Phantom Weapons Penumbrae/Quest
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Prerequisites
Before beginning to create a Phantom Weapon Penumbrae, players must:
- complete Main Scenario Quests:
Dawntrail - complete Side Quest:
Unfamiliar Territory (part of Occult Crescent Quests) - reach level 100 for your chosen job as a Disciple of War or Disciple of Magic .
The two quests for the first stage of the Phantom Weapons, which require farming 18 demiatma, have to be completed only once. After that, all weapons can be bought from a vendor with three pieces of arcanite, which cost 
500 Allagan Tomestones of Heliometry each.
Gerolt needs three each of six kinds of demiatma, or 18 demiatma total. There are two ways to obtain these. Players may mix-and-match both options if they wish.
Option 1: Occult Crescent FATEs and Critical Encounters
Either complete FATEs and Critical Encounters in 
The Occult Crescent: South Horn. The type of demiatma that drops depends on the region in which the fight takes place, as shown in the following map:
More specifically:
 Azurite Demiatma
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 Verdigris Demiatma
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 Malachite Demiatma
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 Realgar Demiatma
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 Caput Mortuum Demiatma
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 Orpiment Demiatma
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Verdigris Demiatma will likely be a bottleneck in Occult Crescent because only 1 CE can drop it, so players may opt to finish farming these via FATEs in Kozama'uka (see below).
Advantages of this option are that CEs have a higher demiatma drop rate than FATEs (both inside and outside Occult Crescent) and players can also use this time to progress within Occult Crescent, such as leveling up phantom jobs, without needing to go out of their way to farm demiatma.
Option 2: Dawntrail zone FATEs
Or complete FATEs in Dawntrail (7.0) overworld zones:
| Demiatma | Zone |
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| Azurite Demiatma |
Urqopacha |
| Verdigris Demiatma |
Kozama'uka |
| Malachite Demiatma |
Yak T'el |
| Realgar Demiatma |
Shaaloani |
| Caput Mortuum Demiatma |
Heritage Found |
| Orpiment Demiatma |
Living Memory |
One advantage of this option is that players can more easily target demiatma types they still need, as using exclusively Occult Crescent and doing FATEs and CEs as they spawn will likely result in an excess of one or more demiatma types. A second advantage is that players can use this opportunity to level other jobs if they wish, because they do not need to be level 100 to receive demiatma from overworld FATEs.
In both cases, the drop rates are low, and obtaining all demiatmas will take multiple hours of farming. In the overworld zones, getting one demiatma to drop requires, on average, one to two hours of continuous FATE farming. Fortunately, this is a one-time grind and does not need to be repeated for future weapons.
According to Square Enix in Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXXVII, CEs have a 20% demiatma drop rate and FATEs (both inside and outside of Occult Crescent) have a 5% drop rate. Thus, on average, players can expect to obtain 1 demiatma per 5 CEs or per 20 FATEs completed. There are currently no plans to change the drop rates, but this is subject to change in the future.
As this is a one-time grind, any demiatma past the 3 required per type has no use.
If opting to farm FATEs, make sure to keep 
600 Bicolor Gemstones on hand, as they will be needed for the Umbrae upgrade step.
- Purchase 3
Arcanite from Ermina in Phantom Village (X:6.9, Y:7.3). Each costs 500 Allagan Tomestones of Heliometry, or 1,500 tomestones total. - Deliver the requisite arcanite to Dodokkuli.
This quest consists only of buying the Arcanite and trading those for the desired Phantom weapon. All other weapons can thereafter be acquired in the same way, without the need to accept and complete a repeatable quest as in previous expansions.
Achievements
Phantom Weapons Penumbrae are associated with the following achievements:
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