A Relic Reborn Walkthrough

[Magnesium02]

Does anybody know if you can use a high quality base weapons for the 2x materia melded weapon part?

I do not know. When doing Class quests for crafting/gathering classes it only counts it if you have the correct quality status, so HQ may not work, but then for tradecraft leves, you can use HQ items as turn ins. But with the relic quest, you actually lose the melded weapon as it gets 'absorbed' so to speak into the creation of the relic weapon. Making/buying a HQ weapon would probably only add an unessesary expense to something that the end result will be the same. Melding is very different to 1.0, so HQing doesn't effect melding success.

I somehow feel that the people in progress but incomplete from 1.0 are the most screwed. They've gone through the tediousness of hamlets, speed runs, faction leves but do not benefit from the simplifications of the early part of the new quest. The latter parts of the new quests seems annoying with the completing with X job and buying tombstones.

Very much so. But then there are those people who actually went through and completed the relic quest fully in 1.0. They kind of have both sides of it. They have the frustration that what they went through is now so easy, but also the pride in that they were able to accomplish it when it was a lot ... lot .... lot harder.

And if anyone new is wondering HERE is the guide to making a relic in 1.0. Be thankful you don't have spend millions of gill just on materia and have dozens of failed melds that lost you all the materia and the item (took me 8 melds and something like 25million), you don't have to train like mad to get 17 minute perfect clears of dungeons, you don't have to spiritbond and do a difficult faction leve with a useless weapon with close to no stats at all, and you don't have to learn how to play dragoon from scratch just to clear Ifrit Extreme. Don't get me wrong, it was fun to be challenged in such a way, but boy do we have it easy now in comparison.

[Auri]

You can get the parts for the crafted weapons from tradecraft leves too.



Some of the rare armor pieces that use to come from NMs are from them too, like Mossy horn, Which is actually the reward for the Armorer leve i have in that picture.

Also, the leve givin me the bloody lance head is one that can be turned in 3 times, so now I has 3 of them ^^ Coincidently, so was the armorer one, so I got 3 Mossy horns out of it.

I can second that the parts can come from level 45 tradecraft leves - my other half has had Bloody Bardiche Head multiple times from handing in HQ items on the Limsa Level 45 BSM leve "No Returns, only Exchanges"

[Namko]

Dhorme Chimera is killing me. I attempted it last night for 4 hours straight with PUGs. I was on PLD, kept hate, rotated def buffs, dodged front cone attack. All except one WHM throughout the entire evening were just not able to dodge the ice circle attack. I had the camera fully zoomed out to watch it over and over. Is this normal??

Watched Flash Gordon's video and the ranged members were further back while a PLD OT stunned voices. We had all members on hind legs, in between tail whip area and side attack. It's a bit unclear as the WAR is taking the video. Question is, would alternating Shield Bash and Spirits Within for every voice move prevent resists? OR are we better off with 2xBRD stuns?

It's really frustrating because it's not really that hard, I wonder if people have bad latency/lag because of the current server configuration or they just don't look for the red area on the floor?

[MrADC]

First things, thank you to everyone who contributes to this thread. I admit I have a bad habit of only checking the forums when I not playing, like when I'm locked out or at work, so if I don't update the first post in a timely manner that is why XD.

Thank you pretty kitty for keeping up with this. I know how busy it can be know, since I rarely visit the forums during times I can play as well.

And thanks to all who contributed information to this, from other forums, to the posts in this thread. Seeing the community come together for a common cause is a beautiful thing. ^^

[Zoalord]

hey guys i have got a question,

i am currently up to Obtain Alumina salt from dhorme chimera at the weeping saint,

i have joint a group and we have defeated chimera, but it seems like i didnt get alumina salt, is it 100% drop?

or do i have to go kill it as the job that activated the quest....?

[Codex]

Yes. If you know what class you are going to relic, you can obtain the weapon and get it melded in advance. You can also work on saving up tomestones for step 15

Thanks! Any idea if I can do the Chimera, Amdapor Keep, and Primals parts too, or does the quest have to be logged to get the drops?

Also curious about the HQ weapon. That's what I've got currently, but I'm not sure if it'll work. Any insight?

[glim]

where do I get a golden ink? I have the bloody book and 2x savage materia III

[Eronn]

Thanks! Any idea if I can do the Chimera, Amdapor Keep, and Primals parts too, or does the quest have to be logged to get the drops?

Also curious about the HQ weapon. That's what I've got currently, but I'm not sure if it'll work. Any insight?

The Chimera, Keep, Hydra, and Primals must be killed in order while on the proper step of the quest.

[Doublestep]

hey guys i have got a question,

i am currently up to Obtain Alumina salt from dhorme chimera at the weeping saint,

i have joint a group and we have defeated chimera, but it seems like i didnt get alumina salt, is it 100% drop?

or do i have to go kill it as the job that activated the quest....?

You have to kill it as the class the relic quest is for.

[Makoto_Tayuun]

Getting a group for the keep at the moment sucks, everyone wants to just speed run it and get the tokens in under 15 minutes, if you've not run the dungeon already they ask you to leave. How are people to learn this dungeon when the last 4 groups i've joined have asked me to drop cause they only want people who know what happens to run it.
It's like the speed runs of 1.0 all over again.