Splendorous Tools Stage Six Guide for FFXIV

The final upgrade quest is now available if you speak to Chora-Zoi called Stand Tool, My Friend.

Just like all other stages, speak to Quinnana in The Crystarium(X: 10.4, Y: 7.8) to exchange your finished expert crafts for components. This time being called Nightforged components.

Crafting classes will again need to complete expert crafting to finish their Splendorous Tools. Unfortunately, as mentioned in stage 5, you can not use Trained Eye to skip the majority of this crafting stage.

Crafting classes are required to craft collectables to exchange for Nightforged components. Due to these being expert crafts, the amount of components needed is not guaranteed.

Each craft uses a material purchased with White Scrips which can be found in the Other tab on the Scrip Exchange while speaking to Quinnana. It will cost you 70 scrips for every craft meaning 1400 - 4200 white scrips per class.

Click here for a crafting list i created for these tools.

As with all other stages, I would advise getting to level 100 first. This makes this final step much easier due to having higher stats and therefore more reliable macros. Otherwise you will need to react to procs and conditions while manually crafting.

Much like stage 5, lower stats can only hit Tier 2 collectability with macros. This is only further emphasised with the Pliant and Malleable conditions which make macros harder due to needing to be considered so that they do not break the craft. Stat requirements: 4374/4169/603 + HQ Rroneek Steak and HQ Cunning Craftsman's Tisane.

This Tier 3 macro for the final stage has significantly higher stat requirements compared to the previous stage so make sure you hit the requirements before crafting. With current endgame stats, this does need to be 3 separate macros but this will be eased with future gear. Stat requirements: 4698/4745/626 + HQ Rroneek Steak and HQ Cunning Craftsman's Tisane.

Gathering classes will need to gather two materials, collectables that you reduce or exchange for Nightforged components as well as Nightforged Clusters to be handed in at the end of the quest.

220 of both of these items are needed, with collectables giving one or three depending on the collectability rating of 580 for 1 and 1000 for 3.

Do not forget you can use Aetherial Reduction on a collectable at 1000 rating which gives more!

Class	Collectable 220(When Reduced)	Hidden Item 220
Mining	Connoisseur's Raw Onyx	Nightforged Ice Cluster
Botany	Connoisseur's Glimshroom	Nightforged Water Cluster

Mining materials can be found in The Tempest (X:34.3, Y:23).

Botany materials can be found in The Tempest (X:37.6, Y:13.7).

These nodes introduce more node bonuses and skill breakpoints you may want to consider when planning your food. Do not forget you need to consider these numbers after you have your relic equipped. These are:

• 30-50% Boon Bonus - 3650-3900 Perception.
• +1 Integrity - 920GP.
• 50 - 150 Collectability increase - 3610 - 4045 Gathering.
• +50 - 100% Intuition Increase - 3820 - 4035 Perception.
• Collectable Skills Cap - 4033 Gathering.
• Collectable Skill Proc Chance Cap - 4245 Gathering and Perception.
• Scrutiny Cap - 4033 Gathering and Perception.
• 60% Boon cap - 6368 Perception

Do not forget, reduction is more optimal for these items as you have a chance at a bonus. While you are waiting on GP, you can ignore the node and move on to the next node to spawn clusters faster and search for the collectability increase, intuition increase and integrity node bonus. All three are great for your yield.

This step introduces a new node bonus alongside the collectability bonus added last stage, offering 50-100 increase in how much collectability intuition offers. The exact increase depends on your perception but makes it easy for skills to give over half of your required collectability!

The most important thing is Cordial use. Hi-Cordial is the most efficient Cordial, and using it on cooldown will increase your yield drastically.

Aim for the crystals when possible, because they are not always guaranteed to appear, but do not spend your GP on them. Skills that increase Crystal/Cluster yield do not work on these items.

Check out our gathering collectables guide for collectable rotations.

Fishing classes will be tasked with obtaining 170 Nightforged Fisher's Component for this stage from two different fish. The first fish, Little Bounty, offering one or two components and the second fish, Saint Fathric's Face, offering three or four components. Both exist in the same hole with Saint Fathric's Face being an intuition fish which requires three Little Bounty for a 3 minute intuition window.

These fish can be found in Il Mheg - saint Fathrics Temple (X: 35, Y:26).

Fish	Collectability for T1	T1 Rewards	Collectability for T2	T2 Rewards
Little Bounty	9 - 20	1 Component	21+	2 Components
Saint Fathric's Face	384 - 901	3 Components	902+	4 Components

The bait for these fish is Select Bait Ball which can be purchased from Quinnana.

These fish can both easily be caught using the exact same macro and method.

You want to use Patience II with Precision Hookset on every '!' bite within the first 7.5 seconds of your cast to catch and then mooch Little Bounty. When you obtain the intuition buff, use Powerful Hookset on '!!' bites until around 7.5 seconds after you cast.

Do not hook anything after the 8 second mark.

The following macro makes it easy to catch Little Bounty, it is exactly the same as other previous stages. When you do get intuition I would recommend avoiding a macro so that you do not miss any Saint Fathric's Face

/ac "cast" <wait.5>
/e 5 <wait.1>
/e 6 <wait.1>
/e 7 <wait.1>
/e 8
/ac "Precision Hookset"
/micon "Cast"