The Aery

Overview

• Origin: Final Fantasy XIV
• Type: Equipment Enhancement Event
• Reference: Announcement
• Event Period: 5/14/20 00:00 - 5/27/20 23:59 PST
• Boosted Unique Modifier: Ul'dahn Falchion, Cobalt Winglet, Elements, Budding Maple Wand, Lunaris Rod, Golden Eye, Guts Knuckle, Inferno Saber, Inferno Saber+, Inferno Saber++, Dragon Wing Bow, Dragon Wing Bow+, Diabolos's Rod, Diabolos's Rod+, Fierce Goddess's Katana, Fierce Goddess's Katana+, Ice Demon's Katana, Ice Demon's Katana+, Ice Demon's Katana++, Knight Rider's Blade, Knight Rider's Blade+, Wind Sprite's Spear, Wind Sprite's Spear+, Nightbringer Wolf's Handgun, Nightbringer Wolf's Handgun+

Enhancing Equipment

• Select the equipment you wish to enhance. Each equipment has 3 ability slots to enhance.
  • If you select equipment currently attached to a unit, it will be unequipped automatically from all parties.
  • All types of weapon will be available to enhance, but some of them will have a boosted unique ability available only for the duration of current event.
  • Equipment that can be crafted in the Craft > Enhance Equip. menu can be enhanced at any time regardless of their level. Their enhancements will still be retained after crafting. Equipment that can be crafted in the Craft > Equipment menu must be the base equipment without any enhancements to be crafted into the new equipment.
• Select the dungeon, and venture into each floor upon choosing your companion and party.
  • Each entry will consume 1 orb. You can hold up to 10 orbs at a time, with 1 orb given per hour. Ranking up or using Lapis refresh for 100 will refill them to full. You can use Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore to restore 1 orb each.
  • There are a total of 10 floors. Each floor will be increasing in difficulty, but also higher chance of rare or strong abilities.
  • When you first enter this event, your regular party sets will be copied as a new, completely separate sets of party. You can equip different equipment and unit to this party set without changing other parties.
• Each time you clear a floor, you will obtain event points and an ability.
  • You may choose 1 from 3 different abilities chosen at random.
  • Abilities that are already enhanced to your current equipment will not show up again.
  • If those 3 slots are already filled, you may replace 1 of them, or skip.
  • A weapon can have both a unique ability and a rare ability.
• Clearing all the floors available will render the dungeon completed.
  • You can also choose to leave on any floor and keep all of the abilities you've obtained.
  • In the case of game over, you can either retire with 100 and keep all of the abilities you've obtained, or leave and lose them.
  • If the equipment selected had already been enhanced before, you will be given the option to choose between your newly obtained abilities, or with the set you had acquired previously.
• Troubleshooting
  • To hold onto newly gained abilities prior to the event ending and maintenance beginning, remember to complete or retire from the dungeon, otherwise any gained abilities will be lost. Selected equipment that has not received its floor 1 ability will not gain any abilities.
  • If the event ends before floor 10 has been completed, the equipment will keep the old abilities and not the gained abilities from the previous floors (i.e. you cannot choose between the new abilities and old abilities).
  • Reset the game if equipment appears to be missing after maintenance is completed.

Party Composition

• Much like the Arena and 10-man trials this mode uses its own party and equipment composition.
• Enemies (e.g. Olivier, Petraryukos) can inflict status ailments. The use of abilities such as Clear Veil, Status Reset, etc. is advised.
• A new friend unit is chosen for every floor but otherwise your party will behave as though all floors are one continuous set of battles (e.g. LB, MP, HP, esper gauge, status ailments all carry over).
  • You can use the early floors to build esper gauge and LBs. You can also save mana by using just the friend units' abilities to clear them.

Bonus Unit

Bonus: Increases the chance of unique abilities appearing. Up to 100% increased parameter to all stats, stackable with everything else.

Unit Bonus
Mystical Ice Lasswell	Hallowed Aegis Charlotte	Four Winds Physalis	War Hero Raegen	Untamed Wolf Edel
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%
Infernal Fire Rain	Dark Spirit Sol	Draconian Princess Fina	Supreme Deva Akstar	Y'shtola, the Sorceress
+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%	+100%
Y'shtola	Minfilia	Yda	Papalymo	Thancred
+100%	+50%	+50%	+50%	+30%

Abilities

Generic Abilities
HP	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
MP	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
ATK	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
DEF	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
MAG	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
SPR	1%	3%	5%	7%	10%	12%	15%
Auto-Regen	Lv. 1 (200 HP, 1x)		Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 4 (1800 HP, 1x)
Auto-Refresh	Lv. 1 (3%)	Lv. 2 (5%)
DEF Auto-Boost	Lv. 1 (10%)	Lv. 2 (20%)	Lv. 3 (30%)	Lv. 4 (40%)	Lv. 5 (50%)
SPR Auto-Boost	Lv. 1 (10%)	Lv. 2 (20%)	Lv. 3 (30%)	Lv. 4 (40%)	Lv. 5 (50%)
Rare Abilities
Dagger	High Tide+ - Increase LB gauge fill rate (150%)
Sword	Seal of Life and Power Lv. 4 - Increase HP/ATK (20%)
Great Sword	Seal of Life and Power Lv. 4 - Increase HP/ATK (20%)
Katana	Seal of Life and Power Lv. 4 - Increase HP/ATK (20%)
Staff	Seal of Skill and Soul Lv. 4 - Increase MP/SPR (20%)
Rod	Seal of Skill and Magic Lv. 4 - Increase MP/MAG (20%)
Bow	Seal of Power and Magic Lv. 7 - Increase ATK/MAG (35%)
Axe	ATK +40%
Hammer	Seal of Life and Arms Lv. 4 - Increase HP/DEF (20%)
Spear	Seal of Life and Power Lv. 4 - Increase HP/ATK (20%)
Instrument	Seal of Life and Soul Lv. 4 - Increase HP/SPR (20%)
Whip	MP +40%
Throwing	Seal of Life and Skill Lv. 4 - Increase HP/MP (20%)
Gun	ATK +40%
Mace	HP +40%
Fist	Seal of Life and Power Lv. 4 - Increase HP/ATK (20%)
Weapon Unique Abilities
Ul'dahn Falchion	Rampart - Increase HP (20%) and DEF (50%) Auto-buff DEF (50%)
Cobalt Winglet	Sentinel (FFXIV) - Increase resistance to all elements (30%)
Elements	Thin Air - Increase MP (20%) and SPR (40%) Recover MP (5%) per turn
Budding Maple Wand	Lucid Dreaming - Increase MP (20%) and SPR (50%) Recover MP (7%) per turn
Lunaris Rod	Enochian - Increase MP (20%) and MAG (40%) Recover MP (5%) per turn
Golden Eye	Sharpcast - Increase HP/MP (10%) and MAG (60%)
Guts Knuckle	Meditation - Increase ATK (60%) Auto-heal (60 HP, 1.2x) per turn
Inferno Saber Inferno Saber+ Inferno Saber++	Inferno Splitting Saber - Increase ATK (20%) Increase fire resistance (20%)
Dragon Wing Bow Dragon Wing Bow+	Piercing Dragon Wing Bow - Increase MAG (20%) Increase light resistance (20%)
Diabolos's Rod Diabolos's Rod+	Diabolos's Dark Rod - Increase MAG (20%) Increase dark resistance (20%)
Fierce Goddess's Katana Fierce Goddess's Katana+	Fierce Goddess's Supreme Katana - Increase ATK (20%) Increase lightning resistance (20%)
Ice Demon's Katana Ice Demon's Katana+ Ice Demon's Katana++	Ice Demon's Slashing Katana - Increase ATK (20%) Increase ice resistance (20%)
Knight Rider's Blade Knight Rider's Blade+	Knight Rider's War Blade - Increase ATK (20%) Increase earth resistance (20%)
Wind Sprite's Spear Wind Sprite's Spear+	Wind Sprite's Furious Spear - Increase MAG (20%) Increase water resistance (20%)
Nightbringer Wolf's Handgun Nightbringer Wolf's Handgun+	Nightbringer Wolf's Wild Handgun - Increase ATK (20%) Increase wind resistance (20%)

Floor	Rare Ability Chance
1	1.20%
2	1.20%
3	1.80%
4	1.80%
5	2.40%
6	3.018%
7	3.018%
8	6.024%
9	6.024%
10	9.06%

• The average chance to get a rare ability is around 3 full clears (30 orbs).
• Stats that are discarded or rewritten can reappear in later stages.
• See Mechanics for more information about buffs/boosts, such as Auto-Shell.

Event Points

Points	Rewards
80 pts	300,000
150 pts	Fire Megacryst (10)
380 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
500 pts	Thancred
710 pts	Ice Megacryst (10)
1,000 pts	Ul'dahn Falchion
1,260 pts	EX Summon Ticket
1,890 pts	300,000
2,000 pts	Minfilia
2,130 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
2,800 pts	Lightning Megacryst (10)
3,000 pts	Cobalt Winglet
3,300 pts	300,000
3,800 pts	Fairies' Writ (10)
4,000 pts	Papalymo
4,800 pts	300,000
5,000 pts	Golden Eye
5,280 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
5,800 pts	Water Megacryst (10)
6,000 pts	Yda
6,800 pts	Rainbow Bloom (10)
7,000 pts	Guts Knuckle
7,400 pts	300,000
7,800 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
8,000 pts	Y'shtola
9,100 pts	Earth Megacryst (10)
9,600 pts	300,000
10,000 pts	Budding Maple Wand
10,400 pts	Calamity Gem (10)
12,600 pts	300,000
13,320 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
15,000 pts	Wind Megacryst (10)
18,000 pts	300,000
19,600 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
22,000 pts	300,000
24,700 pts	Prismatic Horn (10)
27,000 pts	Light Megacryst (10)
27,960 pts	300,000
32,000 pts	Calamity Writ (10)
34,000 pts	300,000
37,000 pts	Divine Crystal (10)
40,000 pts	300,000
44,000 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
49,000 pts	Dark Megacryst (10)
50,440 pts	4★+ Guaranteed Ticket
54,500 pts	Fire Megacryst (10)
60,000 pts	Ice Megacryst (10)
65,500 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
70,000 pts	Lightning Megacryst (10)
72,000 pts	Water Megacryst (10)
73,680 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
76,500 pts	Earth Megacryst (10)
82,000 pts	Wind Megacryst (10)
87,500 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
95,000 pts	Light Megacryst (10)
102,500 pts	Dark Megacryst (10)
110,000 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
117,500 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
125,000 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
132,500 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
140,000 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
147,500 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
156,000 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
164,500 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
173,000 pts	1-star Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)
183,000 pts	5-star Trust Moogle (ALL 10%)
193,000 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
213,000 pts	300,000
233,000 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
258,000 pts	300,000
283,000 pts	Equipment Enhancement Orb Restore (5)
310,000 pts	300,000

• Every full clear nets ~17,700 points. The final reward cannot be earned even with diligent orb usage and all of the rewarded restore orbs; some refills via lapis or ranking up are needed.

Floor Composition

Floor	Monsters	Gil	Unit Exp	Rank Exp	Event Points (floor fixed)	Kill Bonus Points
1F	Dran Sorn Gahr	14,795	1,477	50	200	400
2F	Dran Sorn Gahr	14,795	1,477	50	300	400
3F	Aery Wyvern	14,795	1,477	50	500	600
4F	Aery Wyvern	14,795	1,477	50	500	600
5F	Aery Wyvern	14,795	1,477	50	600	600
6F	Aery Wyvern, Dran Sorn Gahr	29,570	2,955	155	700	1,200
7F	Aery Wyvern, Dran Sorn Gahr	29,570	2,955	155	700	1,200
8F	Nidhogg Broodling	14,795	1,478	155	800	1,900
9F	Nidhogg Broodling	14,795	1,478	155	900	1,900
10F	Nidhogg	14,860	1,478	300	1,000	2,700
TOTAL	-	177,565	17,729	1,170	6,200	11,500

Tips

• Bring sources of Dragon Killer.
• Floor 1-7 are not difficult. Floor 8-10 might require breaks and chaining.
• A mixed damage party is recommended. Enemies might be strong against physical or magic damage and might have elemental resistances.
• All enemies are fully breakable.
• Floor 10:
  • Nidhogg is neutral to all elements and immune to status ailments.