How do I start my 2nd Zodiac Weapon

[Kynaar]

As the title says I did the PLD some time ago and I'm trying to start up the BRD one now but all Gerolt has is this Kettle to the Mettle one and Jalzahn has the quest for going down the next steps of your weapon progression.

[Hasrat]

Gerolt has all the starting quests. Might be you'll have to finish off Kettle to the Mettle first, as it is, in a sense, the final quest in the initial chain.

[Iscah]

I think you just need to talk to him while set to the job you want the relic for.

[Alpheus]

Gerolt has all the starting quests. Might be you'll have to finish off Kettle to the Mettle first, as it is, in a sense, the final quest in the initial chain.

Fwiw but just to be clear, for posterity's sake, that completing Kettle to the Mettle itself is not required, Kettle to the mettle does block one of the quests but you only need to begin kettle to the mettle, you don't need it completed as I've made a number of 2.0 weapons and have never done Kettle to the Mettle to completion. But I do recall having started it and dismissing it from my quest journal multiple times over the years. So it definitely blocks something to do with the ARR relic quest chain but it doesn't need to be completed just flagged in progress.

[Hasrat]

Fwiw but just to be clear, for posterity's sake, that completing Kettle to the Mettle is is not required, Kettle to the mettle does block one of the quests but you only need to begin kettle to the mettle, you don't need it completed as I've made a number of 2.0 weapons and have never done Kettle to the Mettle to completion. But I do recall having started it and dismissing it from my quest journal multiple times over the years. So it definitely blocks something to do with the ARR relic quest chain but it doesn't need to be completed just flagged in progress.

Also makes sense. I kinda suspected it'd be a case of "I have other quests that you can't see because this one is up." But you're right, more accurate to say it doesn't strictly need finished, but picking it up does allow the game to show the other quests. I'm guessing, anyway.

[Kynaar]

I feel stupid reason why I couldnt get Gerolt to talk to me was because I had the starting quest for BRD's already and just kept missing it in the mission journal when I would check it. Found that out yesterday :-)

[dspguy]

Good thing is - once you did one ARR, you can buy whatever you need for a future relic early. Tomestones, GC seals, alexandrite maps - you can start earning these whenever you want and just stockpile them all.