Pre-Requisite
Before begin to create your Relic Weapon, you must:
An Unexpected Proposal
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Rowena
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| Starting Location:
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Idyllshire, Idyllshire (x5,y5)
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Your journey begins with "An Unexpected Proposal" quest. This is a one time quest and does not need to be repeated; further weapons will start from  Soul Without Life. For this quest, simply:
- Speak to Rowena (x5,y5) in Idyllshire.
- Travel to Alpha Quadrant in Azys Lla to speak with Ardashir (x7,y11).
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The following 3 quests need to be completed in order, for each relic, and are job-specific. However, you can work on multiple relics at one time. An example is picking up 
Soul Without Life on your PLD, whilst working on Coming into Its Own for your WAR.
Soul Without Life
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Ardashir
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| Starting Location:
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Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x7,y11)
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- Speak to Ardashir (x7,y11) in Azys Lla.
- Travel to Mor Dhona to speak with Syndony (x22,y5). She will give you two options to receive the Astral Nodule and Umbral Nodule.
- Give up a Zodiac Zeta Weapon. Speak to Syndony again and she will allow you to turn one zeta weapon of any type (except PLD, where both sword and shield are required) for both the Astral Nodule and the Umbral Nodule. You will lose your Zodiac Zeta Weapon.
- NOTE: If you are trading in your relic, make sure to finish The Vital Title quest from Jalzahn before you do. This is the quest you complete for the Home of the Brave achievement.
- Farm fates in Heavensward zones for Crystals to turn in to her for Nodules:
- Travel to Alpha Quadrant in Azys Lla to speak with Ardashir (x7,y11).
Notes:
- Luminous Crystals can drop from any FATE in that zone, but you must complete them with a Gold Rating. It is completely random: you may get 3 Luminous Crystals in the space of an hour or just 1 Luminous Crystal after three days.
- Before Patch 3.57, the drop rate appeared to be approximately 20%. The patch, however, buffed it even higher than that.
- Being in a party or having your Chocobo out has no effect on the drop rate.
- Being able to finish FATEs faster, however, will allow for more chances in the same amount of time.
- The only mandatory requirement is that you must have an active "Soul Without Life" quest in order for Luminous Crystals to appear. You can choose to be on any job or use any weapon you like.
- When Luminous Crystals do drop, you will be alerted in-game by a popup.
- The Luminous Crystals go into your normal inventory rather than your Key Item inventory. Make sure you have free space in your inventory.
- You do not need to stay for the entire length of the FATE, but only successfully completed FATEs with at least a Gold Rating will drop Luminous Crystals.
- Use of the Party Finder is recommended to quickly group with other players.
- A Chocobo Companion can be used to make the battle easier.
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| Reward:
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1447 gil, Animated Weapons
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| Animated Weapons (iLvl 170)
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Toughening Up
| Weapons Awoken (iLvl 200)
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Coming into Its Own
| Starting NPC:
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Ardashir
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| Starting Location:
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Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x7,y11)
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This is the long grind stage. You are required to collect 4 items for Gerolt. Each of these items themselves require other items to be traded in and are traded by speaking to Cristiana in Revenant's Toll. BOTH tokens are required.
- Speak to Ardashir (x7,y11) in Azys Lla.
- Travel to Mor Dhona to speak with Christiana
NOTE: you only have to speak with her once; future anima weapons you can immediately trade with her.
- Trade tokens to Cristiana for Anima Weapon Materials. Each Material requires 10 NQ Items and 4 Crafted Items.
- The first set of NQ Tokens can be obtained numerous ways:
- The second set of Tokens are crafted with the following 1-star recipes: (As of patch 3.2, these recipes no longer require specialization to craft)(As of patch 3.38 these crafted items no longer have to be HQ)
| Token 2
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Class
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Recipe
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Company Seals
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| Adamantite Francesca |
Blacksmith |
1 Pterodactyl Strap, 1 Adamantite Nugget, 1 Birch Lumber |
5000 Company Seals
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| Titanium Alloy Mirror |
Alchemist |
1 Titanium Alloy Square, 1 Holy Water, 1 Hardsilver Sand, 1 Vitriol |
5000 Company Seals
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| Dispelling Arrow |
Carpenter |
1 Blessed Fletchings, 1 Hallowed Chestnut Lumber, 1 Hardsilver Nugget |
5000 Company Seals
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| Kingcake |
Culinarian |
1 Moogle Miniature, 1 Highland Flour, 1 Yak Milk, 1 Okeanis Egg, 1 Birch Syrup, 1 Tiny Crown |
5000 Company Seals
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- 1-star recipes used in HQ : (As of patch 3.2, these recipes no longer require specialization to craft)
| Item
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Class
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Recipe
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| Pterodactyl Strap |
Leatherworker |
1 Pterodactyl, 1 Dark Chestnut Log, 1 Dawnborne Aethersand, 2 Earth Cluster, 1 Wind Cluster
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| Titanium Alloy Square |
Armorer |
2 Sphalerite, 1 Titanium Nugget, 1 Dawnborne Aethersand, 2 Ice Cluster, 1 Earth Cluster
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| Blessed Fletchings |
Weaver |
2 Royal Mistletoe, 1 Eagle Feather, 1 Dawnborne Aethersand, 2 Lightning Cluster, 1 Wind Cluster
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| Moogle Miniature |
Goldsmith |
2 Cloud Cotton Boll, 1 Black Soil, 1 Dawnborne Aethersand, 2 Wind Cluster, 1 Fire Cluster
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- Travel to Alpha Quadrant in Azys Lla to speak with Gerolt (x7,y11) with Enchanted Rubber, Fast-drying Carboncoat, Divine Water, Fast-acting Allagan Catalyst and Weapon Awoken in inventory (quest is job-specific so you will need another weapon for the same job equipped).
Notes:
- As with the Soul Without Life phase, most of this phase can be completed as any class or job. Whilst relatively slow, completing Vanu Vanu and Vath Beast Tribe Quests is a reliable way to bring in 1 token per day (slightly more if starting from minimum rank, due to bonus jobs from rank up) along with XP for any Lv50-59 class/job, or Tomestones of Lore (from Vanu Vanu) for Lv60 classes/jobs.
- All of the tokens required (whether Unidentifiable Objects, or crafted/company seal items) can be acquired before this quest is actually available, though Cristiana will not appear until this quest has been started. Stockpiled Tomestones of Poetics are also useful. Running FATEs for the elemental crystals will generate a lot of company seals unless you are extremely lucky.
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| Reward:
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1512 gil, Anima Weapon
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Heavensward
