Guide to your Zodiac: Hello everyone! This next step in our relic chain is probably going to be the worst grind yet! (Yay!). You get to spam dungeons, craft HQ items that require desynth materials, spend hundreds of thousands of gil, and thousands of soldiery! To begin, just start with the Main Quest below, then pick your choosing of sub-quests that each give a piece of the required materials for the Main Quest
[Wherefore Art Thou, Zodiac (Main Quest)
* A Ponze of Flesh (Sub Quest) *
Requirements:
Go to Revenant's Toll (22,7) and speak with Papana Buy a Bombard Core (Grand Company 20,000 seals), Bronze Lake Crystal (100,000 gil; Junkmonger (26,26) Upper La Noscea), and Sacred Spring Water (1,600 Tomes of Soldiery [Auriana]) Obtain a Horn of the beast which prowls Dzemael Darkhold (Dzemael Darkhold) Obtain a Gobmachine Bangplate from Brayflox Longstop (Hard) Obtain a Narashima Hide from Halatali (Hard) Obtain a Sickle Fang from Snowcloak Obtain a High Quality Furnace Ring (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ) Obtain a Bundle of Perfect Firewood (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ)
* Labor of Love (Sub Quest) *
Requirements:
Go to Revenant's Toll (21,6) and speak with Guiding Star Obtain an Allagan Resin (100,000 gil; Merchant (15,29) Southern Thanalan) Obtain a Vale Bubo from Aurum Vale Obtain a piece of Voidweave from Haukke Manor (Hard) Obtain a slip of Amdapor Vellum from the Lost City of Amdapor Obtain an Indigo pearl from Sastasha (Hard) Obtain a perfect mortar and pestle (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ) Buy a Bombard Core (Grand Company 20,000 seals) and Sacred Spring Water (1,600 Tomes of Soldiery [Auriana])
* Method in His Malice (Sub Quest) *
Requirements:
Go to Central Thanalan (23,13) and speak with Adkin Obtain a vial of tonberry king blood from the Wanderer's Palace Obtain a vial of royal gigant blood from the Copperbell Mines (Hard) Obtain a vial of kraken blood from Hullbreaker Isle Obtain a vial of vicegerent blood from the Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) Obtain a High Quality page of perfect Vellum (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ) Obtain a pinch of perfect pounce (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ) Buy a Bombard Core (Grand Company 20,000 seals), Furite Sands (100,000 gil; Merchant (13,16) Coerthas) and Sacred Spring Water (1,600 Tomes of Soldiery [Auriana]) *
* A Treasured Mother (Sub Quest) *
Requirements:
Go to Revenant's Toll (22,6) and speak with Brangwine Buy a Bombard Core (Grand Company 20,000 seals), Brass Kettle (100,000 gil; Vendor (29,19) North Shroud), and Sacred Spring Water (1,600 Tomes of Soldiery [Auriana]) Obtain lost treasure from Amdapor Keep Obtain lost treasure from Pharos Sirius Obtain lost treasure from TamTara Deepcroft (Hard) Obtain lost treasure from the Stone Vigil (Hard) Obtain a High Quality tailor-made eel pie (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ) Obtain a piece of perfect cloth (Desynth aged goods from Silver Bazaar; Craft Item HQ)
FAQ
(1) By completing a dungeon, there is a small chance that you will obtain the associated item.
(2) The Main Quest goes under your Journal under Completed Side Story Quests
(3) It costs 400,000 gil to get the merchant-sold materials (Brass Kettle, Allagan Resin, Bronze Lake Crystal)
(4) It takes 6,400 tomestones of soldiery to gather all of the Sacred Spring Waters
(5) It takes 80,000 grand company seals to gather all of the Bombard Cores
(6) You *DO NOT** need to equip your relic weapon to get the drops from the dungeons! (4:04AM PST-12/9)*
(7) You can be on another job/class and still get the item drops from the dungeons.
(8) You cannot progress further ahead in a given subquest and get the dungeon drops (You cannot go into Hullbreaker Isle and get the blood without have completed the Copperbell Mines part prior).
(9) (See above FAQ as well) You cannot begin the grind for dungeon items if you have not started the quest. That means you cannot try and get the items with your highest relic upgrade being the animus.
(10) You CAN do this quest like most of the prior relic quest lines and stock up on the items for another Job's/Class's relic.
Meirii replied
536 weeks ago