Last week I poked through the gear wall in Dawntrail's patch 7.2 with drops from The Underkeep. On Sunday I smashed the wall as I finished crafting the Ceremonial healing set, the IL 740 crafted gear used by Final Fantasy XIV's raiders to begin running patch 7.2 raid content. Given all the running around I had to do, I'm happy I managed to acquire the gear only 5 days after all the hardcore raiders did.
The set consists of 11 pieces: a weapon, 5 main pieces (head, body, hands, legs, feet) and 5 accessories:
- Ceremonial Wand
- Ceremonial Hood of Healing
- Ceremonial Tunic of Healing
- Ceremonial Gloves of Healing
- Ceremonial Hose of Healing
- Ceremonial Thighboots of Healing
- Ceremonial Earring of Healing
- Ceremonial Necklace of Healing
- Ceremonial Bangle of Healing
- Ceremonial Ring of Healing
- Ceremonial Ring of Healing
The materials for crafting fell into three main categories: existing gatherables, patch 7.2 gatherables, and duty materials.
The first group was easy since I'm a pack rat and had most of them lying around the cottage. The list consisted of:
- Levinsilk (5)
- Gargantua Hide (16)
- Acacia Bark (4)
- Raw Black Star (6)
- Magnesia Powder (8)
- Claro Walnut Log (20)
- Yak T'el Spring Water (6)
- Pearl Grass (6)
- Wind Parsley (6)
Next up is a sub-section of the existing gatherables, the aethersands:
- Mythloam Aethersand (5)
- Mythroot Aethersand (3)
- Mythbrine Aethersand (3)
- Sungilt Aethersand (6)
Aethersand is acquired in two ways. The first is through an advanced gathering mechanic known Aetherial Reduction. The other is through going to a vendor and purchasing them using orange gathering scrips. The Sungilt Aethersands cost 100 orange scrips while the others cost 200 orange scrips each. All told, that's 2800 orange gathering scrips, or about 3 weeks worth of scrips from doing the custom deliveries for Nitowikwe and Margrat.
Up next were the new materials gatherer from the new Folklore nodes introduced in patch 7.2. Each node only spawns once every 12 game hours at a time. Oh, and to unlock the botany or mining legendary nodes for each region requires 1600 purple scrips, or 9600 total scrips including the fishing spots. Never forget fishing because a lot of the top crafting and gathering food includes a hidden out-of-the way fish as an ingredient. Gathering isn't that painful as one node will appear every 5 minutes in real time. Just be prepared to spend either a lot of gil or a lot of aetheryte tokens zipping from zone to zone.
The five new materials required were:
- Cochineal Pigment (40)
- Shaaloani Coffee (36)
- Raw Rhodochrosite (24)
- Cordia Log (12)
- Octahedrite (10)
- Fulgurite (8)
And finally, the last group of materials required. I know running the duty roulette is a much faster way of obtaining Allagan Tomestone of Heliometry, but as bad as I am at running dungeons I hid away from the world and ran The Underkeep 17 times in order to get the 1360 tomestones I needed to purchase the materials. Each one cost 20 tomestones.
- Diatryma Pelt (20)
- Cronopio Skin (18)
- Neo Abrasive (12)
- Hydrophobic Preservative (10)
- Shaaloani Coke (8)
And this is what I had to do in order to advance in the MSQ. Well, it is if I want a decent shot at getting through Recollection without frustrating everyone in my party. Now, if real life will just let up a bit so I have an hour or two solid time to try running the new trial.