Difficulty obtaining Spirit Lance after Dark Ixion

[kcostell]

After getting the airship and my no-encounter weapon, I finally decided to go around and get Kimahri's spirit lance.

Find glowing stone #1 in the Southern plains, pray at it. Check.

Find glowing stone #2 in the Northern plains, pray at it. Check.

Talk to random guy in the northern plains, meet up with Dark Ixion. Chec...oops!

I noped my way right out of that battle (nice of the programmers to make that one Fleeable!), but that meant the encounters/lightning/everything else in the North was replaced by Ixion.

I tried cheesing my way through both halves of Ixion with Zanmato, but even afterwards none of the quactuar stones seem to be lighting up anymore.

Does fighting Dark Ixion break the Quactuar sidequest?

[Hinnyuu]

It shouldn't affect the quest. I don't think you have to pray at particular stones - AFAIK any three will do. If a stone doesn't light up, chances are you've already prayed at it.

Have you tried just going to the ruined tower where the Spirit Lance is hidden? The spirit is just there to guide you, it's not actually required that you follow it for any particular length.

[kcostell]

Doesn't seem to work. I've only prayed at 2 stones so far, so praying at the tower doesn't do anything yet. And none of the stones are ever lighting up, so I can't get the third stone.

[LadyScarletStar]

Unless you have done it already (as in get the lance) I presume you can't get the pieces anymore because some key items are locked when the Dark Aeons show up and even after beating them, they won't show up (at least that's what a redditors claimed but I haven't run into these problems so I can't say form sure if this is the case)

[Ice-Nine]

IIRC there are a number of different stones that can all be the third one, and it rotates through on a timer. Just stand by one of the third stones and wait for it to light up, then pray at it.

[Silamon]

Originally posted by LadyScarletStar:

Unless you have done it already (as in get the lance) I presume you can't get the pieces anymore because some key items are locked when the Dark Aeons show up and even after beating them, they won't show up (at least that's what a redditors claimed but I haven't run into these problems so I can't say form sure if this is the case)

This post is almost 2 years old, either OP got it already or doesn't care anymore.

[Casurin]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Originally posted by LadyScarletStar:

Unless you have done it already (as in get the lance) I presume you can't get the pieces anymore because some key items are locked when the Dark Aeons show up and even after beating them, they won't show up (at least that's what a redditors claimed but I haven't run into these problems so I can't say form sure if this is the case)

This post is almost 2 years old, either OP got it already or doesn't care anymore.

And what those "redditors" said is also wrong.
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