FAQ: Zoadiac Weapons & You

[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.

[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?

[Nekodar]

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?

You can complete all 9 books this patch. There's even players that have done that... (at least one, saw pic on reddit of user with Sphairai Animus)

[Lilymoon]

Someone on the lodestone posted a picture of the BLM Animus so it's been done already and possible to complete now. The text just words it in a very odd way and I'm not sure why yet. Also the stats you gain from the books are what stats are already on the weapons. The bow has 3 dex books, 3 vit books, 2 acc and 1 skill speed.

I posted some quick screenshots of the pages of the book as well http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../blog/1046305/
Not entirely sure if they all have the same exact format but that one gave me 100 enemies to kill, 3 dungeons with the final bosses being the target (one of which was lvl 50), 3 leves (2 were company ones, one maelstrom and one twin adder so look carefully when tracking these down) and 3 fates.

[Shirai]

You can complete all 9 books this patch. There's even players that have done that... (at least one, saw pic on reddit of user with Sphairai Animus)

Indeed, which brings me to believe that the system message about the 4 available trials means that you can currently only upgrade the 4 primary stats of your weapon and that perhaps later on you will be able to add or change to custom stats.
For now, that's only speculation though.

[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.

[Doki]

I'm wondering if they won't go full evil in 2.25 and make the last 3 books cost soldiery tomes.