Regarding Reports of Not Being Able to Progress Through the Anima Weapon Quest

We’ve been receiving reports in regards to the Anima weapon quest where players have been unable to progress. While the causes of this may differ due to your status, please read over the following points before reporting your issue.
　
1. It is only possible to progress with the Anima weapon quest for the job that you accepted it as.

• When accepting the quest, please talk to the NPC as the job you would like to undertake the quest as.
• When completing the quest, please be sure to talk to the NPC as the job you accepted the quest as.

2. It is not possible to undertake quests on multiple jobs at the same time.

• In the event that you wish to progress through this quest on multiple jobs, please first complete the quest you accepted, and then accept the quest again on another job.

3. You can confirm which job you accepted the quest as by checking your journal.

4. It's possible to re-accept the Anima Weapon quest after you have completed it.

• Please be cautious not to accept the quest on a job for which you have already completed the quest on.
• In the event that you have already accepted the quest, abandon the quest and re-accept it on the job for which you wish to undertake it as.
  
  
  We've been receiving a large amount of reports mentioning that after completing the quest "Soul Without Life" and receiving an Anima weapon, it is not possible to progress since they are already in possession of an Anima weapon when they are trying to complete the quest again as the same job.

　
In the event that you are still unable to progress even after confirming the above, please respond to this thread with details on the problem you're encountering.

Something that could be a potential situation where someone thinks they can't progress:

- In case of someone who wants to exchange a Zeta weapon for the nodules, if the Zeta weapon is not in the Armory Chest (why would it be, it's long obsolete and nobody actually uses them at this point), there is no marker or any indication in the text that it can be handed to Sydony right after the cutscene, just need to initiate a new conversation. I'm not sure if the lack of a marker was just due to how overcrowded she was at the time I was there, or if it's "working as intended" though, but in the latter case, it might be worth to fix it, as it's quite confusing.

- After having the Awoken weapon and Gerolt sending us to Mor Dhona, neither the conversation with the quest NPC girl (forgot her name), nor the journal gives any indication of what the items needed are, nor how to obtain them. Once again, there is no quest marker above the girl's head, either. Kind of not obvious at all that by talking to the girl again, we can get to the needed info; again, if it's "working as intended", it might be worth to fix it somehow.

Also, the fact that the quests can be accepted again right after finishing them, on the same job that we just finished it, is not only confusing and misleading, but quite pointless as well. Many quests have lockdowns on them when we aren't the appropriate job to accept/finish them - perhaps accordingly adjusting these as well would be nice to avoid misunderstandings and confusion (ie. if I completed it as a SMN, I shouldn't be able to pick it up again as a SMN).

Greetings,

The intention of this thread was to help gather any info or problems users are running into regarding progressing their Anima weapon. As such, we've been moderating any off-topic discussions. We've been gathering feedback from all relevant portions of the forum, so please keep this thread on topic.

This is the case with me... I had 2 zetas, Began anima quest, handed in 2 Zetas to get 4 nodules.

I began ninja relic and progressed through 6 dungeons. (toughing up quest in progress)

I then decided i wanted to do my paladin relic. So I changed class and went through the motions again, handed in my 2 nodules to Azys NPC, at this point the quest just looped. wanted me to go back to Rowena.

I thought maybe the fact I had ninja relic quest in progress was gating my ability to start the paladin one, so I abandoned the ninja quest (I dont mind losing that I want to do PLD)

Switched back to paladin with the i170 (animated?) paladin sword and shield, and tried to get the Toughing up quest at Azyz NPC, but no quest options. He wants nodules again. I really dont want to have to do all the fates and crystals, when Ive traded in a Zeta to get the nodules and made the mistake of trying to do 2 at once...

{Fixed} all I had to do was cancel the quest and respeak to npc in azys and it opened up the option for both quests ^^

I accidentally picked up the same quest again, for the same job and was afraid to abandon the duplicate quest in fear it might affect the one I'm currently doing. Since I turned in my Zeta weapon towards it, I'm very nervous about having two of the same exact quest at two different completion points coming into conflict with themselves later.
The reason why I picked up the second quest was because I wasn't aware it was the repeat. Since you can only complete one relic at a time, may I suggest removing the option to renew the quest until after the final step or someone chooses to abandon their current one.

quick question what are the weapon ilevels from 3.2 gonna be like as considering the anima grind will take far longer please make the anima say 5 ilevels higher than the new bis weps in 3.2 to make the grind and effort worth it.

I was unable to progress after I finished Toughening Up. Turns out that I also picked up Soul Without Life. Dropped that quest, and was able to pick up Coming Into Its Own and continue. (even was able to pick up Soul Without Life again!).

The quest destroyed my fiancee's warrior relic zenith and gave her another monk one that she already had. How does she fix this?

Greetings,

We would like to further clarify a point that we mentioned yesterday. We mentioned that it is not possible to undertake quests on multiple jobs at the same time; however, you may accept the quests on different jobs as long as they are not on the same quest. In most instances, the trouble stems from the fact that you need to change jobs before attempting to re-accept the "Soul Without Life" quest if you've already progressed beyond that on one job.

For example:

• Accept and complete the quest "Soul Without Life" as machinist.
• Accept the "Toughening Up" quest as machinist.
• Now switch jobs/classes, and accept "Soul Without Life" with a different job/class.
  • Again, as mentioned previously, please be cautious not to re-accept the quest on a job for which you have already completed the quest on.
  • In the event that you have already re-accepted the quest on a previously completed job, abandon the quest and re-accept it on the job for which you wish to undertake it as.

We have also received reports where the quest requirements for the quest "Toughening Up" would change from using the weapon for the initial job you accepted the quest with, to the job currently undergoing "Soul Without Life." We're aware of this issue, and currently looking into this.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused, and ask for your patience while we investigate solutions.

Also, when reporting any issues you're running into, please be as detailed as possible so that we can share all of the info with the development team!

Ok finished soul without a life by turning in my zeta, not only did I lose my zeta when doing this I didn't get my animated deathbringer from the quest but it flagged touching up which I am now stuck on because I didn't get my animated weapon, and after wasting 5 hours waiting on a GM all I get is a sorry about your luck and that I needed to go post here as if that will make it magically appear in my inventory, so here I am wasting time posting this knowing all I will get is we are so sorry blah blah blah

I only have one Zeta and abandoned and re accepted the quest again as a WHM from Ardashir. She has a green check mark above her head but all she says to me is "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?" I tried equipping my zeta, putting it in my armoury chest and putting it in my inventory. But she will not take it. all she says is. "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?"

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Originally Posted by PrincessSofia

I only have one Zeta and abandoned and re accepted the quest again as a WHM from Ardashir. She has a green check mark above her head but all she says to me is "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?" I tried equipping my zeta, putting it in my armoury chest and putting it in my inventory. But she will not take it. all she says is. "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?"

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Read the journal.

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Originally Posted by PrincessSofia

I only have one Zeta and abandoned and re accepted the quest again as a WHM from Ardashir. She has a green check mark above her head but all she says to me is "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?" I tried equipping my zeta, putting it in my armoury chest and putting it in my inventory. But she will not take it. all she says is. "Welcome back, Were you able to acquire what we need?"

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You have to turn your item in to the lady upstairs on the terrace in Mor Dhona. When you talk to her again you should get the option to trade your weapon to her.

The quest flags it with the green check mark in error after you first talk to her about the crystals---you haven't traded in the aspected crystals/zeta yet to get the astral/umbral set, which is when it should get the green check mark.

I switch to my second job MCH and don't have a zeta (since I had relinquished it earlier for nodes for my DRG), do I still have any advantage skipping the grind of Soul without Life? Or do I have no choice but farm for the luminous stuff? Coz the NPC at azys lla had a green check on her head and it confuses me..

I seem unable to complete the third quest. It says that I need 16 HQ mats and I can only seem to find them in the Market Board for about 10 million gil. In my year of playing I've only ever managed to make about 5 million gil total, so I don't know how to advance past this part of the quest.

What should I do?

Either get 10m gil to buy them, or find the mats and craft them? (or find people to craft them for you)

So I need to level up what? 3 gathering classes and 3 crafting classes in order to complete that quest?

That or spend an entire year of playtime saving up the 10 million?

An entire year of saving gil or leveling 6 classes should not be in the scope of this questline.

Unless you're advocating I contact a gold seller to get that gil? That's against the rules you know and I don't want my account banned.

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So I need to level up what? 3 gathering classes and 3 crafting classes in order to complete that quest?...

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The fact is you need level up 2 Alt to have all crafting specialist ..... ^^;

Can't finish Soul without life for dark knight... it shows a check mark but doesn't take any of my crystals

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I ran through the first Anima quest as a DRK with no problems. Accepted the second round quest for the DRK and again no problems. After I got my awoken DRK weap I decided to accept the first Anima quest for the NIN. This is where the problems arose, I spent over 3 hours trying to get the crystals this time and with no luck. I switched zones several times over the course of the period and again no luck. Im not sure if my luck is really that bad, which I doubt. Maybe going three hours and only finding three of them would be ok, but none? Im not entirely sure but I think that there might be something else going on here.

I was able to do my WHM quest line just fine... and it is now sitting on "Coming into Its Own." I then started my bard quest line, and got as far as "Toughening up." Unfortunately I cannot progress through that quest line because I was not given the animated Berimbau to equip in order to progress. I'm stumped as to what to do...

anyone got this problem solved yet?

23/2/2016 - Patch 3.2
- still no update regarding this issue

Please let npc named syndony in mordhona accept replica relic zeta so i can get my lost animated anima weapon.

i had the toughening up quest on bard but couldn't find the animated berimbau anywhere, so i abandoned the quest, now i cant even accept the quest from the npc without having the weapon, so i am not sure how to progress

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Also, the fact that the quests can be accepted again right after finishing them, on the same job that we just finished it, is not only confusing and misleading, but quite pointless as well.

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This is exactly what happened to me back in December when they finally introduced the 'New Relic' Quest chain. I had a Zeta on both White Mage and Summoner. I was confused by the lack of and repetition of quest markers and somehow ended up turning in both Zeta's to the npc upstairs and receiving 2 White Mage weapons and NO SMN weapon! I panicked and sent in a bug report asking them to fix it, received no response so continued doing White Mage quest chain hoping it would unlock the SMN quest chain. After 3 days and no response, I submitted another in game bug report, then sent in another after a week with no response. (cont..)

... Finally I got frustrated and tried deleting the second White Mage weapon to see if I would recieve my items from the lady upstairs in Revenants Toll.... I didn't.... and still no response. People assured me that SE knew of this issue and probably in a patch would fix it. Well its now March and the only response I received was when I finally submitted a 'Report Harassment' asking for my one time item replacement of my Summoner Zeta... and was answered that as it was longer then a week since the item was lost, they would not replace it.

To say that I was frustrated and fed up is an understatement.To say that my desire to play this game over this period of time has deteriorated to the point now where I no longer wish to pay the subscription for this neglect. I have been subbed for 2 years straight but I doubt I will be coming back when my time ends unless SE contacts me that its fixed.
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p.s I can purchase the Zeta replicas for both WHM and SMN which is PROOF I had 2 and now only have 1 of the 'new' relic weapons on my White Mage.:mad:

Why would you try to do the quest again on the same job when the game tells you that it's locked to the job you accept it on?

I was not trying to do the quest again on the same job, I was trying to get it on my SMN but I clicked too fast and ended up with 2 White Mage relic weapons.

Help! Last year I did MCH weapon and I have Armageddon. Before the latest patch, I picked up BLM relic quest. I was on Coming into its own. I have the four items to turn in for Lunaris Rod Awoken, but I abandoned the quest. When I got to Helix and talk to NPC, the only option is to pick up Finding Your Voice. I do not intend to do Finding Your Voice for MCH.

Why are the other steps not available? In previous relics in 2.0, you could work on different stages of the relics for different weapons. Why are we not able to do that now? Why am I not even able to complete the BLM relic now either that I started?

This is a horrible flaw and if it does not get repaired, I am done with relics.

They moved quests that you have already completed into a seperate option when talking to Ardashir because people kept getting confused about the fact that they could accept the same quest again after completing it. Please look through all options before you cry foul.

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They moved quests that you have already completed into a seperate option when talking to Ardashir because people kept getting confused about the fact that they could accept the same quest again after completing it. Please look through all options before you cry foul.

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OMG thank you! It wasn't clear from the options.

I've gotten to toughening up on my Bard, however I don't appear to have gotten the Animated Berimbau. I saw a few others had posted this issue and I was wondering if there ever was any resolution?

Are you sure you didn't do the previous quest on a different job and/or discarded the weapon?

I'm unable to undertake 'Soul Without Life' after completing the entire questline as WHM. I want to start it as WDM, but there isn't any option when speaking to Ardashir as RDM.

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I'm unable to undertake 'Soul Without Life' after completing the entire questline as WHM. I want to start it as WDM, but there isn't any option when speaking to Ardashir as RDM.

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You're trying to start a HW relic quest with a job that wasn't introduced until Stormblood. RDM doesn't have a HW relic.