Can't find the old ARR replicas from Drake despite finishing Zeta

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I can't seem to find the old relic Novus or Nexus replicas from Drake despite finishing Zeta. Also, strangely, although I have finished both Zeta for PLD and WHM, ONLY PLD Zeta is available from Drake. Can someone please offer some help? [PROBLEM RESOLVED ON 6th DEC 2020. Please see my post below.]


- Only Zeta replicas are available.


- Only PLD Zeta but not WHM Zeta is available.

[Liam_Harper]

Are there any additional quests to complete? I seem to recall there was an additional one that unlocked Replica's after you got the Zeta, the Vital Title or something like that. Might be worth equipping your WhM Zeta and having a look around for extra quests.

[Deceptus]

After completing the relic, you have to give it up and turn it in to him. That allows you to get replicas.

Vital Title sounded right.

[swiss_Momo]

irc you need to have the weapons in your inventory for Drake to offer you their replications, unless you exchanged the Zeta for the luminous(?) crystals to skip the first Anima weapon step

[Caimie_Tsukino]

Thank you, everyone. I just got my problem resolved. There are a few issues involved. I will walk through them 1 by 1 below.

Although I freshly acquired my Nirvana Zeta, I glamored my current weapon (i500 resistance weapon) with it, and left the real Nirvana Zeta in my retainer. So previously, I walked up to Drake without the actual weapon in my inventory, which resulted in no choice of creating Nirvana Zeta replica. When I took the Zeta back from my retainer, the choice of "Replicate Nirvana Zeta" appeared as shown below:


Thus, swiss_Momo was right that I needed the actual weapon in my inventory in order for Drake to offer replicas. I then clicked onto the choice, and this suddenly appeared:


So basically, the choice of "Replicate Nirvana Zeta" DECEIVED ME! It wasn't just for the Zeta, but it actually opens up all the Thyrus replicas too. The fact is, despite me having my Aettir Lux (Heavensward Anima weapon for PLD), I never created any replica from my PLD Excalibur Zeta. So I never clicked that choice of "Replicate Excalibur Zeta", and so I never realized that it could open up the many choices for me to replicate the Curtanas! And by chance, I had always been keeping my Excalibur Zeta in my inventory, and so I've always had this choice of "Replicate Excalibur Zeta" from Drake.


All the above of course needed me to be holding onto the real Zeta in order to access the "Replicate" choices. But if I had given up ANY Zeta, then it would have opened up the "Vital Title" quest for me, and that quest will be needed to access the lost choices of "replicate" again. Anyway, so for my case, since I actually possess both Sindri Lux (WHM Anima weapon) and Aettir Lux (PLD Anima weapon), I don't need to give up my real Zetas, and so I should just make sure I carry the real thing to Drake if I want to replicate any of the Novus or Nexus weapons.

Thank you everyone for the kind investigation of this matter. It had been quite tricky for me, and I'm glad it's finally resolved... and I can finally replicate not just my Thyrus Nexus, but also the Curtana Nexus as well.

[DeimosDancharl]

Just to add on, you can still turn your weapons in and Drake will offer all the replicas for your Zeta weapons and previous steps, even if you have your Heavensward relics in various states.

In Mor Dhona you can turn in all your Zeta relics to Syndony for the Astral/Umbral nodules. (She's on the roof at a table) Once she "desynths" the Zeta weapons, all the relic replicas show up at Drake for each weapon she processed.

If Syndony is not an option to turn in weapons, start the quest Soul without Life from Ardashir in Azys Lla (doesn't matter what job).

You'll go to Mor Dhona and talk to Rowena and then Syndony on the roof.

You can turn in all your weapons all at once. No need to repeat the quest.