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ARRA Realm RebornZodiac Weapons

The original relic. Eight stages from a level-50 quest turn-in to Zeta, and still the longest single grind in the game outside Eureka.

✓ Verified in-gameProgress is permanent — no reset8 stages · 13 one-time steps10 jobs

What this line is

A Realm Reborn's relic line, added across patches 2.0 to 2.4. Every stage is gated behind its own unlock quest and a different currency — Poetics, Grand Company seals, gil, crafted items and raw duty repetition all appear before Zeta.

Nothing here is current-content gear. The line is run for the glamour, the achievements and the Zodiac Zeta trade-in that starts the Heavensward Anima line.

Building a second weaponall 20 costs repeat

Only the unlock quests carry over. Every Atma, every Trials of the Braves book, all 75 Alexandrite, the entire Nexus light farm, the eight high-quality crafted items and all twelve Mahatma are gathered again for each weapon — a second Zeta costs what the first did.

How this page tracks progress

Step boxesAccount-wide and permanent. Unlock quests, story gates and one-time material walls — done once ever, however many weapons you build.

One-time itemsMaterials paid once for the account. Farm them for your first weapon and no later one on this line ever needs them again.

Item boxesMaterials, tracked per weapon. They belong to whichever job is selected above the stage list, because the same cost is paid again for the next one. One box covers the whole quantity — ticking “1,200× Crystal Paste” means you have all 1,200, not one of them. Tick every item in a stage and that weapon advances.

The gridThe overview, and the shortcut — one row per job, one column per stage. Ticking a cell fills in that stage's items; the two always agree.

one-timeA step you do once and never again.

gatedA gate you cannot buy past — story progress or a rank that has to be earned first.

01Base
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02Zenith
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03Atma
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04Animus
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05Novus
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06Nexus
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07Zodiac
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08Zeta

Your Zodiac weapons

A relic is built per job. Tick the stage each one has reached — earlier stages fill in automatically, because you cannot reach a later stage without them.

Job

01Base

02Zenith

03Atma

04Animus

05Novus

06Nexus

07Zodiac

08Zeta

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The ten jobs that existed in A Realm Reborn. Paladin runs sword and shield as separate progressions.

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Sections

Unlock0 / 2

Account-wide and permanent. Done once, every later weapon on this line skips straight to the materials.

one-timeComplete “The Weaponsmith of Legend”
Nedrick Ironheart — Vesper Bay, Western Thanalan. The gateway quest for the whole line.
one-timeMeet Gerolt at the Hyaline
North Shroud. Every early stage is turned in here or at the Furnace beside him.

01Basei80

Full name: Relic Weapon.

one-timeAccept “A Relic Reborn” for your job
Gerolt — North Shroud. A separate job-specific version exists for each of the ten jobs.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

1× Job-specific crafted weapon, melded with two set materiaCrafted or bought on the market board; the required materia differ per job1× Clear Amdapor KeepLevel 50 dungeon, part of the quest chain1× Radz-at-Han Quenching OilAuriana — Mor Dhona, 15 Allagan Tomestones of Poetics

RewardRelic Weapon, item level 80

02Zenithi90

No quest — trade the base weapon at the Furnace beside Gerolt in the North Shroud.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

3× Thavnairian MistAuriana — Mor Dhona, 20 Poetics each (60 total)

RewardZenith Relic Weapon, item level 90

03Atmai100

one-timeComplete “Up in Arms”
Introduces Jalzahn in Mor Dhona, who handles every stage from here on.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

12× AtmaFATEs in twelve set zones with the Zenith weapon equipped — roughly a 20% drop per zone. Each atma matches a zodiac sign.

RewardAtma Relic Weapon, item level 100

04Animusi100

one-timeComplete “Trials of the Braves”
Introduces G'jusana in Mor Dhona, who sells the books.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

9× Trials of the Braves booksG'jusana — Mor Dhona, 100 Poetics each (900 total). Each book is a set of kills, dungeons, FATEs and levequests, and the Atma weapon must stay equipped throughout.

RewardAnimus Relic Weapon, item level 100

05Novusi110

one-timeComplete “Celestial Radiance” and “Star Light, Star Bright”
Introduces Hubairtin in Central Thanalan.
one-timeUnlock treasure maps — “Treasures and Tribulations”
H'loonh — Wineport, Eastern La Noscea (X: 21, Y: 21). Required to dig for alexandrite.
one-timeUnlock “One Man's Trash”
North Shroud.
one-timeUnlock the free daily map — “Morbid Motivation”
Brangwine. One free Mysterious Map a day, which is the difference between this stage taking days and weeks.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

3× Superior Enchanted InkAuriana — Mor Dhona, 25 Poetics each (75 total)75× AlexandriteTreasure maps — about 5 per map, so roughly 15 Mysterious Maps at 75 Poetics each (1,125 Poetics) minus whatever the free daily covers75× Materia, grades I–IVMelded into the Sphere Scroll to set the weapon's stats — about 20 of each grade is the usual buffer

RewardNovus Relic Weapon, item level 110

06Nexusi115

Dungeon runs are capped at 100 per day, reset-gated — this is the one stage on the line you cannot rush in a single sitting.

one-timeComplete “Mmmmmm, Soulglazed Relics”
Introduces Remon at Swiftperch, Western La Noscea.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

1× Soulglaze the Novus weaponJalzahn — Mor Dhona. Do this before farming, or the runs do not count. Light, farmed with the weapon equippedFinal Coil of Bahamut Turn 4, Bowl of Embers (Extreme) and Thornmarch (Extreme) at roughly 42–63 runs each; Aurum Vale and Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak at roughly 21–42. Track it with the Zodiac Glass.

RewardNexus Relic Weapon, item level 115

07Zodiaci125

Full name: Zodiac Braves Weapon.

First weapon turns in to Gerolt; every weapon after that goes to Jalzahn.

one-timeComplete “Wherefore Art Thou, Zodiac” and its four sub-quests
The stage is four linked quests rather than a single turn-in.
gatedReach Grand Company rank Second Lieutenant
Required to buy Bombard Cores at all. Rank up through GC hunting log and supply missions.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

4× Bombard CoreGrand Company Quartermaster — 20,000 company seals each (80,000 total)4× Sacred Spring WaterAuriana — Mor Dhona, 200 Poetics each (800 total), sold only after the quest1× Furite SandWhitebrim Front merchant — 100,000 gil1× Allagan ResinForgotten Springs merchant — 100,000 gil1× Bronze Lake CrystalJijiroon's Trading Post merchant — 100,000 gil1× Brass KettleHyrstmill merchant — 100,000 gil8× Eight high-quality crafted itemsPerfect Firewood, Perfect Pestle, Perfect Mortar, Furnace Ring, Perfect Vellum, Perfect Cloth, Perfect Pounce and Tailor-made Eel Pie — one recipe per crafting class. Ingredients come from desynthesising Silver Bazaar goods at roughly 3,000 gil and an 18% rate.

RewardZodiac Braves Weapon, item level 125

08Zetai135

one-timeComplete “Rise and Shine”
Remon — Swiftperch, Western La Noscea.

Every weapon · tracked for the selected job

12× MahatmaRemon — 50 Poetics each (600 total)12× Awaken each mahatma in dutyOne at a time, weapon equipped: 2–3 runs each of Final Coil Turn 4, Bowl of Embers (Extreme) or Thornmarch (Extreme), or 1–2 of Aurum Vale or Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak. Return to Jalzahn between each.

RewardZodiac Zeta Weapon, item level 135 — the end of the line, and the trade-in that shortcuts stage 1 of the Anima relic