The level 60 relic weapons are out in Final Fantasy XIV, Anima Weapons, and the grind is real :D
So... To start working toward your weapon, you will wanna go to Idyllshire and talk to Rowena, who will be trying to carry on with life without being way-laid by Gerolt (big surprise) complaining to her about not being able to pay her back what he owes (even less surprising) because he drank all his income away (of course). You will also find her being accosted by a young guy with a pigtail complaining that his master had the good sense to give up on Anima, but that he cannot, and wants her help.
Of course, Gerolt will berate the kid, cuss at him a bit, and then mention weapons. Rowena sees a money maker, and thus, you are on your way toward your very own powerful weapon, the lucky Guinea pig for Rowena's newest money scam.
Sooo, then the boy and Gerolt run off to Azys Lla, since the lovely technology there left behind by the Allag is sweet, and yet, not sweet enough, because then, they send you to talk to Rowena again, but this time, her spot in good old Revenant's Toll.
She will send you upstairs to the balcony to talk to some girl in a bonnet about acquiring gems. NOW, if you have your Zeta weapon from maxing out your relic at 50 content, then GRATS.
She will trade you everything to move to the next part on the spot, and you can just buy a Glam version of your Zeta and move forward.
Other people, who didn't max out their lvl 50 relic weapon have to grind, for hours.
Now, what you are grinding are luminous crystals of elements, which drop 'randomly' off of FATEs in each Heavensward zone. You will need 3 of each kind of crystal, which each zone only drops one type. You do NOT have to do this grind on your 60 you are trying to get your weapon for. I lvl'd a lvl 54 alt class up doing this. The crystals for your main will still drop even if you are not on them.
So, using my experience, grinding these FATEs, since I did not have a Zeta to turn in, we will compare two zones: Sea of Clouds and Azys Lla.
In the Sea of Clouds, I got my first Crystal after FATE 3, second after ten more FATEs, and third after about sixteen or seventeen more. All in all, took about an hour and a half.
In Azys Lla, I got my first Crystal after 12 FATEs, second after twenty more and third after forty more. It took over four hours.
Soooo, essentially, with six zones to farm FATEs for, that means at minimum you are looking at 9 to 24ish hours of work to get your quest done.
Now, the next step, doing the 10 dungeons, isn't so bad. Think, about 30 minutes ish to do each one, and that is 5 to 6 hours of effort, or less if faster, to push through. Honestly, that Zeta weapon probably took way more than 24 hours to complete, but, the reward of skipping those hours of grinding seems pretty decent to me. I think that Square actually did a good job here of rewarding the people who already put in effort on their weapon.
Now, the dungeons, I find amusing, because most of them are from lvl 50 content.
| 1 | Snowcloak |
| 2 | Sastasha (Hard) |
| 3 | The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) |
| 4 | Keeper of the Lake |
| 5 | Wanderer's Palace (Hard) |
| 6 | Amdapor Keep (Hard) |
| 7 | Dusk Vigil |
| 8 | Sohm Al |
| 9 | The Aery |
| 10 | The Vault |
These are all places anyone who is lvl 60 should have already been, and most have very straightforward mechanics, except Keeper of the Lake and the Vault, last bosses, which can be heal intensive depending on your group.
The dungeons to me aren't that big a deal, but after them comes the grind that having a Zeta won't have saved you from. The actual 'hard' part of making your Anima weapon is step 3.
Basically, Gerolt wants 4 items to make your weapon. 4 things doesn't sound so bad, but to make these 4 things, you have to get tons of other things.
So, there are two kinds of tokens required to make the 4 items he wants, the first tokens are unidentifiable stuffs, that you need 20 of each for making 1 of the 4 items he wants.
The second tokens are crafted. You have to have 4 high quality items of each type made by 4 specialties of the Hand, which to make those items, you have to use the other 4 specialties to make a specific item that gives you the ability to craft the high quality items. ALL DUTIES OF THE HAND ARE REQUIRED.
So, either you gotta have friends, be on good terms with your FC, or deal with the price gouging on the Market Board, cuz you can't Specialize in all the duties of the Hand yourself, even if you have maxed out crafters.
Sooo what this all looks like is this:
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You need for Blacksmith to make your token
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You need for Alcemist to make your token
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You need for Carpenter to make your token
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You need for Culinarian to make your token
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So, 4 duties make the required special item which is used in the recipe for your High Quality tokens made by the other 4 duties.
This is gonna cost you a lot, even if you have friends and you gathered the mats yourself.
Now, these are 1 star crafts, so I guess that helps, but you need 4 of each token in HQ to turn in.
So 4 Adamantite Francesca, 4 Titanium Alloy Mirror, 4 Dispelling Arrow, and 4 Kingcake.
You will need 20 of each of your unidentifiable items, which you can honestly get pretty easily in my opinion. You will need:
20 Unidentifiable Bone, 20 Unidentifiable Shell, 20 Unidentifiable Ore, and 20 Unidentifiable Seeds.
You can get these with tombstones of law and poetics, 680 each, which are easy peasy to farm and you should have gotten a bunch just from doing your dungeons to get to the items turn in part anyhoo, doing the lvl 50 dungeons, for the poetics, plus you can use beast tribes, Alexander, 1000 allied seals, and Heavensward treasure maps.
Anyhoo, you trade your tokens in to a girl in Revenants Toll, Cristina, and boom, you get your items for Gerolt.
Anyhoo, for the first part of your questing, (FATE grind/Zeta turn in) you get a 170 ilvl weapon, and it might seem like, uh... what? but it upgrades each time you put in more effort, and you do end up with a good weapon, after all is said and done, If you push thru the grind.
So, again, Grats to the people with Zeta weapons who don't have to farm FATEs in each Heavensward zone for hours on end. Enjoy the nostalgic run thru some old dungeons, and then good luck with your items. In the end, I hope you like your weapon enough to do this again for your other 60 alt classes :D
And square does too.
Which, you can be on part 1 on say, your DRK, and be on part 3 on your SMN, for example, and that is ok, btw.
But that's what's up, it takes a while, so don't give up, and Rawr!
All links are from http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/
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