Phaenna Ex+ missions

[Edweirdo]

I got my board on release day and have sold three since. I know that sounds jerky, but my intent here is to show how easy it can be with full info.

Forget crafting EX+. I can get gold on those with pentamelded crested gear but it's still too rng-heavy and frustrating. I would only recommend it if you really enjoy expert crafting for some reason (with food, tisane and pentamelded crested)

EX+ gathering (MIN and BTN) I can gold every single time with ample time left. Here are the details:

-Pentamlended crested gear but use the relic main hand for the collectible bonus.
- Rain weather botanist mission, cloudy weather miner mission OR
- 12:00-3:59, 20:00-11:59 time restricted missions
-Weather missions are best imo because weather can last a long time and, unlike time restricted, you don't have to reduce. The mission just scores as you collect.
- I only use 4 abilties. Only meticulous for increasing collectibility. Only spend GP on the plus integrity ("extra whack") and use the bonus when it procs. The forth ability is the duty action, which you can just use before meticulous whenever it's available. Use Hi-cordial after the first node.
-For the time restricted missions, aim to begin your reductions around 3:00 to meet the 2:10 gold time. As you do these, you will get a feel for when you can start reducing earlier based on luck at your first couple nodes.

Good luck! Gear is important. I have shared this with many people in game and testimonies are that getting even silver with everseekers is difficult. With penta crested, it's gold every time.

Yeah, i'm going to try Ty for the tips ! I mostly focused on crafter missions, bc honestly i didn't even plan to deal with gatherer stuff, the constant no gp while i was on the moon got me sick of it very fast, but i know they changed the gp regen now hoping its going to be better ! In the process of unlocking missions on my gatherers.

[Hyperia]

I fell behind on gear and I only have 2M in the bank so it sounds like doing this content is going to not be possible for me. A shame, the first part was fun, but I was struggling near the end. I dont have the resources or the time to go after a current full pentamelded gear set. I wish the vendor script gear would have been sufficient.

[Merton9999]

Yep! They changed it so you get all the GP you used during a mission back after you complete it! And the cordial timer gets reset too. So basically you are starting fresh with each repeat.

I belive new vendor scrip gear comes out soon. It's usually not too far after the crafted set is released. It will have the same base stats as crested, just no pentameld option. I would guess gold or silver would be possible with the EX+ gathering missions with the newest scrip gear, so give it a shot! Silver is 4x multiplier compared to the x5 for gold, so really not too many more repeats for going for that board.

gl!

[Edweirdo]

Well gathering is somewhat more doable , but The gathering ex+ missions have so much rng it's crazy to me! Like completely reliant on random procs to fill the collectable bar,rng on meticulous/integrity usage,rng for the "extra whack" ,rng on how many items you get from aetherial reduction, if it's not max collectability you get basically nothing for it ,and if rng is not on ur side for the first few nodes then u wont have gp for the rest,so the mission is failed.
I have improved my gear on crafters too, pentamelded+food+tisane ,but crafter ex+missions are still undoable ...Idk who tested these, but I'm really sick of this.

[Fynlar]

They are just simply hard crafts, even with the best possible stuff. They are more about how well you can make use of the expert craft conditions and (to a degree) how well RNG favors you. It's meant to be a challenge, and sometimes you won't hit full quality even if you do everything right. As someone who's golded all of the currently available Phaenna missions (and all the ones on Sinus Ardorum, which also had similarly difficult crafts of their own), I can say that if you cannot ever complete them fully i750 geared/fooded/potted even over multiple attempts, the stats are not the problem and you are likely approaching the crafts themselves sub-optimally. I recommend watching others do/narrate over the crafts to get an idea of what you should be doing and the thought processes behind their choices. I referred to this video a lot when trying to finish golding all of the Sinus Ardorum missions (this video was back in the Everseekers era so the i750 gear wasn't even out yet, but how you do the crafts doesn't really change now, just the quality values you need to hit before going for your finisher will be slightly lower)

Gathering is RNG too, but not only is there is a more streamlined "process"/flowchart to what you should be doing (and no hugely random element like expert craft conditions at play), it's much less rigid about enforcing you to do things a specific way, to the point where you can often still succeed simply by just meeting the recommended gathering value (I think it was 5470 gathering) for the +70 collectability bonus, spamming Meticulous, and only using your GP on your "extra attempt" ability -- so there's much less brainpower involved. You still definitely aren't meant to be able to consistently gold them every time, but it takes a lot more bad luck to prevent you from doing so -- and even then, even if you *could* still reach gold, because of the much faster/rapidfire nature of the gathering missions, a lot of times it is better to just turn in the mission early and take a lower rank (especially silver, which isn't worth that much less than gold anyway in terms of rewards) just so you can get your GP/cordial back and start again.

[Edweirdo]

Well ima grind out the cosmoboard, and unless they do something revolutionary, i'm not touching this content again ! Boring, tedious,annoying RNG ridden unrewarding experience ! Unless you're a completionist and really want to do some of this stuff yourself, then i guess go for it ,but otherwise i don't recommend this content !Save your precious time and sanity ,buy the mounts from mb if you want them (their price is plummeting continuously ) and enjoy your day !
I actually got star contributor ,and other than the temporary hologram on the "wall of shame" you get nothing for it...no title, no reward, no buff that would give you a slight advantage, just some temporary visual clutter...very disappointing !

[Themarvin]

Just farm for the board with gatherers, the fishing, Botanist and Mining is rather easy.