FAQ: Zoadiac Weapons & You

[Talon_Luna]

Hey guys,

I don't post here much, but I figured I'd post what I know.
I have just completed the Bravura Animus as of yesterday.

The four books they speak about are directly relate to the first round of upgrades available to your weapon on the Main and Secondary Stats: [STR, DEX, MND, INT], VIT, [Skill Speed, Parry, Accuracy, Critical Hit, etc.]x2
There is no book for Weapon Damage at all and that only comes when you upgrade to the Animus itself.

There are 9 books in total to cap out your Relic in stats to allow it to be upgraded. These, in total, will cost 13.5k Mythology.
Each Book requires you to kill: 100 enemies in various locations, successfully complete (failure does not count) 3 FATEs, 3 Leve quests (they can be GC leves), 3 dungeon bosses
No NEW stats can be added to your relic at all. If the original, base relic did not have the stat then you cannot do a book to upgrade it.
Each book will permanently add +2 to the stat to cap out at the Animus weapons shown value (Bravura has a +1 Parry book, which kind of breaks this rule). Once the book is completed the stat change occurs.

Completing a book will give you a huge notification. After you have done so, go back to the girl in Mor Dhona and she'll toss it in the fire for you. Please make sure it is done as you will have it removed and all progress lost.
When all 9 books are complete you return to the Alchemist guy up near Gerolt at Fallguard Float and trade it in to him via the menu to get the weapon and the achievement.
The Item level for the final Animus remains at ilvl100.
The glow effect on the Animus weapon is an upgraded version of the Zenith glow and A LOT more powerful... It's really bright.

If you wish to get a SECOND weapon upgraded, you will have to repeat the entire process again.
Most of this has likely been posted, albeit, scattered amongst this page already, but this is how it works! So any speculation you thought you had... there you have it.
Also, I believe Yoshi did state that the Relic quest (Zodiak Weapons now) will continue via 2.25, as someone has mentioned. I personally assume we will hit ilvl110 with that portion of the quest and it would require another 13.5k Myth to do a similar/same process.