Guide to Field Operation: Occult Crescent

Occult Crescent is new Field Operations content releasing on the 27th of May 2025 in Patch 7.25 of Dawntrail. Expected to function similarly to The Forbidden Land, Eureka and Save The Queen, up to 72 players will work together to explore the unmapped terrain and battle against the isle's inhabitants.

The first zone, Occult Crescent: South Horn was showcased at the recent Live Letter.

Exploration and Combat are the main focus of Occult Crescent, and will be how players progress. By partaking in battles, players can raise their Knowledge Level, which will greatly influence the outcome of battles on the isle through changes to damage dealt and taken. Additionally, similar to Eureka, players can lose EXP if they are not raised by another player after death. Players must have a Combat job at level 100 to enter and must have completed the Main Story Quest Dawntrail.

Identical to Skirmishes in Save The Queen, FATEs will continuously occur on the isle, which can be completed solo or collaboratively with other players.

Once enough Skirmishes have been completed, a Critical Encounter will spawn, which have more challenging mechanics and grant greater rewards when completed.

Once enough progression has been made, players will unlock a unique raid called Forked Tower that can be tackled by up to 48 players at a time. This content will have entry limitations and raise restrictions, similar to The Baldesion Arsenal.

In the recent Live Letter, new mechanics have been revealed, such as Magic Pots that are expected to function similarly to the Happy Bunny FATEs in Eureka.

Special currencies can also be earned through participating in the content, functioning similarly to Anemos Crystals and Protean Crystals from Eureka Anemos.

Similar to Eureka, mobs can be chain-killed to increase the amount of EXP gained by killing them.

Additionally, in order to prevent the issues suffered in Eureka where players with too large a level difference between them would be unable to earn EXP if in a party together, a Level Sync button has been added that freely allows players to lower their Knowledge Level temporarily in order to allow the party to gain full EXP from all sources.

Unique to this content, players can equip power-ups known as Phantom Jobs that give access to new actions. These can be equipped independently of a player's main job. Each Phantom Job has special actions that can be unlocked by levelling it up, and these jobs can be changed at any time.

Players will start with the Freelancer Phantom Job unlocked, and will obtain Bard, Knight and Monk shortly afterwards. From there on, the remaining Phantom Jobs (such as Time Mage, shown below) must be unlocked manually through progressing the content.

The first area will be releasing in Patch 7.25, coming on the 27th of May 2025. More Phantom Jobs will be added in Patch 7.45, and the second area will be released in 7.55. Patches .25, .35, .45 and .55 will all include Phantom Relic Weapon updates.

It is not currently know exactly what rewards will be available outside of the expected Phantom Relic Weapons. Expect this space to be updated once we know more!