Cosmic Exploration: Auxesia - Incorrect Potential Conditions List

Date & Time: 6/4/2026
Frequency: Continuous
World name: Excalibur
Character name: Peridot Grayflame
Retainer name: n/a
NPC name: n/a
Monster name: n/a
Class/Level: Level 100 CRP/BSM/ARM/GSM/LTW/WVR/ALC/CUL
Party or solo: Solo
In-game time: Weather is Clouds or Clear Skies
Area and coordinates: Cosmic Exploration: Auxesia
Housing: n/a

Steps:
1. Initiate EX+ Weather-restricted Mission (EX+: Purified Biofuel Development / EX+: Aetheric Gauge Development II / EX+: Cosmic Operator Suits / EX+: Explorer Suits / EX+: Renewable Resource Development).
2. Right click the Expert Recipe craft in the crafting list, and click Potential Conditions List option. (Purified Biofuel / Survey Aetheric Magnifying Glass / Survey Operator Suit / Survey Explorer Suit / Survey Concrete / Survey Adhesive)
3. Review the Potential Conditions List, which lists "Normal, Good, Excellent, Poor".
3. Attempt the mission normally.
4. Even after multiple attempts, "Excellent" condition (and the subsequent "Poor" condition), will not appear.


Additional details:
I have conferred with multiple other players that have also confirmed this behavior on their end, and we have concluded that this potential condition list is not reflective of the actual conditions the craft can produce.


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I have tried these missions numerous times and experienced the same.

I suspect that "Excellent" and "Poor" are just coded to not actually show up for Expert crafts (have their probability weighting set to 0 or something). The "Good" condition is appearing as expected, including consecutively (which only occurs on Expert crafts and not regular crafts).

I think these might be the only Expert crafts with Good/Excellent/Poor as the conditions available, which makes me wonder what the intention was:

• It is supposed to be a regular craft rather than an Expert craft
• It is supposed to be an Expert craft, but the Excellent condition doesn't show up correctly
• It is supposed to be an Expert craft, but the list of conditions is set incorrectly (i.e. it's not supposed to have other Expert craft conditions instead of Excellent/Poor)

+1

It would surprise me that we're expected to get to 26k quality with only good condition appearing scarcely. All I can think of is that it's supposed to be an expert recipe with the usual expert conditions, or a regular craft with the usual conditions.

Or the devs are sadists and I absolutely have no idea how to achieve those quests.


Edit: It's confirmed as a bug, we should have Expert conditions instead of standard conditions.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ia#post6818962