I Completed a Zodiac Relic in One Day in FFXIV 

The books are what killed me. Just let me hold every book at one time

Zodiac relics are incomparably faster now with data travel, I remember taking like a week to finish one book because fate was never spawning in my playtime window

Now for the low low price of 50 Alexandrite and one extra quest you get access to the best kettles in town.

Comparing making a relic weapon now to how it was in Arr aint possible. You have some basic things like: - Drop rates in arr (were back in arr as low as 0.5-1%) - Not being able to fly - There was a limit on how many tomes you could get a week for the relic. The books also cost like 500 each - The anima books used to have 10 of each mob, while it only spawned 3 at a time, so you would have the whole server camping the same 3 dudes... - The respawn timers of some of the fates had up to a 72 hours of respawn time... - Light grind was hell since it was complelty random which fight was on bonus. And you got so little light from each thing. - Zeta atmas was.. special since it was a small chance to get your atma drop from your dungeon, and you didnt get it until the end of the dungeon, so each dungeon taking about 20 mins to do... - Materia grind, you would break your alexandriets as well if you failed, and it was a reallyy frustrating since you only got 1 map for free each day (from the expert roulette.) and you only got 1 per map. The list goes on.

The trick is to start at 7 am (or 9 hours before reset) and have the reset occur right between all the dungeon runs. There is some leeway, but timing is key.

The daily instance cap is exactly 100, I saw this from Blue Mage gil farming videos. The instance caps will block you out from doing solo quest duties and Gold Saucer Gates such as Leap of Faith and Airforce one as well (The stage ones and the chocobo hatchling are still fine since they are not instanced). I think I once reached the cap through Chocobo Racing.

I damn near spit my food out when I saw my Retainers name in a random Video on RU-vid! You bought my Vampire's Knives! I guess the premelded ones I was selling were already gone... Little did I know what adventures those knives would see. Congrats on the -Zodiac- Zeta Weapon!

The biggest thing I like about the ARR relics is that they can be used in the Heavensward relics. The idea that they are the culmination of your time in ARR, travel with you through Heavensward, and in some form they continue to grow in power is such a neat concept.

“You need to complete Aurum Vale 42 times.” So confirmed, Aurum Vale *is* the meaning of life

I remember back in the day I got all the ATMA in one day and my friends still talk about it to this day. I can't even complain about rng in this game because they bring up the atma incident everytime and are just like "girl shut up, eff you"😂 xD

I find it silly that SE hasn't just axed the gil drops from ARR/HW dungeons instead of imposing that silly duty limit because they don't exist in SB onwards, but have historically been one of the most heavily farmed sources of gil for bots. The drops are too small to be meaningful to normal players so I kind of doubt anyone would actually miss them.

I completed all Zodiac relics. I hadn't realized the toll it took on me until watching this video made me feel physically ill. But congrats on your relic!

Getting a Zodiac is essentially saying after every step, "Well that wasn't so bad how bad could it be from here?" and it just gets progressively more mentally draining than the next.

I'm gonna feel bad saying this... but apparently the most efficient way to get light is to see which one has the bonus out of the three dungeons. Tam-tara, Stone Vigil, and Aurum Vale. You unsync all three of them and you spam the one that gives you the "blinding" bonus that shifts every two hours that's better than the brilliant light that you were getting spamming Aurum Vale. ...man I can't believe you actually hit the duty cap.

As someone who's done half the weapons available and only got 2 book grinds left, they're fun to do in downtime when you dunno what you wanna do on any game, but to do it in 1 day you've actually lost the plot 😂 Amazing stuff though still, congrats 👏

Some of your tips helped me in my free trial zodiac journey, and after completing the first I decided I had not felt enough pain and began gathering the materials to make the other 9 relics

The *best* way I've found to farm these is to do it with 2 other people. Every book has 3 FATEs, so you just have one person sit in each zone. None of the FATEs up? Queue for a dungeon. FATE up? Everyone goes to do it and then goes back to their designated zone. Rinse and repeat. It's great.

I remember doing my light grind last year for my first weapon, optimising it, reporting to friends on my fastest times, declinging sanity. They at least pulled me out every now and then for raids and roulette, would have gone truly mad otherwise

I did PLD's Zodiac relic before I even got to HW, during EW. At level 60. On the free trial. It was awful. Keep in mind that "it's easier now" does NOT mean "it's easy". Also, for those giving it a try, Garuda Extreme is better than Aurum Vale for the first light farm. Faster by two thirds, for only slightly less light. If you have two level 90 dps, you can get it done in *9* seconds. Recently helped a friend through theirs and that's how we did that step. Just spamming the quest and trying to beat the time each run. I think our lowest was 6 seconds if we got every hit off just right.

you dont need to comeplete a leve, you can just pick one up and abandon it and it still refreshes the list, picking up a level changes the list not completing them

Great video, Rinon. I did the NIN weap myself and a BLM one and can tell you your chat definitely did you a favor. Maybe unintentionally because they wanted you to suffer but optimized you can finish Aurumn Vale with NIN in like 1:09 or even faster. And the weapon looks the best imo from all ARR ones. Even better than the Ultimate daggers of any Ultimates. With BLM it would've been major pain to farm fates AND run Aurumn AND do books. I thought you're on Light not Chaos. Thanks for the p12s guide it's pretty standard here.

I didn't do my ARR Relic in 1 day, but I did do it on the Free Trial. No market board access - I had to get all of the materia and crafted items manually! I worked on it slowly in the background and it took like 3 months - mostly because of the materia and a couple of craft materials that can only drop from certain treasure maps. The 300k gil cap was also a bit of an issue with regards to getting the desynth items since they only come from overpriced vendor items.

light farming can be done in half an hour ish with spamming ifrit, 3 seconds per run its longer to load in and out than do the fight. works for both light farms

I've done like 4-5 Zetas and the last 2 were a breeze because of World travel. It makes Books so much faster it's a night and day difference. I think my last weapon I finished in 2 days.

im on my 6th ARR weapon, you can get the crafted step open as you're doing books (after the first weapon) so the dungeons you do for books also work for the crafted step

the tip about picking up the levequests in advance for future books is an absolute godsend as i'm literally on the books step of a zodiac weapon grind right now.... my second one, that is. wish i'd thought of doing that on the first one! but at least i can do it on this second time around.

I enjoyed the pain so much, I did all 10 of them For the levepart, if u hold the ones u dont want, the leves will be forced to pick the ones u want to fill the pool, making that part pretty much not RNG at all, especially handy if u do multiple relics

for materia I and II, i use crafted hq right side with slots when i gather or craft. The spiritbond really quickly and i extract materia 1s from that.

i have yet to do a Zodiac weapon or do UWU but i feel like uwu prog would go faster than an arr relic xd

So the key is to start maybe 12hrs after daily reset to prevent the bot prevention mechanism.

Now that I've watched your video I think I'll give it a go!! Thanks for sharing the process XD

The way I did atmas way back when was to stay in a zone until I had atmas for each weapon.

The entire thing about happening to have a ton of Alexandrite and not knowing what it was for can be summed up in 3 words: "Rich people problems"

What amazing accomplishment, ARR RELIC in 1 day!, i remember getting a PLD relic weapon right after i beat ARR when i was like lvl 62 and broke, the whole ARR relic took me like an month to complete

The Instance Cap. I wasn’t expecting it but here we are. That’s insane.

Meanwhile there is me, 7 month player chilling down the game slowly, doing one book per day to preserve my sanity.

fun fact. You don't ahve to turn the leve in to trigger a new one showing up. You just have to complete it. this works 95% of the time, so you can actually forcably get the entire leve list from a single levemete into your quest log at once. It doenst' fix everyting but it takes a big bite out of the RNG aspect of it

I remember doing the bow together with a friend because it was such a pain, we could only handle one book a day because after that we were already exhausted. Luckily he was also a rich crafter so getting some of the items was easier. But that didn't stop me from going "Are we done yet?" after every step. Having the stamina and motivation to do this in one day baffles me (and I learned of the duty limit I never heard anything about) so congrats. Also I really like the Zeta weapon designs, feel like they totally hold up to modern relics

I got my Yoichi Bow Zeta before Heavensward released. It took quite a bit of effort, but having that sweet glowy boy going into the next bit of content was fantastic.

I actually finished 4 or 5 Atma grinds over the years just randomly doing a FATE now and again as I passed thru the areas.

This video really puts into perspective how easy this grind is when you just marketboard through half of it

Just watching JustRuss' reaction to this and when you talked about Alexandrite and the tome requirements of those one thing I suddenly remembered was there is another way to collect Alexandrite if you are insane enough to do it. If you farm FATEs in ARR with the Animus weapon equipped they sometimes can drop 1 Alexandrite at about the same rate as the atma with the Zenith weapon.

done with my 6th almost, 4 more to go ^^ Did all 60/70/80 relics. Love relics ♥

definitely make sure you hang onto that weapon because unlike every other relic weapon, you have to actually bring the completed zodiak weapon with you to the replica vendor to buy versions of any of the steps for glam

Last year I decided I wanted to get all of the ARR relics done. So I've been slowly working on doing the steps for all of them one by one. I only have three relics to get past the books.

For the book step if your fate isn’t popping up I’m 99 percent sure you can just start doing the other fates in the area to get your desired fate to spawn when I’ve done this before assuming my fate hasn’t spawned yet it takes me 5-10 minutes to spawn in my experience

I’d love them to let you do at least 2 books at a time even though I’m down to 3 to complete.

When I did the Atma stage at release, I was able to get the second set in less than an hour(basically two weapons done). That pissed a lot of people off that were still hunting for 1 in the same zone when I returned.

FYI just did my ARR relic yesterday (took me 3 days) but at the last step where you need to farm light 12 times me and a friend ran the trial ultima's Bane. 6 second clear time and only takes 5 runs per step. It works on the light farming in the earlier step as well and is SO MUCH FASTER than running dungeons. Finished that step in less than 1 hour.

What is the chest piece you're wearing at the beginning of the video?

Why did you do Aurum Vale? Tam-Tara Deepcroft is so much easier unsynced and gives the same amount of light. ;) Also, I did not realize that there is a 100 duty limit cap which bans you from Duty Finder until the reset. I guess it's because I didn't do 100 dungeons in a single day.

it took me 1 year to do all the ARR relics and about 25-50million Gil and 1 ARR relic requires about 1.4million gil in total to complete each Arr Relic requires close to that much gil to do

It's crazy how much easier this game is as a streamer

Subscribed, absolutely madman

i do remember these caps were added for safety of players health. it seems odd but i do recall an interview where they explained why this exists. its not to deal with bots though but thats most i recall other than what i mentioned as possible recalled factoids.

you can also get a lot of alexandrite pretty quick by doing the treasure maps for them, which is a looooot faster than any of the other methods. (but still not quite as fast as already having them im a retainer I guess lol)

I just finished my second zodiac and for the final light farm and there's two things that really struck me. (books are books, nothing special here) This go around, for my final step, I bribed a friend with the inferno horns we'd find and did ifrit ex. At 30 seconds each run and 2-3 runs per mahatma, this step did not take that long. The backbreaker here is the books, and the gil step if you dont have that much. I only had 1.5 mil going into this and now I hover at about 50k. Still, congrats on your weapon! the Zodiacs are one of the best looking weapons in the game

I'll fully admit, my trick for doing teh Atma step was to keep grinding FATEs until I had enough duplicates of every Atma so I could just immediately skip straight to the book step of FATEs. I'm working at getting every Relic Weapon in FF XIV for every job, so I've got a fair bit of overall work, but it'll be a great flex, since it' smostly just time consuming, and it's a great time-sink in between major patches.

I swear, when I grinded for my ARR Bow, I got aneurism on my aneurism. It was prolly longest grind I did in this game, ngl.

for light farm, I prefer 5sec ifrit normal runs. Even without bonus light its comparable to aurum vale WITH bonus light

Unsynced didn't exist in ARR, dungeons were a lot harder then they are now, drop rates are improved from what they were.. In short everything is a lot easier now then they used to be.

Good job. For the next challenge/Zodiac, try doing it old-school. No server/DC hopping, no pre-farming Alexandrites and start the run with 0 poetics :D

Was great to watch that!

making the calculations it's like... 6 duties on the first step + 27 on the books step, +42 on the light step (dunno how many had bonuses) + 18 on the mahatma step, it's a total of 93 duties per day you can do in this game before the restriction activates xD

When you said you did the vail 42 times my jaw dropped.. I’m so sorry. Sending you my hopes and prayers

It took me a month or two to grind out my Zodiac weapon. I had the bright idea to go out of my way to level up all my crafters to 50, gear them up (and collect all of the Supra/Lucis tools) so that I could do the craft parts on my own.

Why has no one in the comments mentioned the fact that there was (and still is) a 0.02% chance that when Jahlzahn melds your zodiac weapon into a Zeta, the meld can FAIL OUTRIGHT, destroying the weapon and all components completely?

you can also grind all the atma crystals early if you plan on getting all ARR relic weapons. I have like 2 and a half ARR relics and it's the worst grind in the game because of the SHEER amount of dungeons you have to run as well as the atma grinding (if you grind for all 12 weapons at once)

I have done Zodiac weapons (when able to no-life them) in about 3 days each on average entirely solo. I genuinely recommend using Bozja for grinding poetics and just AFK for FATEs to spawn at specific locations rather than seever hopping so you retain your sanity.

I did only a Zodiac weapon and was for the Warrior Axe and tbh, the light farm was the thing that traumatized me and made me never want to step into Sastasha again. I chose to spam Sastasha because I could 1 shot most things with the relic still so I wouldn't accidentally forget to swap weapons before exiting dungeon/equipping it before the final boss.

The big problem with the books is that they dont allow you to get into the flow of the grind. Usually, if you have a big task of killing billions of mobs you eventually just enter a zen state of mind where time flies by and you dont even notice the grind anymore. Not so much here, with the book giving you tasks all over the world, where you must constantly travel back and fro zone after zone after zone. This more then killing tons of mobs grinds my gears so much it becomes unthinkable to continue.

This relic weapon grind will always and forever be part of my ffxiv journey. Im damn proud i also got through it.

I started a zodiac weapon years ago, and I quit partway through my first book. It's still there in my quest inventory, using space, next to the obsolete Aether Compass I don't want to discard.

Does anyone know where to find that list of levequests he mentions?

I have done this relic twice and and i think what kills me to with this relic is that for the 2nd half of it there is no quest what so ever, you have to go into your COMPLETED quests to keep track of what you were asked to do and for certain parts of the relic it's SUPER vague just reading what's in the quest log to try and figure out what to do. it's is not a "hard" relic to get but it is stupid grindy all that said i would do this over bozja and eureka any day of the week.

I remember doing the atma grind when it first came out on my old ps4 account, it was miserable, took me weeks of grinding FATEs and i never did get all 12.. think i made it to 8 and just stopped playing from general burnout but im sure grinding for atma every day accelerated the progress. Years later i got a pc and made a new account so that relic will forever be unfinished, glad to hear they've drastically increased the drop rate of atma though, cuz that shit sucked.

i love the defense fate in north la noscea, thats fails after arround 50 seconds. i was camping this spot for 40 min until the fate finally apeared

Im not sure if Aurum Vale is truly the most time efficient way of doing the Nexus Light farm. I did it doing King Moggle Mog Extreme over and over again, and since you can kill him with some coordination within 30 seconds or less, especially with friends, even factoring in loadingscreens you make much more light per minute/hour even though you dont get as much light per kill

I did the black mage weapon. I have said I won’t do another zeta weapon again.

Part of me wants to make this relic on the free trial, but that is pretty intimidating. In particular, the zodiac stage looks intimidating since it requires eight high quality crafted items. Apparently the only way to get some materials on the free trial is through desynthesis? Oh man.

For light farming you can also run 63 times mogry king extreme wich takes about 30 sec per run

Btw, what's the dress you're using, I love the armor dress combo and had an idea for a glam

Here i am watching this as i wait for the 24 hour patch, i just finished arr and im doing all the in-between expansions

as someone that has near all the relics and is working on completing my last 3 manderville relics, i just hope dawntrail has hand/land relics, i liked doing those~

omg you made me wanna continue my long time abandoned zodiac weapon

finishing my 5th Arr Relic weapon soon.. not going into HW until i finish all 10.. doing the relic weapons gives you at least 30 levels lol

I've done two Zodiac relics so far and I still don't understand why each one needs nine animus books. We're only updating four skills by a tiny amount in the end, so surely it would make more sense to just have one book per skill for a totof four. It would still be grindy but you'd cut that step down by more than half.

Completing relics is a drug that I recommend to anyone. It feels so wonderful to put a lot of effort into something and have it completed. Go do your relics! It's amazing!

So, this is my third week on ffxiv. Anyone know where I can find a guide to getting Excalibur? ; - ;

Lol I did mine with monk. It took a week for mine. There is nothing on the net about this but the fates with axe icons have the highest drop rate for atma. This was discovered after multiple are relic weps. The odds always greatly increased on those fates compared to others.

I have only ever done the PLD one, and i can't see myself doing it again. At least not until i have all of the crafters levelled

I'm currently working on the veil of wiyu in free trial, the grind is insane

17:21 im stuck at this step rn, im poor af. Not sure on what to do to get that much gil :(

I did all 10 relics in a few weeks. I had covid and no responsibilities and all of netflix at my disposal. I actually enjoyed myself strangely enough

I decided a while back to get all my ARR relics. I got ALL to book stage and got some finished...but that was where the grind got too tedious and my brain stopped giving me the rewarding dopamine hit and I stopped. Maybe I'll ho back to it after i catch up on the more current content i've been putting off like....the MSQ

i've been doing the dragoon relic for like a year (with time taken off the game though now and then) and every time i look at the stupid books i wanna plunge the gae bolg through my abdomen, it's so monotonous especially by yourself, plus the tomestones, plus alexandrite.. thinking about just doing the eureka ones at this rate lol

oh! i never knew you were playing on the same server as I. well done btw!

I'm getting sleepy just watching you do the book step, I did it twice and still want to do a third one but god damn is it monotonous

This brings back ptsd... I got the warrior relic during ARR, I NEVER did it again for any other job..

Trying to do Zodiacs on White Mage and Paladin be cause it looks cool and i wanted glams for those classes. It takes me hours to do one book.