Experimenting With Blue Mage In The Moogle Treasure Trove Event

With patch 7.3 a month away in Final Fantasy XIV's Dawntrail expansion Square Enix launched another Moogle Treasure Trove event yesterday. I plan on participating more in the lead up to patch 7.3 than I have recently due to two factors: prizes and experimenting with the Blue Mage limited job.

For the current event I have a list of six items I'm interested in obtaining:

• Ruby Gwiber Trumpet (mount) - 50 irregular tomestones
• Ironfrog Mover Ignition Key (mount) - 50 irregular tomestones
• Modern Aesthetics - Gyr Abanian Plait - 50 irregular tomestones
• Ephemeral Necromancer (minion) - 50 irregular tomestones
• Ballroom Etiquette - Overzealous Affirmation - 30 irregular tomestones
• Toro-jiro (minion) - 7 irregular tomestones

The Ruby Gwiber is a wurm/dragon while the Ironfrog Mover reminds me of a cute segment of the main story questine so those are my initial targets. Overall I need to acquire 237 tomestones. Usually I wouldn't even think a acquiring that many. But in addition to some of the regular goals like performing society requests and fishing, I'm going to try to put my newly learned Blue Mage skills to the test.

I had heard through the years the power of the Blue Mage in Moogle Treasure Trove events. At this point I've completed the level 50 stages of The Masked Carnivale so I'm at least familiar with the limited job. Unfortunately I don't have the full kit of dungeon running spells. Which is where the current Moogle event enters the picture.

Normally when running lower level dungeons solo I don't use level sync. I just want the drops and all the Grand Company seals they generate to power my army of retainers. But now I have two additional reason for using level sync. First, when Blue Mages run a dungeon with the option turned on learning spells from NPCs occurs 100% of the time. The second is more relevant to the event. The only way a Blue Mage can earn the irregular tomestones, whether playing solo or in a pre-made group, is if level sync is turned on.

So, for example, I still need to learn Aetheric Mimicry, a core Blue Mage spell for running dungeons. The spell drops from the first boss in Pharos Sirius (Hard). So if I make one successful run of Pharos Sirius (Hard), I'll get Aetheric Mimicry, 4 irregular tomestones, and whatever drops to convert into seals.

The weekly objective gives a bit of a bonus this week. I've wanted to do Castrum Meridianum just in general. Not only does the duty give 4 tomestones but the weekly objective reward adds in 20 more. Hopefully next week's objective is The Praetorium, which gives out 7 tomestones.

Teams of Blue Mages can make short work of a dungeon, so I'm sure one will emerge as the most efficient one to run. But I have the feeling the tomestones will roll in as I work to get all the spells I'm missing. At least, I hope so.