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Osten’s ARR Relic Grind Guide

Shopping List:

• 1 assorted crafted weapon + 2x materia iii - market price
• 1x Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil - 15 Poetics
• 3x Thavnairian Mist - 60 Poetics total
• 900 spare Poetics for the Animus books
• 3x Superior Enchanted Ink - 75 Poetics total
• 75 Alexandrite - 3,750 Allied Seals total (can be reduced via FATEs and daily quests)
• 4x Bombard core - 80,000 Company Seals total
• 4x sacred spring water - 800 Poetics total
• 1x brass kettle - 100,000 gil (Hyrstmill Tool Supplier & Mender)
• 1x Bronze Lake crystal - 100,000 gil (Jijiroon's Trading Post junkmonger)
• 1x Allagan resin - 100,000 gil (Forgotten Springs Merchant & Mender)
• 1x furite sand - 100,000 gil (Whitebrim Front Merchant & Mender)
• 1x each HQ crafted items: tailor-made eel pie, perfect cloth, perfect mortar, perfect pestle, furnace ring, perfect firewood, perfect vellum, perfect pounce
• 600 spare Poetics for the mahatmas

1. A Relic Reborn (i80)

• Open a coffer in one of the tribal strongholds.
• Purchase/craft and meld a base weapon; return to Gerolt.
• Defeat the Dhorne chimera (A Relic Reborn: The Chimera).
• Go to Mor Dhona to speak to Rowena; clear Amdapor Keep.
• While you're here: grab 1x Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil and 3x Thavnairian Mist from Auriana.
• Return to Gerolt; he will tell you to kill 24 specific mobs in a tribal stronghold. Do that and return to him again.
• Defeat the Hydra (A Relic Reborn: The Hydra).
• Defeat Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan on Hard difficulty.
• Give Gerolt the three primal quest items along with the Radz-at-Han Quenching Oil.

2. Forging a Zenith Weapon (i90)

• Use 3x Thavnairian Mist on Gerolt's forge with your weapon to upgrade it to a Zenith weapon.

3. Making an Atma Weapon, AKA Please RNG Have Mercy (i100)

• With the Zenith weapon equipped, clear FATEs and obtain random Atma crystal drops in the following 12 ARR zones (one Atma per zone):
  • North Shroud (Atma of the Archer)
  • Central Shroud (Atma of the Maiden)
  • East Shroud (Atma of the Goat)
  • Eastern Thanalan (Atma of the Bull)
  • Central Thanalan (Atma of the Scales)
  • Western Thanalan (Atma of the Twins)
  • Southern Thanalan (Atma of the Scorpion)
  • Lower La Noscea (Atma of the Fish)
  • Middle La Noscea (Atma of the Ram)
  • Western La Noscea (Atma of the Crab)
  • Upper La Noscea (Atma of the Water-bearer)
  • Outer La Noscea (Atma of the Lion)
• Deliver the Zenith weapon and the twelve Atmas to Jalzahn in North Shroud.

4. Making an Animus Weapon, AKA The Book Step (i100)

• Purchase a book from G'jarana in Mor Dhona for 100 poetics.
• Fill out objectives in the book: 3 dungeons, 3 levequests, 3 fates, 30 enemies.
• Repeat until 9 books have been completed.
• Return to the North Shroud and present your Atma weapon to Jalzahn.

5. Making a Novus Weapon, AKA The Scroll Step (i110)

• Purchase 3x Superior Enchanted Ink from a tomestone vendor and present them to Hubairtin at the Bonfire in Central Thanalan.
• "Infuse" the scroll with materia and alexandrite.
• You will need a total of 75 alexandrite, as well as at least 75 materia. Each infusion attempt has a percent chance to succeed; the materia but not the alexandrite will be lost on failure.
• When infusing materia, you can only infuse higher grade materia if you have infused a sufficient number of lower grade materia of the same type. At the time of writing, grade i combat materia tends to be the most expensive of the four grades that can be used.
• As a result, I recommend infusing as much grade i of a single type as possible, then moving on to ii of the same type, and so on, only starting to infuse a new type of materia when the old is exhausted. This way, the maximum number of high grade materia are used, thereby reducing the cost of this step.
• Alexandrite can be acquired via the following methods:
• 5x alexandrites can be obtained per day by completing a Mysterious Map, available from Brangwine in Mor Dhona via the daily quest "Morbid Motivation."
• Completing FATEs with an Animus, Novus, or Nexus weapon equipped has a chance to drop 1x alexandrite per FATE.
• Alexandrites can be purchased from any Grand Company Hunt Billmaster for 50x Allied Seals each.
• Once the scroll (or both scrolls, in the case of Curtana and the Holy Shield) are fully infused, bring it and the relic weapon back to Jalzahn.

Making a Nexus weapon, AKA Light Farming Part 1 (i115)

• Speak to Jalzahn to soulglaze your Novus weapon.
• Complete duties to accumulate light on your Novus weapon. A full list of duties can be found here: Link to consolegameswiki.
• By far the best option I have found is skipping the adds phase of T13 with 4+ players, taking 10-12 seconds and yielding 36 light per clear. (Skipping T13 adds tends to be more reliable than T12, and only takes 1-2 seconds longer to burst the boss down.)
• If you do not have a party, solo unsyncing the Aurum Vale takes 2-2.5 minutes and yields 48 light per clear.
• Your progress can be checked with the Zodiac Glass item, which can be replaced for free by Drake in the North Shroud if you discard it.
• When your light has fully accumulated, return to the North Shroud and speak to Jalzahn again.

Making a Zodiac weapon, AKA The Gil Sink (i125)

• Pick up the following four repeatable quests:
• A Treasured Mother, from Brangwine in Mor Dhona
• Labor of Love, from Guiding Star in Mor Dhona
• A Ponze of Flesh, from Papana in Mor Dhona
• Method in His Malice, from Adkin in Central Thanalan near the Bonfire
• Each quest has several steps and requires gathering a number of items and completing several dungeons. The items can be purchased ahead of time. The dungeons cannot be done ahead of time, but they can be unsynced, and the job used to complete them does not matter.
• A Treasured Mother
• Purchase a Bombard core (20,000 company seals), a bottle of sacred spring water (200 Poetics), and a brass kettle (Tool Supplier & Mender in Hyrstmill, North Shroud, for 100,000 gil), and return to Brangwine.
• Go to Swiftperch in Western La Noscea and speak with Ealdwine.
• Clear Amdapor Keep, Pharos Sirius, and the Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard) and return to Ealdwine in Swiftperch.
• Clear the Stone Vigil (Hard) and return to Ealdwine in Swiftperch.
• Craft or purchase an HQ tailor-made eel pie and an HQ perfect cloth and deliver them to Brangwine in Mor Dhona.
• Labor of Love
• Purchase a lump of Allagan resin from the Merchant and Mender in Forgotten Springs, Southern Thanalan, for 100,000 gil and return to Guiding Star.
• Clear the Aurum Vale and Haukke Manor (Hard) and return to Guiding Star.
• Clear The Lost City of Amdapor and Sastasha (Hard) and return to Guiding Star.
• Purchase or craft an HQ perfect mortar and an HQ perfect pestle and deliver them to Guiding Star.
• Purchase a Bombard core (20,000 company seals) and bottle of sacred spring water (200 Poetics) and deliver them to Guiding Star.
• A Ponze of Flesh
• Purchase a Bombard core (20,000 company seals), a bottle of sacred spring water (200 Poetics), and a Bronze Lake crystal (Junkmonger at Jijiroon's Trading Post, Upper La Noscea, for 100,000 gil) and return to Papana.
• Clear Dzemael Darkhold and Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) and return to Papana.
• Clear Halatali (Hard) and Snowcloak and return to Papana.
• Purchase or craft an HQ furnace ring and an HQ bundle of perfect firewood and deliver them to Papana.
• Method in His Malice
• Clear The Wanderer's Palace and return to Adkin.
• Clear Copperbell Mines (Hard) and return to Adkin.
• Clear Hullbreaker Isle and return to Adkin.
• Clear the Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) and return to Adkin.
• Purchase or craft an HQ perfect velllum and an HQ perfect pounce and deliver them to Adkin.
• Purchase a Bombard core (20,000 company seals), a bottle of sacred spring water (200 Poetics), and a handful of furite sand (Merchant & Mender at Whitebrim Front, Coerthas Central Highlands, for 100,000 gil) and deliver them to Adkin.
• Once all four sub-quests are complete, deliver the reward items and your relic to Jalzahn.

Making a Zodiac Zeta Weapon, AKA Light Farming Part 2 (i135)

• Travel to Swiftperch in Western La Noscea.
• Speak to Remon and exchange 50 Poetics for a mahatma.
• Farm light according to the same process as creating the Nexus weapon until the mahatma is finished.
• Purchase another mahatma for another 50 Poetics and repeat this process until all 12 mahatmas have been fully farmed out.

Appendix: Trials of the Braves & Item Quest Dungeons

One of the only opportunities to "pipeline" relic steps for the Zodiac weapons is to do the gil sink step simultaneously with the book step. Some of the dungeons are shared between certain books and certain quest steps. The required dungeon for each book is as follows:

• Skyfire I
• The Tam-Tara Deepcroft
• The Stone Vigil
• The Lost City of Amdapor
• Skyfire II
• Brayflox's Longstop
• The Wanderer's Palace
• The Copperbell Mines (Hard)
• Netherfire
• The Sunken Temple of Qarn
• Haukke Manor (Hard)
• Halatali (Hard)
• Skyfall I
• The Copperbell Mines
• Dzemael Darkhold
• Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)
• Skyfall II
• The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak
• Amdapor Keep
• Haukke Manor (Hard)
• Netherfall
• Cutter's Cry
• Pharos Sirius
• The Lost City of Amdapor
• Skywind I
• Sastasha
• The Aurum Vale
• Halatali (Hard)
• Skywind II
• Haukke Manor
• The Copperbell Mines (Hard)
• Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)
• Skyearth
• Halatali
• Amdapor Keep
• Pharos Sirius

Organizing by dungeon, we have:

Dungeon	Quest Step	Book(s)
Amdapor Keep	Treasured Mother (step 1)	Skyfall II Skyearth
Pharos Sirius	Treasured Mother (step 1)	Netherfall Skyearth
The Aurum Vale	Labor of Love (step 1)	Skywind I
Haukke Manor (Hard)	Labor of Love (step 1)	Netherfire Skyfall II
The Lost City of Amdapor	Labor of Love (step 2)	Skyfire I Netherfall
Dzemael Darkhold	A Ponze of Flesh (step 1)	Skyfall I
Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)	A Ponze of Flesh (step 1)	Skyfall I Skywind II
Halatali (Hard)	A Ponze of Flesh (step 2)	Netherfire Skywind I
The Wanderer's Palace	Method in His Malice (step 1)	Skyfire II
The Copperbell Mines (Hard)	Method in His Malice (step 2)	Skyfire II Skywind II