What a long and strange trip this has been. But after nearly five months of farming, I completed NOT ONLY all 10 A Realm Reborn Relics but I have also completed the remaining 11 of the 13 Heavensward Relics (I completed 2 of the Heavensward Relics back when they were current).
All Relics: https://i.imgur.com/wYVA89a.png
ARR Relic Checklist: https://i.imgur.com/pEKrFGz.png
Heavensward Checklist: https://i.imgur.com/Na7ALrc.png
Back when 5.2 came out, we had the Resistance Weapons first come out. Since I had all 17 combat jobs leveled to 80 already, I got all 17 Resistance Weapons within 2 weeks of the patch coming out. Because I had completed the weapons before Ishgard Restoration started I was trying to figure out what I should in the meantime. I figured that I would try to complete the one ARR Relic (Black Mage) I had started YEARS ago but stopped once I hit the Book phase. I spent the next week going through and completing the remainder of the Black Mage Relic. I was like… “That wasn’t so bad. Let’s go for the remaining 9.” I would then spend the next week getting all nine up to the book phase. The book phase is where things started to slow down. It would take another month and a half for me to get through all nine jobs of the book phase. I had to stop farming the book phase for 2 weeks due to the fact that I ran out of leves for the levequests and had to wait for the leves to restock. I did spend those 2 weeks stocking up for the later stages but still it was definitely a grind. Still, after 3 months, I completed all 10 ARR relics.
I had been stocking up over the years on SOME of the Heavensward Mats but never put in the time to go after them. Thankfully compared to the ARR Relics, Heavensward Relics are a much more laid-back grind compared to the dungeon grinding for the ARR Relics. Heavensward Relics rely more on Poetic farming than dungeon farming. So, you are limited in the number of things to do each day thus reduce the burden of grinding dungeons unsynced all day. It doesn’t mean you can’t grind dungeons all day, but it is not required. That and Heavensward Relics only require one round of Light farming, compared to one-and-a-half rounds of light farming for ARR Relics. This took me a month and a half after finishing the ARR Relics.
Some tips for those who want to run either:
Both:
A Realm Reborn Relics:
Heavensward
I plan on taking it easy till 5.3. Join Hunt trains to cap on Nuts and to stock up on Yellow and White scrips. I'll deal with getting the rest of the Eureka weapons later. I only have 1 of those that I got just before Shadowbringers came out.
Now to figure out what to spend Poetics on. I have all jobs at 80 So I do not need it for gear. All of my Desynthesis Skills are level 460+ so I don’t have any gear I can purchase to desynthesis to level off of. Only thing I can think of is level 70 crafting/gearing gear or at least the mats to make them. Just a cursory glance at the market board and none of the rest of the gear is selling that often.
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All Relics: https://i.imgur.com/wYVA89a.png
ARR Relic Checklist: https://i.imgur.com/pEKrFGz.png
Heavensward Checklist: https://i.imgur.com/Na7ALrc.png
Back when 5.2 came out, we had the Resistance Weapons first come out. Since I had all 17 combat jobs leveled to 80 already, I got all 17 Resistance Weapons within 2 weeks of the patch coming out. Because I had completed the weapons before Ishgard Restoration started I was trying to figure out what I should in the meantime. I figured that I would try to complete the one ARR Relic (Black Mage) I had started YEARS ago but stopped once I hit the Book phase. I spent the next week going through and completing the remainder of the Black Mage Relic. I was like… “That wasn’t so bad. Let’s go for the remaining 9.” I would then spend the next week getting all nine up to the book phase. The book phase is where things started to slow down. It would take another month and a half for me to get through all nine jobs of the book phase. I had to stop farming the book phase for 2 weeks due to the fact that I ran out of leves for the levequests and had to wait for the leves to restock. I did spend those 2 weeks stocking up for the later stages but still it was definitely a grind. Still, after 3 months, I completed all 10 ARR relics.
I had been stocking up over the years on SOME of the Heavensward Mats but never put in the time to go after them. Thankfully compared to the ARR Relics, Heavensward Relics are a much more laid-back grind compared to the dungeon grinding for the ARR Relics. Heavensward Relics rely more on Poetic farming than dungeon farming. So, you are limited in the number of things to do each day thus reduce the burden of grinding dungeons unsynced all day. It doesn’t mean you can’t grind dungeons all day, but it is not required. That and Heavensward Relics only require one round of Light farming, compared to one-and-a-half rounds of light farming for ARR Relics. This took me a month and a half after finishing the ARR Relics.
Some tips for those who want to run either:
Both:
- If you are aiming for both and have the quest for both pick up both “Morbid Motivation” (from Brangwine in Revenant’s Toll [21.9, 6.7]) and “Cut from a Different Cloth” (from Angelet in Idyllshire [7.9, 5.8]) before you do your daily “Duty Roulette: Level 50/60/70 Dungeons.” Saves you a few Poetics a day.
A Realm Reborn Relics:
- During the book phase, you can pick up multiple leves ahead of time if you know which books you are going after. Typically I would grab up to 12 leves in one go (5 set of books; but several times there are a few duplicates so I would have to wait till I completed the leves before I can re-get the leve.
- If you have a Grand Company Leve in both Mor Dhona and Central Highlands, you do not need to hand in either at their respected location. You can go to one and hand in both and they will both be counted.
- Some fates only appear once an hour. *starts glaring at “The Big Bagoly Theory” in Eastern Thanalan, “Tower of Power” in Central Highlands, and The King’s Justice in Western La Noscea*
- Light grinding can be made a LOT easier if you can find a dungeon that is in a bonus block. Every two hours (on the even hour in EST; odd hour in PST), a random dungeon or so will be marked as a bonus dungeon. I would tend to dungeon hop for the first 30 minutes or so trying to find a fast dungeon that maybe in a bonus block. I would go
- Aurum Vale
- Tam-Tara Deepcraft
- Haukke Manor
- Sastasha
- Halatali (Hard)
- Stone Vigil
- If I did not find a bonus dungeon by then I would farm Aurum Vale (takes about 2 ½ minutes each; rest are 3-4 minutes).
- If you do not find a bonus block, it takes 42 runs. 21 runs if you have a bonus block.
- You do NOT need to have the weapon equipped the entire dungeon. Only when killing the final boss.
Heavensward
- If you have any ARR relics done, you do not have to use that to hand in to skip the Crystal farming phase. I found this to be a fairly easy phase even though I was farming for all 11 missing relics. I had about a 25% chance to get a crystal per fate. To get all 11 jobs, took me about 8-10 hours of Fate farming.
- For the Crystal part, you do not need to be in the job you have the quest for. Crystals will drop from any jobs as long as you have the quest.
- The main thing with these relics is going be poetic farming. Particularly for Umbrites. You will need about 75 Umbrites total (approximately 5,625 Poetics). Whenever I was not spending Poetics on immediate things for ARR relics other more pressing items, I was purchasing Umbrites.
- If you have a level 76+ Alchemist, I would STRONGLY suggest keeping an eye out for days when Rowena’s House of Splendors has Cunning Craftsman’s Syrup; ESPECIALLY when it’s starred. Non-star days gives up 270 Yellow Scrips. Star days gives up to 324 Yellow Scrips. You can convert 25 of those to “Rowena’s Token (Blue Script’s Scrip).” 5 “Rowena’s Token (Blue Script’s Scrip)” will give you 2 Crystal Sands. So, a relatively cheap way to get the Crystal Sands.
- Just before the Light farming, you will need to run Sohm Al (Hard). A tip to tell your tanks (or if you ARE tanking). The first area of Sohm Al, you can tank mobs on top of the vents so that they can gain a Vulnerability Up debuff on the adds. I found most tanks are not aware of that mechanic.
- For the Light farming phase it will take 21 runs of A9S to cap
- There is a 5-10% chance that a A9S can become a Stalward instead of a Hardened proc. I had anywhere between 1 and 3 Stalward procs outside of a Stalward Block
- Similar to ARR Light farming, there is a chance that you can get a Stalward Block where A9S will always give Stalward. Like ARR Light farming, this can happen on the even hour in EST (odd hour PST). If you get into A9S with this block active, you only need 16 runs to cap.
- I would suggest if the A9S group you run with is going to do the trial phase right afterwards, try to have your 15 Pneumite acquired before-hand. You can get them either by Poetics (100 each) or by Grand Company Seals (4,000 each [Captain Rank -> Materials])
I plan on taking it easy till 5.3. Join Hunt trains to cap on Nuts and to stock up on Yellow and White scrips. I'll deal with getting the rest of the Eureka weapons later. I only have 1 of those that I got just before Shadowbringers came out.
Now to figure out what to spend Poetics on. I have all jobs at 80 So I do not need it for gear. All of my Desynthesis Skills are level 460+ so I don’t have any gear I can purchase to desynthesis to level off of. Only thing I can think of is level 70 crafting/gearing gear or at least the mats to make them. Just a cursory glance at the market board and none of the rest of the gear is selling that often.
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