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This looks to be one long and grindy quest to “improve” on our old relic!
How do i Start my Zodiac Weapon Quest!?
The quest starts at Hyrstmill near Fallgourd Float – You need your Zenith Relic first. If you have your zenith, chances are you know who Gerolt is. You must have your Zenith equipped for you to begin the quest…
Navigation (By Step):
1. Fates & Atmas | 2. Upgrading | 3. Animus Weapon | 4. Novus
Zodiac Weapon Step 1 – FATES & Atmas!
Yup, this really sucks, but we need to FATE grind! There are 12 “Atmas” you need to farm, from FATES, in certain maps. These are dropped by ANY FATE IN THAT MAP (chance).
Atma Fate Locations:
| Atma | Location |
|---|---|
| Atma of the MAIDEN | Central Shroud |
| Atma of the SCORPION | Southern Thanalan |
| Atma of the WATER BEARER | Upper La Noscea |
| Atma of the GOAT | East Shroud |
| Atma of the BULL | Eastern Thanalan |
| Atma of the RAM | Middle La Noscea |
| Atma of the TWINS | Western Thanalan |
| Atma of the LION | Outer La Noscea |
| Atma of the FISH | Lower La Noscea |
| Atma of the ARCHER | North Shroud |
| Atma of the SCALES | Central Thanalan |
| Atma of the CRAB | Western La Noscea |
Do I have to be my class to get Atmas? NO! But you must be wearing any Zenith. The Atmas you farm can then be used for another class if you wish!
How do I know if I’ve gotten an Atma!? You can’t miss it (see below)
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Zodiac Weapon Step 2 – Upgrading!
The first person in our guild who got an Atma Weapon is a Bard (Rylai Ariamis), so we’re going to use Artemis Bow Atma as our example.
You can buy 9 books (3-3-2-1 kinds). Each book upgrades a certain stat. Each book costs 1500 tomestones of Mythology (!!).
There’s no customization involved here, just different ways to get to the final product. Each book required different stuff for it to “activate”. The interface is pretty cool –
But after that it just sinks in that you’re in for a grind, lol. After all nine books are purchased and “activated”, we assume the next step:
Zodiac Weapon Step 3 – Animus
After upgrading it to maximum, we assume at this point it will “turn in to” your Animus weapon. Here’s a chart of the upgrades from Atma -> Animus.
The total cost would be 13500 Tomestones.
The next step is upgrading your weapon to Novus!
Novus Weapon Upgrading
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After your Animus is complete – the next step is to upgrade it to the Novus Weapon. How is this done? You get a Novus Scroll that you meld materia onto. We have some questions about these scrolls..
- Are all scrolls the same per class?
- Are scrolls materia requirements completely random?
Please chime in on the comments!
Navigation (By Step):
1. Fates & Atmas | 2. Upgrading | 3. Animus Weapon | 4. Novus
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got the animus today, after you complete the 9th trial book you need to go back to the guy in north shroud and unequip your weapon and ask him to upgrade it
Does anyone know around what the drop rate is and if u can get a atma from failed fates
You can turn your Atma weapon into an Animus by completing all books associated with it. I can confirm that the Holy Shield Animus can be obtained by completing the two shield books without completing the 7 sword books (I have mine). Your weapons gain a glow, similar to the Zenith (holy shield is a different color than Zenith)
I bought my first book! so that to not finding it because 1500 mity were charged! help me
by help me! I made the first purchase of a book from the relic has order to buy! because I returned to my book and my thinking was charged Mytologia!? help me
Hmm! Please explain further?
I did buy the first book! bought on Friday! 1500 was debited my mythology book .. just qo is the key item in which you can be! This may be a bug!?
its on your journal i assume…
Ummm… what? I don’t even…
The chick who gives the books says I can only turn in 6 books, does that mean that you cannot currently animus Curtana, since it takes 7? I’m not sure I understand.
Aww man! Why do they have to just upgrade the existing weapon? Why not new high-end weapons? I *hate* Curtana. At least we can Glamour it.
Central La Noscea should be Middle La Noseca.
Right! LaNoscea has middle and not central, thanks haha.
It doesn’t say in the quest text that you must have a Zenith weapon equipped. Where did you get that information?
From observation. OR maybe it’s just random? ALL ATMAS in our guild were picked up using the Zenith – to be honest, we don’t want to take chances. If we’ve gotten all atmas with the zenith equipped, we’re merely sharing our experience.
OF COURSE IF SOMEONE CAN CONFIRM you can get an atma with any weapon, that would be much better!
Can confirm, you *need* to have Zenith equipped. It doesn’t say in the completed quest when referencing it, but the chat while accepting the quest stated you need to have it equipped.
In the quest, the npc states you need to kill monsters within the fates and there will obviously be a chance for the atma to drop.
Just wanted to know if you actually have to kill anything? Or if you just have to participate in the fate? Please help.
Participating is enough :)
Maiden is central shroud not thanalan error in game programmingC
thanks!
Oj man! I’ve wasted so much time to get Maiden from Central Thanalan after I got the Goat there…
so you just goat there, and goat nothing? pun intended