Relic Weapon Revival (06/06/2012)

[Rocl]

A-ha some of the ambiguous steps have been filled out on the JP side. Seems to confirm the currencies I posted before with the following new info:
[The step before this is to get the requisite book for each relic, the step consists of Caravan, Behest, Darkhold and Beastmen Currency]

I can't make out the gobbledygook but it looks like Unfinished Weapons have some sort of penalty other than Spiritbond (that makes it difficult to do solo).

Then you have to apparently re-enact the legendary battles the weapon has seen etc starting with a Faction Leve:

Spharai - Azeyma's Shields - Tiger Helm Island (Pirates)
Curtana - Broken Blades - Burnt Lizard Creek (Amal'jaa? Bounty? unsure)
Bravura - Broken Blades - Iron Lake (Kobolds)
Gae Bolg - Azeyma's Shields - Tiger Helm Island (it's a bounty quest, idk a humanoid and probably some helper mobs)
Artemis Bow - Broken Blades - Riversmeet (Ixali)
Stardust Rod - Azeyma's Shields - Mistbeard Cove (Princess Pudding lol)
Thyrus - Azeyma's Shields - Maiden's Glen (another bounty)

unsure of the last two camps. bleh, here's the JP if anyone who actually speaks Japanese can figure it out: 霧髭入江 & 幽谷

Then it's Ifrit (Extreme) and Garuda. Killing them gives you a key item to make and finalize the relic. Ifrit looks like you just need to win, for Garuda looks like you need to meet some sort of specifications and win.

for those inclined to believe i am making this up:
http://ff14fan.haru.gs/db/db_relic.php


edit: upon further investigation blm should be mistbeard cove and not the other two i had in mind. which makes sense because i had never heard of a mordhona leve before and was wondering wtf music it would play ;\

[Niiro]

Problem is I don't know the names of them. Just saw the bard one on the official forums, the stats look nice.

I can't even decide which weapon to go for. I am BLM main but mages hardly use their weapons so it seems like a melee weapon would be better. Problem with that is I don't know which melee class I'd want to play. Still pissed at SE giving archer a support job, I don't want to stand their singing and tossing cures. I don't like PGL, I don't like GLD. That leaves me with MRD and DRG, neither of which I've played.

http://mozk-tabetai.com/

diff -> 1.22b/c -> look under each job.

They didn't Claustrum the mage weapons this time around, they're perfectly useful.

Also wtf at people complaining about BRD being a "support job"?

You sing 1 or 2 low cast time songs every 3 mins and spend the rest of the time DDing. BRD cures aren't worth a damn and no one is expecting a BRD to heal the party unless the shit has hit the fan (a WHM's Regen is probably going to heal faster than a BRD spamming Cure).

[Rocl]

Bard has Raise. Checkmate.

[Niiro]

You're right, it has such a long cast time how will BRD DD when they're spamming it all fight long.

I hang my head in shame ._.

[shepardG]

I chortled, good show

[Lucavi]

My question is this: Are all of these fetch and bitch quests tied into one another? Is the weapon being crafted by someone? Is it a weapon you already have that's being embued by a bunch of different items? The way I'm reading all of these requirements, it kinda seems like you just need to travel the small world, collecting a bunch of random items that aren't that easy to get. Is there any kind of link or storyline to the actual weapon, or is this like the old days of RPGs where you find a Wizened old man, give him a bunch of hard-to-obtain junk, and he bequeaths you a legendary weapon of immense power.

I'm trying to find some common threads between the quests and the items required, but I'm not doing a very good job of it.

[Rocl]

Yes, afaik the story is you want a relic weapon and that all of this is necessary to make it cuz it's super-duper hard to do, idk if they're alive like XI weapons tho

Rowena says she knows a master smith, but he's a drunkard. She's willing to give you her promissory note that he gave her for something in exchange for Beastmen Seals which her very rich employer wants. (Her very rich employer which doles out Primal Weapons and Faction gear likes rare useless things as rich people often do, kinda like big orange purses)

So you get that and Gerrod agrees to smith it, but he needs to know exactly what to smith. So you go get an old relic weapon from a beastmen (no idea why they have it, but why the fuck not) and a class-only weapon with materia which he further crafts into your relic using the old one as a blueprint? (serves as the vessel or catalyst or some shit i think he says about the doublemeld?) then he needs materials to make it (aurum vale's mythril and cutter's cry salt) further this I have no idea what the idea behind all the random shit is other than he wants a book about the relic weapon you want, and you need to trade the drops from Darkhold, Beastmen Currency, Caravan, Behest to get it(?) and then he finally makes it but it's not good enough, so you need to bond it to you (something like that?) via spiritbond (obvious) and then replicate the "battles of old" or some bullshit which is Faction Leves and for the finishing touches he needs Ifrit's flame and Garuda's wind cuz fire and wind are used in smithing i guess and they need to be magical fire and wind that are super strong

[Lucavi]

Thanks, Rocl. I miss the Hydra Corps Relic weapons plot. That was seriously good shit for a MMO; talking weapons are never a bad thing.

So apparently your class-only weapon is transformed over time and lots of hammering of a master smith into an eventual relic weapon. Cool, I guess.

[Odin'sLaw]

one thing early 11 did right was them tribunals

[Arthars]

behest is getting a fix on the 28th it seems. Some JP said theres info abt it on the official forums where the band now only drop/warden give? when u have quest flagged

EXACT QUOTE FROM YOSHI-P on JP forum:

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。

修正が確定しましたのでお知らせい

[Rocl]

I hope hot fix brings something else too! =( [on one hand, i laughed that they had to fix the content so soon but i stopped laughing when i realized that they were fixing content so soon to be less retarded]

Also, I have no idea how fervently the majority here reads the Official Forums (who play, anyways) but there's a report that people are shouting for Ifrit (Extreme) at this point, so it's possible 8/8 people being on the fight is not necessary.

[Kurokikaze]

I hope hot fix brings something else too! =( [on one hand, i laughed that they had to fix the content so soon but i stopped laughing when i realized that they were fixing content so soon to be less retarded]

Also, I have no idea how fervently the majority here reads the Official Forums (who play, anyways) but there's a report that people are shouting for Ifrit (Extreme) at this point, so it's possible 8/8 people being on the fight is not necessary.

Of course not... That would be awful. Everything in this game, so far, relies on just one person having the quest open to go inside the instance.

Also, imagine how hard it would be to find 8 people on a Relic quest. lol

[Rocl]

Heard a lot of people saying/speculating otherwise so I figure it's worth the clarification =P

[Fievel]

Heard a lot of people saying/speculating otherwise so I figure it's worth the clarification =P

Definitely worth the clarification, thank you. I was worried we really would need all 8 people to be at the same point in the quest.

[gilgam]

LETS FORGOT ABOUT RELIC!!! THIS IS ****ing ****.
seriously, SE wont let us to get Relic.

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Selosiq_S0.jpg
http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Sem26nZeLM.jpg
http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...SenkJ7alRo.jpg

[Nama]

What the flying fuck is SE serious.

[Fievel]

LETS FORGOT ABOUT RELIC!!! THIS IS ****ing ****.
seriously, SE wont let us to get Relic.

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Selosiq_S0.jpg
http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Sem26nZeLM.jpg
http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...SenkJ7alRo.jpg

Those pictures, holy shit.

I honestly can't wait to start doing this fight.

[Rocl]

HOLY SHIT LOL

[Fievel]

The third pic with all the nails made me laugh out loud at work, haha.

[Rocl]

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Selosiq_S0.jpg

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...Sem26nZeLM.jpg

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...SenkJ7alRo.jpg

It's a fucking crime not to img tag those.