If we use a zeta to upgrade our anima will we lose it?

[Saccharin]

I was wrong. Seems I had too much faith in SE. Well it's now gone completely.

[LineageRazor]

The relic is consumed. However, I'm not even remotely concerned by this; the ilvl 135 relic is nothing more than a piece of glamour gear now, just like any piece of equipment that is not best-in-slot. That's just how this game works. SE provided replicas that provide the same glamour purposes. On my level 60 PLD, the ilvl 135 Zeta is identical in function to the ilvl 1 Zeta Replica; I would not use either in actual combat, and any weapon glamoured by either proves that I once owned the weapon so even the whole epeen aspect is covered.

Totally worth it, imo - the first stage that you skip? FATE grinding. LOTS of FATE grinding. You need three drops from FATEs in each of the Heavensward zones (six zones times three crystals for a total of eighteen). Even if SE was kind enough to provide them at the boosted rate that Atmas drop for the old Relic (and I highly doubt they're that kind), that's still a grind I'm happy to skip.

The second stage upgrade involves rehashing pre-Heavensward dungeons (again). I'm not sure yet what's to follow, but there are a lot of wierd items that were added this update; they may have some part in the process.

[Bebekurenai]

Update:

The option to get a replica off the zodiac zeta is now available. The zeta will be lost upon trading it in for the first stage of anima, but you can now safely get the replica before the hand-in.

[NormaBates]

I trusted that I would be safe to proceed with allowing the quest to destroy my Zeta. Shortly after doing so, I made my way to North Shroud only to discover I didn't have the option when speaking to Drake. I pulled up reddit and found out the reason I didn't have that option is because there is quest that MUST be completed with your Zeta. The patch notes failed to give this information. SE should take responsibility for their negligence and provide those who found this out the hard way with a replacement relic or implement some other type of fix. They have no problem posting in previous patch notes which quest would be needed in order to move forward. So why skip it this time? SO If you have a Zeta make sure you go to North Shroud and confirm you completed the quest 'The Vital Title' before you do anything

[melisande]

From the patch notes:
"Replicas of each of the Zodiac Weapons Zeta can be obtained in the North Shroud (X:30 Y:20) from the NPC Drake."
"Players in possession of a Zodiac Weapon Zeta may exchange this weapon for items required to progress through a certain quest. Although the Zodiac Weapon Zeta will be lost upon exchanging it, players may purchase replicas should they choose to preserve its appearance via glamours."

[NormaBates]

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[LineageRazor]

Another update:

Greetings,

We've confirmed that there are instances where you are unable to purchase a replica weapon even if you possess (or possessed) a Zeta weapon. We're currently looking into a fix to address this.

We apologize for the inconvenience while we work to address this.

So there is currently a bug that prevents you from getting a replica - but this is TEMPORARY. If you have ever owned a Zeta relic, you will be able to get these replicas eventually, once they patch the bug.

[Kaneki]

Hopefully they give us the actual Zeta so we can complete that "Vital Title". It'd suck to have to do a whole new relic again just for that achievement.

[Ashkendor]

Not the issue. The issue is scraping millions of gil and hundreds of hours of work for nothing.

If it needs a crap tone of stupid expensive mats that turning in the weapon will give out for free then I may still go with it.

I mean, realistically speaking those millions of gil and hundreds of hours of work dropped sharply in value when the expansion was released and they became utterly worthless pretty fast as far as being actual equipment. Suddenly, a level 57 green dungeon drop is better than relic Zeta. Good for leveling but not much else. I dunno about you, but the Zetas for the classes I have at 60 were just sitting in my storage taking up space. The only reason I even kept them was because I used them for glamour (a purpose that the replica fulfills) and because we were told that we'd get to jump ahead a step in the new relic quest with them.

[BristolRuss]

The patch notes failed to give this information. SE should take responsibility for their negligence and provide those who found this out the hard way with a replacement relic or implement some other type of fix. They have no problem posting in previous patch notes which quest would be needed in order to move forward. So why skip it this time?

Well, to be fair, when the replica's were launched back in 3.0 it did mention what you needed to do. From 3.0's patch notes:

"[2.0] Players can now purchase replica Zodiac Weapons from Drake in the North Shroud (X:30 Y:20).
After completing the quest "The Vital Title" players can speak with Drake to purchase replicas of any Zodiac Weapon they have already acquired."