A little hint for Toughening Up, You only need to have the weapon equipped when you leave the dungeon for the quest to progress so you can use a stronger weapon to make unsyncing the dungeon go faster but remember to equip your relic before you leave. Later steps however will require you to have the weapon equipped when you are doing the duty so just be aware of that.

You can also visit a Rowena's Representative NPC in any of the main cities (usually near their aetherytes) to buy the Poetics items.

Just finished my 1st relic and it was the Bard Anima. This video made the process so much easier and I'm loving this big ass bow haha, thank you for the clear explanations!

I’m so happy i came across this guide. Got my first ever full completed relic today. Thank you! Very helpful.

Cronus/Cronus Lux is badass :D for "Toughening Up" you may use duty support, especially for the hw duties for "Coming Into Its Own": you ran 10 dungeons one step prior; now sell your loot to Grand Company for seals. also means grab each and every treasure chest in the dungeons and be greedy during other duty roulettes.

Good guide. Thank you so much. Got my anima for astro. Deadly happy Cx

If you're working on ARR relics, too, a single 5/6/7/80 roulette counts for both the Singing Cluster and Alexandrite daily quests.

This video has been so helpful. I got my first ever relic, the Canopus Lux! Ty :D

holy mother of grind.

Huh. I just did a quick Google Image search on the SMN Anima. I like it a lot. Looks like I'm going to make an Anima weapon. Thanks for giving me a cool goal I didn't know I wanted!

I've been doing a lot of eureka and its been so easy to passively get all the stuff for anima relics while im on the not always fun anima relic grind

yeah this guide is what mostly people do and i do, its very fast to do anima, even better if you're aiming to collect every anima, when you're doing the FATEs farming for crystals, better to not submit too fast but farm X times until you have enough for all animas, before moving to next step, so you don't have to suffer from FATEs anymore in the future

Great guide, thank you!

man A Dream Fulfilled left me scratching cause I didn't know which item I should farm for. Thanks for the guide!

900 Hours in, Just got my first relic, Thanks for the helpful vid!!!

1:40 if you lack the Zodiac weapon, you cannot purchase replicas of them (Maybe if it was given for the HW relic start). But I do not have my ARR Warrior and Dragoon weapons and I cannot get replicas for them no more. So gotta be certain to have a replica of your weapon BEFORE losing the Zodiac weapon :) -Still about the first step, no required, but IF you wanna do ShB relic weapons, it is very time efficient to have their HW fates grind quest while also doing your HW relic, it's 2 two quests grind at the same time. Not required! Just some efficienty funfact for any relic hunters :) 7:40 you can make quite some seals with all the fates grind from the first step and the dungeons ran for the second by selling the dungeons gears for Seals. Won't get you 80k, but with a leveling roulette and guildhest, can be some quick easy seals to get them ;) but those are just smol tips or trick I got from doing every single ones Great guide and showcase of how it is to do them!

I wish I had seen this video sooner lol, I did all of these steps 'THE HARD WAY' lol

If you're good about rolling for gear and trading them in for grand company seals, Moonstones are also a very good way to grind the Crystal Sand Step on the side!

On the sand part of the grind, if you don't have crafters and already spent all of your leve permits, and do not wish to wait another 2 weeks for them to reset, I recommend farming Ifrit, Titan and Shiva extreme. Playing them unsynced, alone, as a DRK took me about 30-45 seconds each fight, mostly because all of them become invulnerable and you have to wait until the animations finish to kill them, if this not happened, it could be done in way less time. Anyway, by defeating them you may get the item you need, and then trade those items for 2 sands each. The drop hate is not great, but it is super easy and quick to do. After spending my 100 leve permits, I only had to acquire 7 items of each trial to finish this part of the weapon

Best advice for this weapon is grind it in the background and slowly acquire all the materials. Easily obtainable in a week just doing a couple hours of duty grinding and cashing in all your dungeon loot for company seals. Legit at lvl 80 took me 1 hour and 45 minutes with all the prepping done.

15:25 the best one to do is dance, magic dance their 3 chest spawn and you can easily just mount up fly around in the very small circle they spawn in and then redo. You should try it out to see how well it is, it lvl 58 leve quest

Ohh my god. Thank you for the guide. I have my Dark Knight and Dragoon relics at the light farming tep and just didn't know the best way to go about it. Definitely going to try and jump into some farming parties for it.

I think the weekly singing cluster quest changed to a daily thing cause it was saying it was going to reset tomorrow at 3 am and I'm 100% sure its the correct quest cause you get that quest from the black clothe twin

I have anima glass with one symbol glowing, am I in the light phase ? Grinding Alexander?

Do I retry the leve for the treasure coffers to respawn or do I abandon it entirely?

But how to i juice the form i want? For example i never did a quest for the base form. I finish this one and just upgrade till i reach the form i desire? But what if i want the one from HV? Do i accept a different quest for it?

At this point, the worst part is the beggining, doing those fates and all those dungeons is a borefest, the rest can be done on the side with your usual roulettes and whatnot. Final 2 steps could seem annoying as well but it's a bit more encouraging doing it together with other people with the same goal in mind, plus, it's done in like an hour or two.

What's the full glow relic you holding it looks sick.

what is that glowing white greatsword your using?

What's the armor/glamour you are wearing ?

I can't find archaic ink? can only see superior everywhere I go

actually bc of the moogle tomes event Ive reached maximum poetics 4 times, I am doing this specifically bc I have too many of them hanging around

Only problem with this guide is just arriving in HW its probably easier to just grind the steps than get to level 80 or 90 first XD

Yoo, the chances of getting the chest with amber from leve quests...were NOT 1 in 5. It was more like 1 in 15!!

Is it just me or did they take a dungeon out of the second phase of dungeon grinding? I swear it was 4 each phase. I have all the HW relics so it’s been a while since I have done it so I could be wrong xD

4 out of 9 IYKYK - pray for me

I'm trying to start the quest for my reaper. I started it with a paladin and stopped at a dream fulfilled but I can't start it for reaper. Anyone know why?

can i get the item for a sage since it came out after

Azys Lla not Azy Lla

EW relic shaping up to be poetic weapon 2

I understand Tubers need to find ways to make content, but this laughably redundant at best and at worst terrible. Tome grind, do dallies/bozja/hunt trains. Trains give you nuts (and tomes) that can be used to get GC seals. Bozja can cap 2k in an hour while also lvling. Suggesting people either grind ARR tribes or unsync Alexander savage is more of a waste of time then unlocking bozja (anorher relic) or getting aether currents.