Revelations Strategy Guide FFXI

[Daemon]

Empyrean Weapon Trials

One of the most horrible parts of doing Emp trials is the NM camping phase. So I wanted to give you some tips on how you can achieve this without wasting your entire day. First off motivation comes from within and only you have the ability to reach your goals if you put your mind to it. So don't give up and be consistent with a little bit of time management you should be able to accomplish this.

Several of these Trials have NMs that take several hours to spawn. Some maps spawn the same NM in 2 areas of the map.

Tip: Notorious monsters have place holders. Usually 1 mob on the list.

I highly suggest subbing a job with "Wide Scan" as this will help you find them faster and save you time.

For Lottery Spawn NMs, here are a few suggestions.

1. Check the map to see if people are there farming the same trial as you.
2. Find out what time of day or morning the map is empty.
3. Know how long the NM takes to spawn. For example Gargantua takes 1-7 Hours.

Have you ever camped a spot where you killed 1 place holder and the NM popped 5 minutes later? Most likely the respawn timer of that NM passed without anyone farming lottery mobs during that period.

This is why I listed that you find out the time when the map is empty.

Kill the place holder for about 3-5 rounds, if the NM does not spawn, leave the map and come back later.
If you repeat this strategy during the day when the map is empty you can manage your time to doing other things than sit all day waiting for 1 NM to pop.

For NMs that take several hours, break it down. Say the NM can spawn up to 7 hours. You can kill the place holder a few times and if the NM does not spawn, come back 2 hours later and repeat this during the 7 hour phase. Again this works well during the time the map is empty.

This also is a good technique when doing multiple trials.

Check before you log out, you may get lucky and pop the trial NM if no one has been on the map farming several hours beforehand.

Voidwalker
For doing this part of the trial you are required to have color abbysite for T2 and a specific color for T3. In the case of T2 Color abbysite I would like to explain that you can pop the T2 VNM a few times but risk the chance of changing the abbysite into T3. Always make sure you are carrying a Clear abbysite T1 while doing T2. Once your T2 changes into T3, do not spawn the T3 VNM so you can work on changing your T1 Abbysite into a Color Abbysite. That way once your abbysite changes to T2 you can continue to spawn T2 VNMs as many times as you want until the trial ends.

For those of you working on T3 trials, the best way to accomplish this is to either buy T3 pops or request a group of LS friends to help you as T3 VNMs can only be spawned once with one T3 Abbysite.

Now that you have finished the VNM phase you now need to work on collecting items from NMs such as Sedna, Sobek, Briarius.

For you to pass these trials quickly you will need to lead your own parties as many players need these trial items, it's very difficult to find anyone willing to give them to you. Several of these trial NMs can attract many players as +2's, Atma, Gear and Zone Boss Wins can help you find members wanting to join quickly.

There are 3 approaches to doing these trials. You can either farm Key Items through NMs, some Key items can be farmed through Gold Chest, or you can shout in town asking players to sell you their KI's and pop it for you.

With the Gil Guide I've included in the earlier post, you should be able to make enough gil to buy Kis from players which will save you a huge amount of time so you can earn the trial items needed and be on your way to earning your new EMP Weapon.

One of my trials was collecting Kukulkan Fangs. I was able to collect 25 fangs in 1 day. So it's possible to breeze through these trials depending on your drive.

Important Note: Although many arguments are being made that Empyrean Weapons are a waste of time due to Delve. I highly encourage you to do them anyway. Having an extra weaponskill doesn't hurt to have. Maybe in the future "IF " SE decides to allow players to unlock the weaponskill, atleast you will be prepared to take advantage of the opportunity right away.

Tip: Now would be the best time to do them, since many players have lost interest in doing these trials. All maps may have less competition. Therefore making it easier to follow the above advice on managing your time to get them done.