Lightning FATE weapons

[Maero]

The weapons can all be done with the 1st quest, rather with the fate where Lightning appears in Middle and Western La Noscea. All you need is to collect the "Otherwordly Parcel" that you receive as a reward, and trade them in for the weapon of choice. There are no other requirements.

It is the costume that probably requires all the quests to be done to acquire all the pieces.

Great, thanks
Now which weapon to decide .....

[CalvatE]

Great, thanks
Now which weapon to decide .....

When you've finished the quest you can still go back and do the same Lightning FATE's and you'll receive 2 Otherworldy parcels.

So you can get every FFXIII weapon before the next quest chain even starts.

If you were around for the Summer Bomb event, remember doing those all the time and how you then wound up with like 999 Wet Bombard ash? Same thing applies for Lightning FATE, except with Otherworldy Parcels. You can stack them to 99 if you wanted to stick around to do them.

You don't need to even start the quest to receive Otherworldy parcels because the reward is tied to the FATE itself.