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  • A Note About Anima Weapons Before You Begin
  • Complete The Quest 'An Unexpected Proposal'
  • Consummate The Quest 'Soul Without Life'
  • Consummate The Quest 'Toughening Up'
  • Complete 'Coming Into Its Own'
  • Consummate 'Finding Your Vocalism'
  • Consummate 'A Dream Fulfilled'
  • Complete 'Futurity Proof'
  • Complete 'Born Again Anima'
  • Complete 'Trunk And Soul'
  • Consummate 'Words of Wisdom'
  • Complete 'Best Friends Forever'

Final Fantasy XIV'due south outset expansion, Heavensward, introduced the Anima Weapon Quest. This long questline was originally updated periodically through the course of the expansion and had you slowly upgrading an incredibly strong and impressive-looking weapon. Although there are bigger and meliorate weapons to work towards at present, you'll still want to eventually craft your own Anima Weapon, even if but for the epic design. Let's take a look at each quest in the concatenation, and what you have to exercise to complete your Anima Weapon.

A Note About Anima Weapons Before Yous Begin

Earlier you start the questline, let's go over some baseline information that will aid downwards the road. Showtime, crafting an Anima Weapon is not for the faint of center. This quest volition involve grinding and investing tons of fourth dimension and materials into the process.

Additionally, the weapon you receive and upgrade will be level 60. Currently, these weapons are outdated, and should only be used for cosmetic purposes. This weapon will also be job-specific, and each step volition have to be repeated if you want to arts and crafts an Anima Weapon for a second job.

Complete The Quest 'An Unexpected Proposal'

Rowena in Mor Dhona for Crafting and Gathering Collectibles

Your Anima Weapon journeying will brainstorm with the quest An Unexpected Proposal. Notation that this quest does non have to exist repeated for additional Anima Weapons.

  • Pre-requisites:
    • Complete the Primary Scenario Quest 'Heavensward',
    • Reach level lx for the job y'all volition be undertaking the quest as.
  • NPC Location:
    • Rowena Dravania, Idyllshire (x:5.7, y:5.5)

To complete this quest, simply talk to Rowena in Idyllshire, then travel to the Alpha Quadrant in Azys Lla and speak to Ardashir.

Complete The Quest 'Soul Without Life'

Azys Lla
  • NPC Location:
    • Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (ten:7, y:11)

This follow-on quest will task you lot with gathering an Astral and Umbral Nodule.

Tip: You can skip this quest past trading in a competed Zodiac Zeta Weapon for both Nodules.

If you followed the Relic Questline from A Realm Reborn, the Zodiac Zeta Weapon is the concluding, completed relic. If you don't trade a Zodiac Zeta Weapon in, you volition take to gather elemental crystals from Heavensward zones (levels 51-sixty). Hither'south where yous tin can detect them:

Where To Discover The Crystals For The Astral Nodule

Crystal Location
Luminous Current of air Crystal The Sea of Clouds
Luminous Burn Crystal Azys Lla
Luminous Lightning Crystal The Churning Mists

Where To Find The Crystals For The Umbral Nodule

Crystal Location
Luminous Ice Crystal Coerthas Western Highlands
Luminous Earth Crystal The Dravanian Forelands
Luminous Water Crystal The Dravanian Hinterlands

In order to go a crystal to drop from a Fate, y'all will demand to receive a gilded rating. This footstep is RNG dependant, so expect to invest some time into grinding Fates if the drops aren't in your favor.

After you have gathered i crystal of each chemical element, return to Ardashir in Azys Lla (x7, y11).

Rewards

  • 1447 gil
  • Animated Weapon

Complete The Quest 'Toughening Up'

Snowcloak dungeon for Toughening Up Anima Weapon Quest
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Blastoff Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:seven, y:11)

This quest will require you to complete a full of ten dungeons with your Animated Weapon equipped. The dungeons must exist completed in the following lodge:

  1. Snowcloak
  2. Sastasha (Hard)
  3. The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Difficult)
  4. Keeper of the Lake
  5. Wanderer's Palace (Hard)
  6. Amdapor Keep (Hard)
  7. Sunset Vigil
  8. Sohm Al
  9. The Aery
  10. The Vault

Later on completing The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard), Amdapor Keep, and The Vault, y'all volition have to talk to Ardashir. He will appear next to you later on you lot exit the dungeon the showtime two times. Later you complete the tenth dungeon, y'all will have to go back to the Alpha Quadrant and speak to him again.

These dungeons can exist completed in an undersized party. This means you lot can enter at your electric current level, and on your own if you lot wish, which will be peculiarly useful if you lot are playing a DPS class then you lot don't have to wait for long queue times. If you're level 70 or above, you lot shouldn't have too much problem doing these dungeons solo.

Additionally, while this quest requires you to equip your Animated Weapon to consummate it, you only take to equip the weapon as you get out each dungeon. This ways you can quickly run through the dungeon with your best weapon, then switch before y'all leave the dungeon.

Rewards

  • 868 gil
  • Awoken Weapon

Complete 'Coming Into Its Own'

Moogle Beast Tribe Daily Quests NPC
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:7, y:11)

For this quest, you will be required to collect 4 items. Each of these items will crave two tokens that you will combine into the final item. Y'all will demand ten of each of the first token and four of each of the second token. Here's a breakdown:

Cloth First Token Second Token
Enchanted Rubber 10x Unidentifiable Bone 4x Adamantite Francesca
Fast-drying Carboncoat 10x Unidentifiable Shell 4x Titanium Alloy Mirror
Divine Water 10x Unidentifiable Ore 4x Dispelling Pointer
Fast-interim Allagan Catalyst 10x Unidentifiable Seeds 4x Kingcake

You tin obtain the Unidentifiable Materials in the following ways:

Unidentifiable Fabric Method i Method ii Method 3 Method 4
Unidentifiable Bone 150 Tomestone of Poetics
  • 3 Amalj'aa Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vanu Vanu Tribe Tokens
  • six Vath Tribe Tokens
  • 18 Moogle Tribe Tokens
3 Precision Gordian Commodities 300 Centrolineal Seals
Unidentifiable Shell 150 Tomestone of Poetics
  • three Amalj'aa Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vanu Vanu Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vath Tribe Tokens
  • eighteen Moogle Tribe Tokens
3 Precision Gordian Lens Timeworn Wyvernskin Map
Unidentifiable Ore 150 Tomestone of Poetics
  • 3 Amalj'aa Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vanu Vanu Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vath Tribe Tokens
  • 18 Moogle Tribe Tokens
3 Precision Gordian Leap Timeworn Dragonskin Map
Unidentifiable Seeds 150 Tomestone of Poetics
  • iii Amalj'aa Tribe Tokens
  • half-dozen Vanu Vanu Tribe Tokens
  • 6 Vath Tribe Tokens
  • 18 Moogle Tribe Tokens
3 Precision Gordian Shaft 300 Allied Seals

The second Tokens can be obtained in the following ways:

2nd Token Method 1 Method 2
Adamantite Francesca Craft as Blacksmith 5000 Company Seals
Titanium Blend Mirror Craft every bit Alchemist 5000 Company Seals
Dispelling Pointer Arts and crafts every bit Carpenter 5000 Company Seals
Kingcake Craft as Culinarian 5000 Company Seals

Later yous have gathered both tokens, take them to Cristiana in Mor Dhona to trade them for the Weapon Material. After you've traded each material, return to the Alpha Quadrant and give them to Gerolt (x7, y11). This is the first quest in the questline that will take some grinding.

Tip: For subsequent Anima Weapons, yous can gather these items in accelerate by diligently doing your Fauna Tribe Quests and stocking up on Tomestones of Poetics.

Rewards

  • 1512 gil
  • Anima Weapon

Consummate 'Finding Your Voice'

The Crystal Tower at night in Mor Dhona
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:7, y:11)

For this quest, you simply need to get together five Aether Oils, which can be done in two ways.

  1. Complete the weekly quest The Gift of the Archmagus for 1 Aether Oil
  2. Purchase for 350 Tomestone of Poetics to Hismena in Idyllshire(loc)

The quest Souvenir of the Archmagus requires yous to consummate all three Crystal Belfry series raids, then deliver the Pearls y'all get from each raid to Koh Rapntah in Revenant's Price (x21, y8).

Yous can gather the five Aether Oils using both methods. If you don't desire to spend your tomestones, the weekly quest is the better option. Or, if y'all want to get this quest over with every bit shortly as possible, you tin simply buy them for a total of 1750 Tomestones of Poetics.

Rewards

  • 518 gil
  • Hyperconductive Anima Weapon
  • Access to replica Awoken and Anima Weapons from the Restoration Node

Complete 'A Dream Fulfilled'

Idyllshire in the Dravanian Hinterlands
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Blastoff Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:7, y:11)

For this quest, yous will be sent to Idyllshire to meet with Ulan, who will ask you to assemble Crystal Sand and Umbrite. These items can exist obtained in various methods, which nosotros will outline below. After obtaining both, y'all volition combine them into Treated Crystal Sand by talking to Ulan. It costs ane Crystal Sand and i Umbrite to receive three Treated Crystal Sand.

You volition use Treated Crystal Sand to enhance the attributes of your Hyperconductive Anima Weapon, up to a maximum of 240 points. Afterward you accomplish 120 points, in that location is a chance you will gain bonus Treated Crystal Sand when converting it from Crystal Sand and Umbrite, upward to a maximum of six at a fourth dimension. The bones steps for this quest are as follows:

  1. Obtain Crystal Sand by trading with Ulan for various items
  2. Obtain Umbrite by purchasing for 75 Tomestones of Poetics from Hismena in Idyllshire (x5.viii, y5.one)
  3. Combine these two materials into Treated Crystal Sand
  4. Allocate Treated Crystal Sand into your weapon to increment its stats

Afterward you have allocated a full of 240 points, you will finish this footstep.

Beneath is a list of how you can obtain Crystal Sand. Each required item on the left will grant y'all ane Crystal Sand.

Required Particular How to Obtain
5 Rowena'southward Token (Blue Crafters' Scrip) 25 Yellowish Crafters' Scrip (125 in full)
5 Rowena's Token (Bluish Gatherers' Scrip) 25 Yellow Gatherers' Scrip (125 in total)
  • i Garlond Steel
  • one Celestine
  • ane High Allagan Chimera Leather
  • Crafted past Blacksmith/Armorer
  • Crafted by Goldsmith
  • Crafted past Leatherworker
1 Amber-encased Vilekin Heavensward Levequests
  • 1 Fire Materia 4
  • i Wind Materia IV
  • 1 Lightning Materia IV
Buy from Market Lath
  • 1 Water ice Materia Iv
  • ane Earth Materia IV
  • one Water Materia 4
Buy from Marketplace Lath
  • 3 Battlecraft Demimateria I
  • 2 Battlecraft Demimateria II
  • 3 Fieldcraft Demimateria I
  • ii Fieldcraft Demimateria II
Desynthesis
5 Moonstone
  • 4000 G Company Seals (20000 total)
  • Treasure Maps
  • Ixali Daily Quest Deliverance
  • 1 Inferno Horn
  • 1 Crag Heart
  • 1 Diamond Tear
  • Ifrit (Extreme)
  • Titan (Extreme)
  • Shiva (Farthermost)
  • 1 Vortex Feather
  • 1 Barb of the Curlicue
  • 1 Large Levin Orb
  • Garuda (Extreme)
  • Leviathan (Extreme)
  • Ramuh (Extreme)
  • v Superior Enchanted Ink
  • 5 Thavnarian Mist
  • 25 Tomestone of Poetics (125 total)
  • 20 Tomestone of Poetics (100 total)
  • 2 Mhachi Farthing
  • 5 Allagan Catalyst
  • No longer obtainable
  • Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Belfry, The Gift of the Archmagus weekly quest
  • 1 Unidentifiable Bone
  • 1 Unidentifiable Shell
  • i Unidentifiable Ore
  • 1 Unidentifiable Seed
Any of the methods listed in Coming Into Its Own Step

You tin deliver any of the items on the left to obtain the Crystal Sands you need. If you have a lot of Leve Allowances piled up, you can undertake Heavensward Levequests to endeavour to get Amber-encased Vilekin. The method is simple, but follow the steps below:

  1. Accept the levequest and become to the location
  2. Offset the levequest
  3. Wing around and expect for a breast
    1. If you find a breast, open it for i Bister-encased Vilekin
    2. If y'all don't notice a chest, go along to step four
  4. Abandon the levequest
  5. Repeat steps two to four

Using this method, you lot can quickly find Amber-encased Vilekins to plow into Crystal Sand.

The best method for obtaining Crystal Sands is to grind Yellow Crafters' Scrips and trade them for Rowena'southward Tokens. Still, this simply works if you have a crafter leveled to at least level fifty.

Rewards

  • 488 gil
  • Reconditioned Anima Weapon

Consummate 'Hereafter Proof'

Seeking Inspiration quest for singing clusters for Anima Weapon
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (ten:seven, y:11)

For this quest, y'all volition need to get together fifty Singing Clusters. There are three options for gathering this detail that can exist completed in conjunction

  • Consummate the weekly quest 'Seeking Inspiration'
    • Complete Duty Roulette: Leveling three times.
    • Rewards eighteen Singing Clusters
  • Complete the daily quest 'Cut From a Different Cloth'
    • Consummate Duty Roulette: Level fifty/threescore/70 Dungeons
    • Rewards ane Singing Cluster
  • Purchase for forty Tomestones of Poetics from Hismena in Idyllshire (x5.8, y5.3)

If yous don't buy Singing Clusters using Tomestones, it will take at least ii weeks to get together plenty. We recommend doing both quests, and so buying the rest with Tomestones of Poetics if you want to terminate this step as shortly as possible.

Rewards

Sharpened Anima Weapon

Consummate 'Born Again Anima'

Sohm Al (Hard) Dungeon in Dravania for Born Again Anima Weapon quest
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (ten:vii, y:eleven)

This quest will start with Ardashir request y'all to complete 3 dungeons as the job y'all are currently making the Anima Weapon for. These dungeons are as follows:

  1. Sohm Al (Hard)
  2. The Peachy Gubal Library (Hard)
  3. The Lost City of Amdapor (Difficult)

Afterwards completing these dungeons, you lot will demand to speak to two NPCs in either order

  • Speak to the Processing Node and complete the quest 'Some Assembly Required'
  • Speak to the Verification Node and assemble Aetheric Density for your weapon

Some Associates Required

To complete this subquest, you lot volition need to assemble 15 pneumite. This detail can be obtained in the following ways:

  • Buy for 100 Tomestones of Poetics from Hismena in Idyllshire (x5.8, y5.iii)
  • Purchase for 4000 One thousand Visitor Seals from your Grand Company'south HQ
  • Obtain through a random breast drop from a Timeworn Dragonskin Map

Later completing this quest, you will be rewarded with the Newborn Soulstone, which you volition demand after yous finish gathering Aetheric Density.

Aetheric Density

Gathering aetheric density for Sharpened Axe of the Blood Emperor

Gathering Aetheric Density will involve you filling upward a special meter with points that are obtained from various duties. You will need to have your Anima Weapon equipped when completing all of the activities beneath in order to receive Aetheric Density. Yous tin undertake whatever of the following to fill the meter:

  • Heavensward Fates, Difficult and Farthermost Trials, Dungeons, and Raids (8 and 24-player)
  • A Realm Reborn Dungeons (level 50)

The best way to cease this stride is to bring together a farming group and complete Alexander Savage Raids. Usually, people choose to exercise A1S or A9S, every bit they are the fastest with an undersized party.

If you don't want to do this step in a group, you tin can e'er run level l dungeons like Huakke Manor (Hard), Amdapor Keep (Hard), or Brayflox Longstop (Hard). Of course, y'all can run these in an undersized party as a level eighty solo player. One time yous get the hang of running these dungeons, y'all should be able to clear them in around five minutes. Just exist certain to have your Anima Weapon equipped by the end or you lot won't gain Aetheric Density.

Rewards

  • 615 gil
  • Consummate Anima Weapon

Complete 'Body And Soul'

Mor Dhona Aetheryte Crystal
  • NPC Location: Automaton - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x7, y12)

Thankfully, this is a elementary quest that will only involve yous going to Idyllshire, speaking to Rowena, so heading back to Azys Lla to talk to Ardashir.

Rewards

  • 1559 gil
  • Anima minion

Complete 'Words of Wisdom'

Rowena in Mor Dhona for Crafting and Gathering Collectibles
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:7, y:xi)

This is another simple quest. Ardashir will send you lot to speak with Rowena in Idyllshire, then you take to head dorsum to Azys Lla and speak to Ardashir again.

Rewards

  • 1526 gil

Consummate 'Best Friends Forever'

Ifrit fight in Bowl of Embers
  • NPC Location: Ardashir - Alpha Quadrant, Azys Lla (x:7, y:11)

This is the final stride in the Anima Weapon questline. You can remember of this quest as a sort of "victory lap", as it volition take you through every level 50-threescore Difficult trial. Yous will accept to do these trials with your Anima Weapon equipped, and they must be completed in the following order:

  1. Bowl of Embers (Hard)
  2. Howling Eye (Difficult)
  3. The Naval (Hard)
  4. Thornmarch (Hard)
  5. Whorleater (Hard)
  6. Striking Tree (Hard)
  7. Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Hard)
  8. Thok ast Thok (Hard)
  9. The Limitless Blue (Hard)
  10. Containment Bay S1T7
  11. Containment Bay P1T6
  12. Containment Bay Z1T9

After you have completed these trials, return to and speak with Ardashir in Azys Lla. He will then ask you lot to deliver an Archaic Enchanted Ink, which y'all tin can obtain for 500 Tomestones of Poetics from Hismena in Idyllshire (x5.8, y5.iii)

After delivering the Ink to Ardashir, your Anima Weapon volition exist complete!

Rewards

  • Lux Anima Weapon

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