Radiant weapons already?

[yajnaji]

How do some people already have radiant weapons? I did all raids since first week and I only have 5 unsung blades. Do you get any extra by doing savage or something?

What am I missing?

[Azuri]

Second Savage fight drops a guaranteed tomestone.

[yajnaji]

Got it, thank you.

[Packetdancer]

How do some people already have radiant weapons? I did all raids since first week and I only have 5 unsung blades. Do you get any extra by doing savage or something?

What am I missing?

As noted, P2S drops a Discal Tomestone; if you win the roll on that, you can get a Radiant weapon immediately without using any Unsung blades.

For any given Savage fight, you get one book token per week (Asphodelos Mythos, right now) guaranteed for your first clear. If you have 8 people who haven't cleared the fight yet that week, you get two chests at the end. If 1-4 people have cleared, you get one chest. If 5+ people have cleared, no chests (and just a page, if you don't already have yours for the week). Regardless of anything else, you only get to roll on gear for your first clear of the week. So if you don't win anything, you can't just hop back in and try to roll again at the end.

So, the loot pattern generally goes:

First Floor
Raid accessories (Earring, Necklace, Bracelet, Ring)

Second Floor
Raid lesser left-side (Head, Hand, Foot)
Tome accessory upgrade material (i.e., what right now turns Radiant accessories into Augmented Radiant accessories)
Weapon tomestone (whatever you'd normally trade 7 of the normal-mode weekly blade tokens for, right now the Discal Tomestone)

Third Floor
Tome gear upgrade material (what turns Radiant head/chest/hand/leg/foot gear into Augmented Radiant)
Tome weapon upgrade material (what turns a Radiant weapon into the Augmented Radiant weapon)
Raid lesser left-side gear (Head, Hand, Foot)
Raid legs

Fourth Floor
Raid chest piece
Raid weapon
Mount

...thus, hypothetically, if you won the Discal Tomestone in P2S and the Radiant Roborant (to upgrade the Radiant weapon) in P3S in the first week, you could have an i600 Augmented Radiant weapon almost immediately. (You would be forced to wait until the second week to have enough Astronomy tomes to get the Radiant weapon, though.)

[yajnaji]

As noted, P2S drops a Discal Tomestone; if you win the roll on that, you can get a Radiant weapon immediately without using any Unsung blades.

For any given Savage fight, you get one book token per week (Asphodelos Mythos, right now) guaranteed for your first clear. If you have 8 people who haven't cleared the fight yet that week, you get two chests at the end. If 1-4 people have cleared, you get one chest. If 5+ people have cleared, no chests (and just a page, if you don't already have yours for the week). Regardless of anything else, you only get to roll on gear for your first clear of the week. So if you don't win anything, you can't just hop back in and try to roll again at the end.

So, the loot pattern generally goes:

First Floor
Raid accessories (Earring, Necklace, Bracelet, Ring)

Second Floor
Raid lesser left-side (Head, Hand, Foot)
Tome accessory upgrade material (i.e., what right now turns Radiant accessories into Augmented Radiant accessories)
Weapon tomestone (whatever you'd normally trade 7 of the normal-mode weekly blade tokens for, right now the Discal Tomestone)

Third Floor
Tome gear upgrade material (what turns Radiant head/chest/hand/leg/foot gear into Augmented Radiant)
Tome weapon upgrade material (what turns a Radiant weapon into the Augmented Radiant weapon)
Raid lesser left-side gear (Head, Hand, Foot)
Raid legs

Fourth Floor
Raid chest piece
Raid weapon
Mount

...thus, hypothetically, if you won the Discal Tomestone in P2S and the Radiant Roborant (to upgrade the Radiant weapon) in P3S in the first week, you could have an i600 Augmented Radiant weapon almost immediately. (You would be forced to wait until the second week to have enough Astronomy tomes to get the Radiant weapon, though.)

I said I got it, didn't ask for a lecture.

[Chie_M]

I said I got it, didn't ask for a lecture.

Lmao. I for one appreciate the explanation.

[LianaThorne]

I said I got it, didn't ask for a lecture.

Imagine getting mad at someone for answering your question.

[Packetdancer]

I said I got it, didn't ask for a lecture.

It wasn't intended as a lecture; I apologize if it somehow came across as such.

(Plus, when I started writing that post, your reply saying you got it was not actually in the thread yet for me to have seen, as it was posted -- according to the timestamp -- 9 minutes before I hit 'Post' on my reply. Which took me roughly 15 minutes to write because I went to double-check that I was remembering the drops correctly.)

Either way, it was offered in the spirit of "here is information the OP might want, and which could be useful to have for posterity." Because this thread now exists and such threads can turn up when someone uses the forum's search engine -- or Google searches 'ffxiv how radiant weapon so fast' or whatnot -- and I figured it might as well have an explanation already here when they show up having clicked on the search result.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Driavna]

I said I got it, didn't ask for a lecture.

You are not the only one that will read this topic and that extra information can be useful for someone else.

[Rongway]

I apologize

You did nothing wrong.