FAQ: Zoadiac Weapons & You

[Vid]

If you are completing the FATEs stated in the books, please remember you must get gold medal or else it will not consider you completed that FATE. I got silver medal and is not recorded.

Ty for this information, added it to the guide.

[TomTom1968]

I can add to the questions listed in the opening posting:

Q: Do I need a Gold Rating, or will Silver and Bronze Ratings give me the Atma as well?

I got an Atma with Bronze, landing merely 3 hits just before the FATE was over so participation is enough just like with the beastmen FATES

Q: I have multiple classes with Zenith Weapons, will I have to be on the job that started the original quest, or can I choose which one to upgrade? i.e. If I started the quest on White Mage, but want to upgrade my Bard Zenith Weapon instead, can I do it?

I started the quest as BLM but got annoyed from doing Low Level FATES with him so I switched to BRD and got 3 Atmas since this. So it doesn't matter at all, even on your first quest run. And I can only recommend BRD, he is KING of FATES.

[Vid]

I can add to the questions listed in the opening posting:

Q: Do I need a Gold Rating, or will Silver and Bronze Ratings give me the Atma as well?

I got an Atma with Bronze, landing merely 3 hits just before the FATE was over so participation is enough just like with the beastmen FATES

Q: I have multiple classes with Zenith Weapons, will I have to be on the job that started the original quest, or can I choose which one to upgrade? i.e. If I started the quest on White Mage, but want to upgrade my Bard Zenith Weapon instead, can I do it?

I started the quest as BLM but got annoyed from doing Low Level FATES with him so I switched to BRD and got 3 Atmas since this. So it doesn't matter at all, even on your first quest run. And I can only recommend BRD, he is KING of FATES.

Ty TomTom, although the 2nd question was already answered, but still good info. The answer you gave to the 2nd question though is more toward a previous question put in the FAQ higher up. This particular question asked about upgrading weapons once you collect all 12 atma, not actually obtaining them with a different weapon. Basically once you have all 12, you can decide which weapon you want to upgrade, regardless if you started the quest on a different Job.

[ForteXX]

You might want to change the wording on that some. This is not a quest, it has a quest that comes before, and a quest that causes the upgrade. Part of why it's not locked to a job, you didn't accept it as a certain one for it to lock onto.

[Purrfectstorm]

It's taken me 1, 3, 4, 15, 27, 30, 30, 42, and 67 fates to get my 1st 9 Atma. I did get a few silver and bronze but all my drops so far have been on gold. I know this is a small sample size but thought I'd contribute it in case anyone is trying to figure out the drop rate.

[Purrfectstorm]

It's taken me 1, 3, 4, 15, 27, 30, 30, 42, and 67 fates to get my 1st 9 Atma. I did get a few silver and bronze but all my drops so far have been on gold. I know this is a small sample size but thought I'd contribute it in case anyone is trying to figure out the drop rate.

Just an update, the last 3 Atma took me 7, 27, and 119 fates. That's 372 fates or about 1 in 31 fates. Some people in my FC are speculating the drop rate is 2.5% which means I was a little lucky but not exceptionally so. I did this for about 3 days and it kind of made me a little nuts but I don't think a drop rate like this is too bad if the grinding had been spread out a bit more (easily grind 30-40 fates a day and get all your Atma in a week and a half). I think what drives people crazy is the need to have all the Atma right now. I understand the urge (pushing myself to put off sleep for just one more fate lol) but you might save your sanity to take it slower

[ceiimq]

Question from me: do you also get the Weapon Power increase from a book? Or does it come for free once you've completed all 9 books?

[Vid]

Question from me: do you also get the Weapon Power increase from a book? Or does it come for free once you've completed all 9 books?

Good question, anyone whose completed the books able to shed some light on this? I'm not that far into the quest myself (4 more atma to collect), but from what people have said, the books only add to stats and not to Weapon Power/Damage. So would assume when you finally do complete all the books it would increase its Weapon Power. Could be wrong though. Anyone currently doing the books care to chyme in?

[Xzyst]

I've upgraded 2 books so far, no dmg increase to weapon, still seems to be a debate over whether you can do 4 books or 9 books this patch...cant find a confirmed answer to that yet...some people say there is a Monk on Japanese server that already got 9 books...any confirmation on this would be much appreciated...otherwise ill let you guys know by the end of the weekend lol

[Vid]

I've upgraded 2 books so far, no dmg increase to weapon, still seems to be a debate over whether you can do 4 books or 9 books this patch...cant find a confirmed answer to that yet...some people say there is a Monk on Japanese server that already got 9 books...any confirmation on this would be much appreciated...otherwise ill let you guys know by the end of the weekend lol

I've seen people with upgraded shields for the paladin set, but I know that takes far fewer books. I hope you can complete all 9 books this patch. After all it's only ilvl 100 you are upgrading to, and supposedly the next big patch will increase that to 110 and make the stats customizable. Although this leads to more questions, if they do in fact make it customizable, will you have to grind more books to switch around your stats?