Zodiac Weapons
Zodiac Weapons are the continuation of of your Relic weapon quest line and if you choose to pursue this, it will take up most of your time.
Relic Weapons: Relic –> Zenith
Zodiac Weapons: Atma –> Animus –> Novus –> Nexus –> Zodiac Braves
You can start the Zodiac weapon quest line by speaking to Gerolt in North Shroud (X 30,Y 20) and starting the quest Up in Arms.
You need to have your Zenith Relic Weapon equipped when you speak to Gerolt to receive the quest.
From here you will need to grind fates in 12 different regions to receive Atma's. The following are the regions and Atma associated with it.
Once you have all 12 Atma returned to Jalzahn and turn in everything.
To move to Animus you will have to talk with Jalzahn again, from here he will tell you you mush complete the same feats of the Zodiac braves to soul energy. You will be able to buy these books from G'jusana in Revenant's Toll (22x,7y) for 500 Soldiery Tomes.
You must complete 9 books with each book containing the following to do.
Complete the quests Celestial Radiance and Star Light, Star Bright. You will need to purchase 3 Superior Enchanted Ink at the cost of 250 Soldiery Tomestones each (750 total) from Auriana. Players will then give the 3 inks to Hubairtin in Central Thanalan (x23,y13) for a Sphere Scroll.
You will need to Infuse the Sphere Scroll 75 times to complete the it.
Each infusion requires 2 items: Materia and Alexandrite. You can obtain Alexandrites by completing FATEs with animus weapons equipped (similar to Atma farming). You can also obtain alexandrites with Mysterious Maps. You can buy mysterious maps by purchasing them with 400 Soldiery Tomestones each from Auriana. You can also acquire them by completing the quest Morbid Motivation that asks you to complete Expert Duty Roulette. Quest resets daily and each completion awards the you with one Mysterious Map.
Melding Materia
To infuse and upgrade the weapon's stats, players will use alexandrites as the catalyst to meld materia. Each successful meld infuses the stat of materia into the scroll, granting the it 1 point in the corresponding stat. Higher tier of materia will increase the likelihood of successful infusion. It will not give more than 1 stat point. While the player will likely lose the materia for unsuccessful melds, the player will not lose alexandrite. As the specific stats of the weapon increases, higher materia tier is needed for sucessful melds/upgrades.
Stats
The weapons' 5 main stats (Vitality, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Mind) upgrade automatically.
Players can upgrade additional stats such as Piety, Determination, Accuracy, Spell Speed, Skill Speed, Critical Hit Rate and Parry up to a total of 75 points. Accuracy, Spell Speed, Skill Speed, Critical Hit Rate and Parry cap at 44 points each. Piety caps at 33 points and Determination caps at 31 points.
Relic Weapons: Relic –> Zenith
Zodiac Weapons: Atma –> Animus –> Novus –> Nexus –> Zodiac Braves
Upgrading to Atma
You can start the Zodiac weapon quest line by speaking to Gerolt in North Shroud (X 30,Y 20) and starting the quest Up in Arms.
You need to have your Zenith Relic Weapon equipped when you speak to Gerolt to receive the quest.
From here you will need to grind fates in 12 different regions to receive Atma's. The following are the regions and Atma associated with it.
- C. Shroud - Atma of the Maiden
- N. Shroud - Atma of the Archer
- E. Shroud - Atma of the Goat
- S. Thanalan - Atma of the Scorpion
- E. Thanalan - Atma of the Bull
- W. Thanalan - Atma of the Twins
- C. Thanalan - Atma of the Scales
- Upper La Noscea - Atma of the Water Bearer
- Middle La Noscea - Atma of the Ram
- Outer La Noscea - Atma of the Lion
- Lower La Noscea - Atma of the Fish
- Western La Noscea - Atma of the Crab
Once you have all 12 Atma returned to Jalzahn and turn in everything.
Upgrading to Animus
To move to Animus you will have to talk with Jalzahn again, from here he will tell you you mush complete the same feats of the Zodiac braves to soul energy. You will be able to buy these books from G'jusana in Revenant's Toll (22x,7y) for 500 Soldiery Tomes.
You must complete 9 books with each book containing the following to do.
- 10 Enemies at 10 each = 100 enemies total
- 3 Dungeons
- 3 Fates
- 3 Levequests
Upgrading to Novus
Complete the quests Celestial Radiance and Star Light, Star Bright. You will need to purchase 3 Superior Enchanted Ink at the cost of 250 Soldiery Tomestones each (750 total) from Auriana. Players will then give the 3 inks to Hubairtin in Central Thanalan (x23,y13) for a Sphere Scroll.
You will need to Infuse the Sphere Scroll 75 times to complete the it.
Each infusion requires 2 items: Materia and Alexandrite. You can obtain Alexandrites by completing FATEs with animus weapons equipped (similar to Atma farming). You can also obtain alexandrites with Mysterious Maps. You can buy mysterious maps by purchasing them with 400 Soldiery Tomestones each from Auriana. You can also acquire them by completing the quest Morbid Motivation that asks you to complete Expert Duty Roulette. Quest resets daily and each completion awards the you with one Mysterious Map.
- Solving Mysterious Map is similar to solving other Treasure Maps. Players will need the skills Decipher and Dig.
- When the player fails mysterious map, the map disappears and no alexandrite is awarded.
Melding Materia
To infuse and upgrade the weapon's stats, players will use alexandrites as the catalyst to meld materia. Each successful meld infuses the stat of materia into the scroll, granting the it 1 point in the corresponding stat. Higher tier of materia will increase the likelihood of successful infusion. It will not give more than 1 stat point. While the player will likely lose the materia for unsuccessful melds, the player will not lose alexandrite. As the specific stats of the weapon increases, higher materia tier is needed for sucessful melds/upgrades.
- To complete the scroll, players will need 75 successful melds with 75 alexandrites total.
- You will not need crafting skills to meld the materia.
Stats
The weapons' 5 main stats (Vitality, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Mind) upgrade automatically.
Players can upgrade additional stats such as Piety, Determination, Accuracy, Spell Speed, Skill Speed, Critical Hit Rate and Parry up to a total of 75 points. Accuracy, Spell Speed, Skill Speed, Critical Hit Rate and Parry cap at 44 points each. Piety caps at 33 points and Determination caps at 31 points.
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