bump up your freshly created relic to the next level is bought with soldiery. If you have some extra that isn't needed anyway, snatch one up and bank it.
Secondly, You can collect an extra set of Atma from FATEs, I'd recommend it if you have some free time so that you can just skip that phase when you get to it later.
Once the Alexandrite daily is unlocked, it is unlocked forever. Keep nabbing it every day before you do your Expert roulette (which you'll need to unlock, of course, but I'm sure you'll be able to find plenty of people to help with that
) and do the maps you get from it, and you should have a ready stockpile of them for your DRK weapon. Then it's just a (costly) matter of having the 75+ materia for all the melds.There's a bit more (like buying bombard cores ahead of time with your GC seals and banking them), but that covers the first couple steps nicely. Really, I think you can do prep-work for all of the phases save for the Light-gathering one and the initial quest chain (since the primals won't drop the item you need unless you're on the quest for it).
So many parentheses.
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