Novus Zodiac Weapons/Quest

(Lv. 50) Zodiac Weapons:	Base () → Zenith () → Atma () → Animus () → Novus () → Nexus () → Zodiac () → Zeta ()
(Lv. 60) Anima Weapons:	Animated () → Awoken () → Anima () → Hyperconductive () → Reconditioned () → Sharpened () → Complete () → Lux ()
(Lv. 70) Eurekan Weapons:	Antiquated → Base () → Base +1 → Base +2 → Anemos → Pagos () → Pagos +1 → Elemental → Elemental +1 () → Elemental +2 → Pyros → Hydatos () → Hydatos +1 → Base Eureka → Eureka → Physeos ()
(Lv. 80) Resistance Weapons:	Resistance () → Augmented Resistance () → Recollection () → Law's Order () → Augmented Law's Order () → Blade's ()
(Lv. 90) Manderville Weapons:	Manderville () → Amazing Manderville () → Majestic Manderville () → Mandervillous ()

(Lv. 70) Eurekan Armor:	Antiquated Artifact → Base Relic → Base +1 → Base +2 → Anemos • Elemental → Elemental +1 → Elemental +2
(Lv. 80) Resistance Armor:	Resistance → Augmented Resistance → Law's Order → Augmented Law's Order • Blade's

(Lv. 50) Mastercraft Tools:	Mastercraft () → Supra Tools → Lucis Tools
(Lv. 80) Skysteel Tools:	Skysteel () → Skysteel +1 () → Dragonsung () → Augmented () → Skysung () → Skybuilders' ( )
(Lv. 90) Splendorous Tools:	Splendorous () → Augmented Splendorous () → Crystalline () → Chora-Zoi's Crystalline () → Brilliant () → Vrandtic Visionary's ( ) → Lodestar ( )

Animus Zodiac
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iLvl 100

Novus Zodiac Weapons
Item Level	110	Patch	2.28
Starting Location	Jalzahn - Hyrstmill, North Shroud (X:30, Y:19)
Notable NPCs	Jalzahn - Hyrstmill, North Shroud (X:30, Y:19) Auriana - Revenant's Toll, Mor Dhona (X:22, Y:6) Mutamix Bubblypots - The Bonfire, Central Thanalan (X:23, Y:13) Hubairtin - The Bonfire, Central Thanalan (X:23, Y:13) Brangwine - Revenant's Toll, Mor Dhona (X:21, Y:6)
Quests	Celestial Radiance Star Light, Star Bright One Man's Trash Morbid Motivation
Reward

Nexus Zodiac
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iLvl 115

Pre-Requisite

Before beginning to create your Novus Zodiac Weapons, you must have completed your Animus Zodiac Weapon. Through the course of the quest you will need:

3 Superior Enchanted Ink or at least 75 Allagan Tomestone of Poetics.
Access to the Duty Roulette: Level 50/60/70/80 Dungeons.
The Decipher and Dig skills from Treasure Hunting.

This can be obtained from the quest

Treasures and Tribulations from H'loonh in Wineport, Eastern La Noscea (X:21, Y:21).

Possession of a large amount of materia (or substantial Gil to buy it off the Market Board).

Main Weapon Quest

Celestial Radiance

Starting NPC:

Jalzahn

Starting Location:

Hyrstmill, North Shroud (X:30, Y:19)

Speak with Jalzahn in Hyrstmill (X:30, Y:19) with your Animus Zodiac Weapon equipped. He will explain that it may be possible for your weapon to become stronger with materia but that conventional melding will not work due to the preclusive presence of soul energy.
Travel to Mutamix Bubblypots in The Bonfire, Central Thanalan (X:23, Y:13).
Speak with Mutamix Bubblypots's new disciple Hubairtin in The Bonfire, Central Thanalan (X:23, Y:13). His new technique involves converting the power of materia into a form of light energy. But for Hubairtin to apply the technique he needs some Superior Enchanted Ink.
Travel to Revenant's Toll in Mor Dhona and speak to Rowena (X:21, Y:5), she will tell you to go to Auriana (X:22.7, Y:6.6) to purchase three bottles of Superior Enchanted Ink for 25 Allagan Tomestone of Poetics each ( 75 Allagan Tomestone of Poetics in total).
Return to Hubairtin and hand over the bottles of Superior Enchanted Ink and he will create a Sphere Scroll for your Animus Zodiac Weapon - which will serve as the blueprint for your Novus Zodiac Weapon.

Star Light, Star Bright

Starting NPC:

Hubairtin

Starting Location:

The Bonfire, Central Thanalan (X:23, Y:13)

An example of a completed Thyrus Novus Sphere Scroll

Melding materia onto a Thyrus Novus Sphere Scroll

Jalzahn will then explain the task of building your Novus Zodiac Weapon using your Sphere Scroll. Unlike all other weapon or equipment in Eorzea you have the freedom to customize the secondary stats of your Novus Zodiac Weapon as you like. You need to successfully bind a total of 75 materia to complete your Sphere Scroll in order to create your weapon. Each materia requires a special reagent called Alexandrite. After speaking to Jalzahn, the quest will move to your "completed quest log". Once you have completed your scroll, return to Jalzahn who will finalise and create your new Novus Zodiac Weapon.

Materia

The materia you bind directly affects the stat that is increased:

Stat	Materia
Direct Hit Rate	Heavens' Eye Materia
Skill Speed	Quickarm Materia
Critical Hit	Savage Aim Materia
Piety	Piety Materia
Determination	Savage Might Materia
Spell Speed	Quicktongue Materia
Tenacity	Battledance Materia

Notes:

At the start only level 1 materias can be used. As more of a particular stats / materia are added: the binding success rate decrease until you are forced to use a higher grade / level materia. Unsuccessful bindings will destroy the materia used but never the Alexandrite.
Each successful meld infuses the stat of materia into the scroll, granting it 1 point in the corresponding stat.
You can only fuse materia of higher grades after completing a previous "tier". For stats that have a max of 44, a tier is 11 materia; the first 6 in the tier have a 100% chance of melding, followed by a 96% chance, 90% chance, 82% chance, 72% chance, and finally, a 60% chance. For example, you would need to have 8 successful infusions of a grade 1 materia before being able to start infusing grade 2 materia.
There is a cap on the maximum points you can put in a secondary stat and depends on your class.
The scroll can be infused with a maximum of five different secondary stats.
Your Novus Zodiac Weapon will only have the secondary stats that you put onto it - no secondary stats are transferred across from your Animus Zodiac Weapon. The only exception to this is with the healer's weapons Omnilex Novus and Thyrus Novus which get +9 Direct Hit Rate regardless.

Alexandrite

See also: Mysterious Map

Alexandrite is a special reagent used to convert and bind the materia to the Sphere Scroll, with 75 Alexandrite required for each individual weapon other than the paladin set, which requires 53 for Curtana Novus and 22 for the Holy Shield Novus. They can be gathered in three ways:

Completing FATEs with a Animus Zodiac Weapon equipped (as before).
Purchasing from a Hunt Billmaster in either Ul'dah, Gridania or Limsa Lominsa for 50 Allied Seals.
From treasure chests from Mysterious Maps. You can obtain up to 5 Alexandrite per Mysterious Map. Mysterious Maps can be obtained through:

The daily quest Morbid Motivation which requires you to complete a Duty Roulette: Level 50/60/70/80 Dungeons.
Purchase from Auriana in Revenant's Toll for 75 Allagan Tomestone of Poetics.

Mysterious Maps are similar to normal Timeworn Maps and requires the use of Decipher and Dig skills from Treasure Hunting. These can be obtained from the quest Treasures and Tribulations from H'loonh in Wineport, Eastern La Noscea (X:21, y21). You will need to decipher the map, and travel to the location shown in the map before digging to find a treasure chest. Upon opening a treasure chest, the mysterious map will be destroyed and monsters will spawn. You will need to kill all the monsters before you can open the chest.

Notes:

Alexandrite will drop randomly from any FATE completed with at least a Gold Rating.
You must be equipped with a Animus Zodiac Weapon in order to get Alexandrite from FATEs; however this can be any Animus Zodiac Weapon / job.
You do not need to equip your Animus Zodiac Weapon whilst completing Mysterious Maps.
Players can complete the Mysterious Map with the help of a party but only the owner of the map will receive the Alexandrite. Other party members will get some gil.
Since patch 3.0, Mysterious Maps can yield up to 5 pieces of Alexandrite per map.
Bystanders that are not in your party cannot attack the Mysterious Map monsters - but healers are still able to heal you.
Alexandrite goes into your normal inventory rather than your Key Item inventory. Make sure you have free space in your inventory.
A Chocobo Companion can be used to make the battle easier.
Allied Seals can be obtained by partaking in The Hunt, killing Elite Mark targets, or by participating in various Blue Mage activities, including The Masked Carnivale and the Blue Mage Log, both of which offer large amounts of weekly seals.

Mysterious Map Quests

One Man's Trash

Main article: One Man's Trash (Quest)

Morbid Motivation

Main article: Morbid Motivation

Mysterious Maps

Main article: Mysterious Map

Novus Zodiac Weapons Stat Caps

With the exception of Paladin's Curtana Novus and Holy Shield Novus, each weapon can have a maximum of 75 secondary stat points added. The maximum for the Curtana Novus is 53 points and the Holy Shield Novus is 22 points. The weapon's 5 main stats (Vitality, Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Mind) upgrade automatically. The Omnilex Novus and Thyrus Novus will receive a base +9 Direct Hit Rate automatically. Each secondary stat has its own cap which varies between stat and weapon / class. The table are the caps for each weapon with the level and number of materias required below the cap.

Disciples of War Novus Zodiac Weapons & Shields

Item	Direct Hit Rate				Skill Speed				Critical Hit				Piety				Determination				Spell Speed				Tenacity
Curtana Novus	31				31				31				17				22				31				31
Curtana Novus	7	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	6	6	5	0	5	6	6	5	-	-	-	-	7	8	8	8
Holy Shield Novus	13				13				13				7				9				13				13
Holy Shield Novus	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	2	2	3	0	2	2	2	3	-	-	-	-	4	3	3	3
Sphairai Novus	44				44				44				??				31				??				??
Sphairai Novus	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	11	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bravura Novus	44				44				44				31				31				??				44
Bravura Novus	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	-	7	8	8	8	-	-	-	-	11	11	11	11
Gae Bolg Novus	44				44				44				??				44				??				??
Gae Bolg Novus	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Artemis Bow Novus	44				44				44				??				44				??				??
Artemis Bow Novus	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Yoshimitsu Novus	44				44				44				31				44				44				44
Yoshimitsu Novus	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	8	0	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Materia	Heavens' Eye				Quickarm				Savage Aim				Piety				Savage Might				Quicktongue				Battledance

Disciples of Magic Novus Zodiac Weapons

Item	Direct Hit Rate				Skill Speed				Critical Hit				Piety				Determination				Spell Speed				Tenacity
Stardust Rod Novus	44				??				44				23				31				44				??
Stardust Rod Novus	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	11	11	11	5	6	6	6	7	8	8	8	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-
The Veil of Wiyu Novus	44				44				44				31				44				44				44
The Veil of Wiyu Novus	11	11	11	11	-	-	-	-	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	0	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Omnilex Novus	35				44				44				44				31				44				33
Omnilex Novus	2	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	7	8	8	8	11	11	11	11	8	8	8	9
Thyrus Novus	35				44				44				33				31				44				44
Thyrus Novus	2	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	7	8	8	8	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Materia	Heavens' Eye				Quickarm				Savage Aim				Piety				Savage Might				Quicktongue				Battledance

Altering Weapon Stats

Players can alter their stats after finishing the Novus Zodiac Weapon:

Obtain a new Sphere Scroll for your desired weapon.
Speak with Jalzahn in Hyrstmill (X:29, Y:19) with your Novus Zodiac Weapon equipped and select the option "Weapon Novus Modification"; Jalzahn will transfer all your current Weapon Novus stats to the clean scroll and make it full with 75 melds.
Speak to Hubairtin in The Bonfire (X:23, Y:13) for materia removal. He will remove 1 point of chosen stat per action from the Sphere Scroll.
Proceed as normal with materia and alexandrite to make your new melds.

Upgrade To Nexus Zodiac Weapons

Main article: Nexus Zodiac Weapons

See also: Nexus Zodiac Weapons/Quest

After obtaining a Novus Zodiac Weapon (iLvl 110), it can be upgraded to a Nexus Zodiac Weapon (iLvl 115) by gathering light for your weapon in the quest Mmmmmm, Soulglazed Relics.

End Game Progression

Content Unlock • Eureka Gear Guide • Level 100 Gear Guide
Zodiac Weapons • Anima Weapons • Eurekan Weapons • Eurekan Armor
Resistance Weapons • Resistance Armor • Manderville Weapons
Mastercraft Tools • Skysteel Tools • Resplendent Tools • Splendorous Tools