Zodiac Weapons The Next Step. (Findings)

[Edeline]

I just crafted all the HQ 3 star items for all 4 quests with less than 2m gil (when a single HQ item cost 1,5m or so depending on your server). All left to do is grind dungeons for soldiery and seals D: This step was faster than I thought it would be.

[Vondoomervil]

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...factsfaqhowto/

[Shinun]

I just crafted all the HQ 3 star items for all 4 quests with less than 2m gil (when a single HQ item cost 1,5m or so depending on your server). All left to do is grind dungeons for soldiery and seals D: This step was faster than I thought it would be.

Jenova isn't so lucky I'm 4/8 done with around 300k spent. Finishing fishing Silver Sovereign HQs atm for rod since Jenova has no such thing as big fish market so I have to fish my own

[zandervont]

Jenova isn't so lucky I'm 4/8 done with around 300k spent. Finishing fishing Silver Sovereign HQs atm for rod since Jenova has no such thing as big fish market so I have to fish my own

glad im not alone. Over here there's maybe 1-3 fishers and i know one who's not gonna fish anymore :P.
currently im at 4/8 crafted items hq:ed, with needing belahdian silverx2 + the 2 fishes. 8/16 dungeon drops, 2/4 gc seal items and almost 2/4 sol items.. this is gonna be fun with doin fishing at the side.

[Electrowitch]

I think that the drop rate is far better than atma ever was. I hear things like 4-5 runs max for a drop. could it be a 10-15% drop rate??

Do you even Math?

[RyuDragnier]

I've read all of the requirements of this, and one thing irritates me all to hell. I'm fine with the RNG dungeons, and I am fine with buying the merchant items with Gil/Seals/Soldiery, but I am NOT fine with us now requiring to have desynth leveled or god awful amounts of money just to get a single item for the relic. The mats on my server alone are 2-6 mil each. 2-6 MILLION GIL EACH. For those of us who aren't rich or have leveled crafters, this quest is near-impossible for us.

[Nep_Nep]

I've read all of the requirements of this, and one thing irritates me all to hell. I'm fine with the RNG dungeons, and I am fine with buying the merchant items with Gil/Seals/Soldiery, but I am NOT fine with us now requiring to have desynth leveled or god awful amounts of money just to get a single item for the relic. The mats on my server alone are 2-6 mil each. 2-6 MILLION GIL EACH. For those of us who aren't rich or have leveled crafters, this quest is near-impossible for us.

I agree. Honestly the dungeons and buying using seals and solidery aren't so bad(but still bad. At least the dungeons). But each mat is over a million gil and will probably skyrocket soon. It feels almost impossible at least for me to get this now.

[Edeline]

Bronze Lake Crystal is from the vendor npc in Upper La Noscea, where you take the ferry (26, 26) for 100k gil.
Brass Kettle is from the vendor in North Shroud (29,19) for 100k gil.
Sacred Spring Water is from soldiery npc (Others) for 1600 tomes.
Bombard Core is from GC vendor for 20k seals
Flawless Alexandrite is from the quest [A Treasured Mother] given by Brangwine in Mor Dhona (asks you to bring a bombard core, sacred spring water and brass kettle).

(will edit post as I get to do more stuff).

I guess is this pointless after that reddit post :d

[Shinun]

I've read all of the requirements of this, and one thing irritates me all to hell. I'm fine with the RNG dungeons, and I am fine with buying the merchant items with Gil/Seals/Soldiery, but I am NOT fine with us now requiring to have desynth leveled or god awful amounts of money just to get a single item for the relic. The mats on my server alone are 2-6 mil each. 2-6 MILLION GIL EACH. For those of us who aren't rich or have leveled crafters, this quest is near-impossible for us.

I don't understand what is expensive. All the Aged desynth items are 3k each, and their desynth rate is high and only requires ~55-60 desynth to get a good rate. Pumice/Cypress/Big Fish are only items I can see being anything costly but even then ~30-60k for HQ mats and a few hundred k to a mil or so for Big Fish

[RyuDragnier]

I don't understand what is expensive. All the Aged desynth items are 3k each, and their desynth rate is high and only requires ~55-60 desynth to get a good rate. Pumice/Cypress/Big Fish are only items I can see being anything costly but even then ~30-60k for HQ mats and a few hundred k to a mil or so for Big Fish

I only have one crafter above level 30, and that is my GSM, which is level 50. I have to level all the other crafters to at least 30, then desynth numerous times just to get high enough to desynth one of those 3k items. Then if I'm lucky I'll get the desynth perfect, otherwise the desynth level goes down and I have to raise it again. This is a problem for those of us who wanted to BATTLE, not craft all the time.

I've met more than a few people who don't like crafting (I'm one of them), who have not touched it much or leveled it higher than level 15, and now we're being forced to do it. You should not have to have 100%'d the game and leveled everything to max just for a weapon FOR ONE BATTLE CLASS that has an ilvl weaker than the Final Coil weapons. You do less work just running through Coil.