Thread: Next relic update in 2.38.

Originally Posted by Zumi

You need a weapon for doing coil which is why I did relic. Saying you should drop your relic and get HA isn't right at all. I killed T9 many times and it hasn't dropped. You can't just go in and get HA its very much left up to RNG its a 1 in 9 chance once a week. Odds are high you might not even get your weapon before 2.4 is out. 2 people in my FC never saw their weapon drop from T5 before 2nd coil was out. We are having way worse luck with T9 so many of the same weapons keep droping.

Going to be 1 out of 10 come October so I will most definitely do relic lol. I beat coil 9 twice (still young) War and PLD weapons drop. Knowing my luck I probably won't see the Scholar book because I beat T5 plenty of times and haven't seen it once. So it might be the same

For all the grinding I did for the other upgrades they should just give it to me and I make no apologies for that train of thought.

Originally Posted by Umisame

Can you do daily quest for alexandrite without having animus weapon? I got atma weapon but i can't get map from auriana and i can't start daily quest for it. I got 2/9 books and i really don't want to finish it, just want to farm alex for ninja weapon.

can buy alex with hunt seal

Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford

I didn't say clear any of the BCB - I simply said the extreme primals. I'd consider the extreme primals to be the current "intermediate' difficulty content available in ARR. You can still leech victories on all of the extreme primals.

Except for Titan.

I hate Titan. >

Originally Posted by Alukah

BiS for a couple weeks.

Though being honest I do hope it is related to appearance, I want to get rid of that stupid antenna from the smn book.

WHAT!? I love the antenna! maybe if during the "charging of the spell" phase of our casts it would have a "sucking aether from your surroundings" animation, which is what I think is supposed to be the intent of the little doodad.

Originally Posted by melflomil

Going to be 1 out of 10 come October so I will most definitely do relic lol. I beat coil 9 twice (still young) War and PLD weapons drop. Knowing my luck I probably won't see the Scholar book because I beat T5 plenty of times and haven't seen it once. So it might be the same

I was ignoring the relic at first, doing the alexandrite farm veeery casually. Then after 12+ T9 clears and no scholar books (and me still using a level 100 weapon, 'cause I don't like the soldiery book) I decided to rush and complete my Novus in order to have at least a decent weapon for the future update. I wish SQUEX gave a token instead of a direct drop for T9 weapons. My team has 2 players with 3 weapons and 3 players with no weapon at all. We got 5x blackmage staffs, 2x axes, 2x spears, 1x bow, 2x monk weapons (with no monks in our static).

So 4 out of 8 players are still missing their mainjob weapon (Paladin, Scholar, Summoner, White Mage).

RANT RANT RANT RANT

I will finish coil for completion sake, but I won't farm it. No point. Work on relic line, which will keep upgrading, and just update gear every 20 iLv or so and its enough to do all content. until they hit a level cap that is actually going to last a while, not much point in wasting time trying to have all BiS just for it to be outdated every couple months.

Originally Posted by StateAlchemist

I will finish coil for completion sake, but I won't farm it. No point. Work on relic line, which will keep upgrading, and just update gear every 20 iLv or so and its enough to do all content. until they hit a level cap that is actually going to last a while, not much point in wasting time trying to have all BiS just for it to be outdated every couple months.

Coil give many other loots as well. Why not? Daily clears are pretty much a 1-1.5hr kind of thing depending on how much derps happen.

Originally Posted by Ooshima

The Zodiak weapon questline has always got to do with something that have a meaning and relation to weapon enhancement
=> Atma upgrade requires you to slay crap load of monsters from fates to obtain 12 essences to enhance the weapons
=> Animus upgrade requires you to refer to ancient records and attempt to perform similar deeds done by the Zodiac twelves, which is killing similar monsters the twelves have slayed.
=> In Novus questline, the NPC told you that your weapon is very much powered up and the only way forward is to use a special method of materia infusion using a sphere scroll, and light bending Alexndrite, harnessing the power of battle-class materias into the weapon.

What would the next step be? I don't think it is Demi-materia because it is totally about crafting. Novus make use of materia but they are battle-class materias, different from demi-materia which have no meaning in battle terms.

I can't really tell what is the next most sensible story to the next upgrade, but there is certainly one that made sense story-wise but would be quite a hell to do.
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Spiritbond your Novus weapon to 100% - creating such a strong bond with your weapon that is essential to further its growth.

And guess what? IL110 gears only spiritbind in SCoB.

GGWP if this is what comes next.

I made my Novus the week right before Patch 2.3 and so far it is only 28% spiritbonded

Self quote because I was excited that my crystal ball was accurate

Originally Posted by Ooshima

Self quote because I was excited that my crystal ball was accurate

Don't pat yourself on the back too hard yet. This 'Soul Attunement' may sound similar, but it is not the same as Spiritbinding. The existence of the Zodiac Glass confirms that much at least.
I might give your Crystal Ball 75% accuracy, because I'd guarantee that a person can get Nexus without setting foot in second coil. Soul Attunement may not even be measured in %. Too early to tell.

Or it could be the exact same thing as Spiritbinding, except allowing credit from activities lower than what would give credit for Spiritbind progress, and they added the Zodiac Glass just to 'distinguish' the feature unnecessarily.