Final Fantasy XIV: How to unlock Dawntrail Relic Weapons (Phantom Weapons)

The chain quest for the Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail’s Relic Weapons (Phantom Weapons) is now available. As with all Relic Weapons, unlocking them is a multi-step, multi-patch ordeal, so take your time and go do it at your own pace. This article will be updated as more steps to make the weapons accessible are unveiled. Right now, players have the capacity to unlock the Atma Weapons, which they can do early into their time in the Occult Crescent in patch 7.25.

As the rest of the patches for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail come to light, we’ll update this article accordingly. Unlocking the Relic Weapons will take time, but they'll be worth acquiring, as all Relic Weapons inevitably are. Right now, in patch 7.25, we’re only at step one of the process, but more is to come.

Note: This article is a work in progress. As more steps are added to the game, we'll update accordingly.

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How to begin the Dawntrail Relic Weapon process in Final Fantasy XIV (Phase 1)

The first step is to have unlocked the Occult Crescent, at least to the point where the first Phantom Jobs are accessible. When you’re ready, leave the Southern Horn, return to the Phantom Village, and speak to Lydirceil (6.6, 7.1) to pick up the quest Arcane Artistry. A weaponsmith is missing, and your help is needed to find him.

In the Phantom Village, predictably, you start the Phantom Weapon quest (Image via Square Enix)

Search for the very familiar weaponsmith in the nearby circled area — he’s very easy to spot. Speak with him, and after the cutscene, return to Lydirceil. This begins a new cutscene, which then kicks off the Dawntrail Relic Weapons (Phantom Weapons) quest.

You need to bring back the demiatma to Gerolt to claim the Final Fantasy XIV Phantom Weapons. It can obtained from FATES and Critical encounters on the Occult Crescent’s South Horn.

If you played during Heavensward, you know the score — grind those FATEs (Image via Square Enix)

However, you can also gain it from completing FATES in Urqopacha, Kozama’uka, Yak T’el, Shaaloani, Heritage Found, and Living Memory, so you aren’t bound to just grinding the Occult Crescent. You need three pieces of six unique varieties of demiatma. That means three from Urqopacha, three from Kozama'uka, etc. Once you have all of the required materials, return to the Phantom Village and turn them in.

While we're still working on our demiatma farm across the Dawntrail regions, we do know where each type drops:

• Orpiment Demiatma (Yellow): Living Memory
• Realgar Demiatma (Orange): Shaaloani
• Azurite Demiatma (Blue): Uqopacha
• Caput Mortuum Demiatma (Purple): Heritage Found
• Malachite Demiatma (Green): Yak Tel

This map shows the regions for each of the demiatma for the Occult Crescent (Image via Square Enix)

In addition, you can also farm demiatma within the confines of Occult Crescent, by taking part in FATES and Critical Events. The above map shows the regions of the map where you can find them. The map is courtesy of Redditor BleppiRoll and the FFXIV community at large.

Once you've obtained all 18 demiatma, return to Gerolt and turn in the quest. The next quest is Forging the Phantasmal, which requires you to purchase 3x Arcanite, from the nearby Tomestone Exchange. Each one costs 500 Tomestones of Heliometry, for a total of 1500 Tomestones. This will complete Phase 1 of the Relic Weapon for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail. Just make sure you are in the class you want the weapon for!

Thankfully, we have learned that when you've completed your Phase 1 Weapon, you can purchase weapons for additional jobs for 1,500 Tomes of Heliometry. That's something to keep in mind, depending on which grind you prefer.

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Phase 2 (Patch 7.31)

With the patch 7.3X series in Final Fantasy XIV, we have the first major update to our Dawntrail Relic Weapons. This was officially added in patch 7.31, so it didn't come with the bulk of the other content. You do at least need one weapon from Phase 1, so once you have that equipped, head to Tuliyollal, and head to the Phantom Village. If you don't recall, you get there by using Aethernet to head to Wachumeqiqi in Tuliyollal.

Speak to Lydirceil in the Phantom Village to pick up the quest Keeping the Old Ways Alive. Click on Gerolt after the discussion with them, and use the Doubt emote (/doubt). It turns out, Gerolt already had an idea to further enhance the Phantom Weapons. You need to procure the following items for Gerolt:

• Block of Rroneek Glue x1: Purchase from Goplu (Tuliyollal, 10.8, 13.8) in Marketplace for 300k Gil.
• Chunk of Ut'ohmu Siderite x1: Purchase from Rral Wuruq in Iq Br'aax (13.8, 12.7) for 600 Bicolor Gemstones.
• Pinch of Synthetic Dark Matter Alpha x1: Craft using Master Recipe XII tomes of the Disciples of the Hand or purchase off of Market Board.
• Pinch of Synthetic Dark Matter Beta x1: Craft using Master Recipe XII tomes of the Disciples of the Hand or purchase off of Market Board.
• Pinch of Synthetic Dark Matter Gamma x1: Craft using Master Recipe XII tomes of the Disciples of the Hand or purchase off of Market Board.

When you complete the Aetherwells, you have one more minor grind ahead of you - get 1,500 Tomestones. (Image via Square Enix)

The only difficult part of this is going to be the Pinch of Synthetic Dark Matter Alpha/Beta/Gamma, because if you can't craft them yet, it's going to be expensive. Expect to spend anywhere from 1-3M per reagent. The price could come down with time, but on server launch, people are no doubt going to try and get as much as they can.

My home server (Diabolos) has someone selling them for 5M a pop. Return to Gerolt in Phantom Village when you've acquire the above items. Watch the cutscene, then interact with the location next to you, to wait. That will complete the first quest. Next up is speaking to Lydirceil, to pick up Aether, Aether, Everywhere.

This gives you Aetherwells to fill. Completing duties via Duty Roulette will give you a variety of aspected aether, depending on the category chosen. You can use the Aetherwell Array in-game to gauge how much aether you have accumulated. In addition, once per day, your activities will generate bonus aether. Roulette Duties you've completed before taking this quest will not count, either. The Aetherwell Array is found in your Key Items section of the inventory. It has four categories, each capping at 10,000 Aether:

• Duty Roulette: High Level Dungeons
• Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids
• Duty Roulette: Normal Raids
• Duty Roulette: Trials

This grind is going to take a significant amount of time, it sounds like. Once we've done some Duty Roulettes and judged how much Aether we receive, we'll update this accordingly. After doing all four once, here's what you can roughly expect, with and without the bonus.

• Duty Roulette: High Level Dungeon: 425 (+376 bonus)
• Duty Roulette: Alliance Raids: 860 (+101 bonus)
• Duty Roulette: Normal Raids: 213 (+614 bonus)
• Duty Roulette: Trials: 71 (+614)

Thanks to long-time collaborator and aide Kristine Kasuke, who grinded this phase out super fast (Image via Square Enix)

I'm sure the idea is that we aren't supposed to grind through these in one day. That's good, because it would likely take around 130 Trials in one day, and nobody needs to do that. This is a weapon we'll have to take our time through.

Once you have all of the Aetherwells full, return to Gerolt, and you'll pick up the final step. You need to purchase 3x Waxing Arcanite for 500 Heliometry each (1,500 total). With those purchased, return to the quest giver, and you can unlock your Item Level 760 weapon! For future weapons, you only need to complete the Waxing Arcanite, so thankfully, no repeat Aetherwell grinds.

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