I lost all my progress, what now?

[Crabemporium]

Yeah, okay that's weird. To clear things up, Drake says that I need the Zodiac Weapon Zeta in order to access the shop.
The fact that you're able to without needing the Zeta is odd, though.
I'll see how I go with getting my items back, then I'll go through the steps to get a Anima weapon. Hopefully once I have one, I'll be able to buy Zodiac Replicas again.

Nnnnnnnnnnnope! As it turns out they need more evidence. I sent them all the information the support desk needed, Is the fact that I have the achievements not enough evidence for them, or did the endless backlog of RMT bots that I had to wade through as I was crafting the weapons clog up the chat log and push the messages far beyond the time limit?

So I guess my only chance now is to make a Anima weapon and hope that SE had the foresight to let me get access to the shop again. If not, completionism is going to irk me to re-make each and every single one of them and it may be healthier for me if I just left ff14.

[SannaR]

The ARR relics, like much of ARR, are a bit… janky. All of the other expansions use Achievements to track what you've completed and thus what the replica vendors should offer to you.

For ARR, you need to have the completed Zeta in your inventory, or you need to have turned in the completed Zeta for the first step of the HW (Anima) relic.

I'd be surprised if completing an Anima w/o turning in a Zeta somehow unlocks the Zeta replicas.

That's the thing though you don't have to use your Zeta for the 1st step of making an Anima. It's an optional choice. I remember that some chose to do the fate grind because they wanted to keep the non replica version. Even if it meant they would be grumbling about having to do so.