Collectables are any item with this symbol in their name and icon.


Their only purpose is to be turned in to NPCs for crafter/gatherer dailies or weeklies or Reduced into elemental crystals. There is a quest to unlock them in Ishgard at Lv50, "Inscrutable Tastes". Crafted collectables are always crafted as collectibles as of a ShB patch. Gathering collectibles will pop up a special collectables window when you try to gather them.