Arcanaut's Gear & Occult Accessories

Gearing in Occult Crescent

Each Field Operation features a new armor set that has its own unique set of effects specific to that Field Op’s zone. In Occult Crescent, we have ilvl 745 Arcanaut’s Gear and Occult Accessories which feature main stat bonuses and a stat called Special Attribute.

Special Attribute increases Phantom Action damage by ~1% per point.

Each piece of occult gear also receives +40/80/120 main stat. Main stat increases your overall damage by a much more significant margin than other stats in the game. Always prioritize wearing Arcanaut’s or Occult Accessories over trying to reach a certain stat tier or specific GCD.

Deep Occult Rings

The English translation on the Deep Rings is misleading, as it requires 5 unique accessories to be worn to receive its effects.

This is explained in more detail in the Best in Slot section.

Materia Melding and You

Don’t! Materia affixed to gear higher than ilvl 700 is disabled in Occult Crescent.

In FFXIV, if a piece of gear’s item level is above the duty’s item level sync,all materia on the gear will be disabled. This is consistent with all other duties in the game.

This means, while occult gear can be melded, it will not recieve any benefits from the melded materia while in Occult Crescent. The only gear that can be melded and still have those melds function is the Neo Kingdom gearset.

Mini TL;DR

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Where to Obtain Occult Gear

Arcanaut’s Armor

You can purchase all 7 sets of Arcanaut’s Gear from the Expedition Antiquarian at the Base Camp for 4,000 enlightenment silver pieces per armor piece. There is no specific purchase order as each piece costs the same amount of silver and provides an equal amount of bonus stats.

Occult Accessories

These are very rarely obtained from completing Critical Encounters, opening bronze/silver treasure coffers, and opening gold chests from either a Persistent Pot or Happy Bunnies (Fortune Carrots).

Accessory Sources and Drop Rates

• Earrings, Necklaces, and Bracelets can only be obtained from Critical Encounters and treasure coffers around the South Horn. Specific CEs drop specific (non-ring) gear slots, either ‘of Blood’ or ‘of Magic’ at random. A map showcasing which CE drops which accessory is shown below:
  • CEs have a ~0.1% drop rate (our best estimated value)
  • Coffers have a ~0.06% drop rate.

South Horn Critical Encounter Accessory Map

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• Rings can only be obtained from gold persistent pot chests.
  • ~10% drop rate
• Deep Rings can only be obtained by opening a chest revealed by a Happy Bunny through the use of Fortune Carrots.
  • ~20% drop rate

Drop Rate Sources

All drop rate information is sourced from Infi’s Gacha Website

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Upgrading Occult Gear

For now, you can purchase upgrade materials from Expedition Antiquarian for silver, gold, and sanguinite (from Forked Tower: Blood).

Each upgrade increases your main stat by +40 and grants one point of Special Attribute. Below is a list of required materials you must present, along with the armor piece itself, to the Expedition Armorer in Base Camp in order to upgrade the armor piece. Currently, Occult Accessories cannot be upgraded.

To upgrade a piece from base to +1 you need…

Item	Amount	Cost
Base Arcanut’s	1	4,000 silver
Aetherspun Silver	3	3,600 silver
Aetherial Fixative	3	4,800 gold

To upgrade a piece from +1 to +2 you need…

Item	Amount	Cost
Arcanaut’s +1	1	See above table
Aetherspun Gold	3	Random Coffer Drop
X-Fixative	6	60 Sanguinite

In total each set will cost…

Item/Currency	Amount
Silver	38,000
Gold	24,000
Aetherspun Gold	15
Sanguinite	300

All 7 sets will in total cost…

Item/Currency	Amount
Silver	266,000
Gold	168,000
Aetherspun Gold	105
Sanguinite	2100

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Occult Crescent Best-in-Slot

The Best in Slot for all jobs/roles is wearing a full set of Arcanaut’s +2 gear and all 5 unique Occult Accessories (Earring, Necklace, Bracelet, Ring, and Deep Ring).

The main stat and Special Attribute bonuses will provide the highest damage gain for minimal effort. The bonus main stat will far, far outweigh any specific substat tiering or GCD speeds possible as every 40 main stat will increase your general rotation’s damage by ~1%. Main stat bonuses will not affect Phantom Action damage, however, the Special Attribute bonus will increase Phantom Action damage by ~1% per point.

Armor and Accessories

When starting out, you should wear as many pieces of Arcanaut’s Gear and Occult Accessories as you can reasonably obtain. By the end, you should work towards obtaining Arcanaut’s +2 Gear and all 5 unique Occult Accessories.

If you do not have a piece of Occult gear for a specific gear slot, fill it with the highest item level piece with desirable substats.

Wearing Two Non-Deep Rings

The English translation on the Deep Rings is misleading. It requires 5 unique accessories to be worn to receive its effects.

This means if you do not have all 5 unique accessories, you could temporarily wear two non-deep rings. Wearing two non-deep rings does grant their bonus effects for a total of +80 main stat and +2 Special Attribute.

However, both rings will be spiritbond to you; this means when you do get all 5 accessories, the extra non-deep ring will essentially be useless and untradeable.

Weapons

Phantom Weapons are generally the safest pick! They provide capped desirable substats at ilvl 700. There are some cases when another weapon may be better, but these differences are so minimal that it’s not worth worrying over. A good rule of thumb is to use the highest ilvl weapon with desirable stats.

Weapon Preference by Job

All of these were simmed on xivgear(dot)app with full Occult Gear and Caramel Popcorn. All of these are <0.1% differences in DPS.

The only big call outs are Scholar and Sage as their Neo Kingdom and early relics suck.

Neo Kingdom (w/ melds)

• Paladin - DHIT/DHIT (w/ any Relic Shield)
• Ninja - DHIT/DET
• Monk - DHIT/DET
• Dancer - CRIT/CRIT
  • Pen/Umbrae is equal
• Black Mage - SPS/SPS
• Summoner - SPS/SPS
  • This for strcitly for reaching a specific GCD so you don’t miss demis GCDs.

Relics

• Dark Knight - Any step
  • Neo Kingdom is equal with CRIT/CRIT
• Warrior - Obscurum
• Gunbreaker - Obscurum
• White Mage - Any step
  • Neo Kingdom is equal with CRIT/CRIT
• Sage - Obscurum
  • Obscurum is far better than any other option
• Scholar - Obscurum
  • Obscurum is far better than any other option
• Astrologian - Any step
• Dragoon - Obscurum
• Samurai - Obscurum
• Reaper - Obscurum
• Viper - Any step
• Machinist - Pen/Umbrae
• Bard - Pen/Umbrae
• Red Mage - Pen/Umbrae
• Pictomancer - Pen/Umbrae

Special Attribute Weapons?

There are currently no weapons with the Special Attribute bonus.

Foods and Tinctures

Both work in Occult Crescent! The best options are the current raid tier’s consumables for your job/role (e.g. 7.4 is Caramel Popcorn and Grade 4 Gemdraught).

Note: Tinctures/Gemdraughts do not increase Phantom Action damage.

What about Neo Kingdom?

Since occult gear now occupies every slot except for weapons and due to how powerful the gear’s bonuses are, Neo Kingdom gear has been made irrelevant. If you’re still working on getting your occult gear, neo kingdom can help you gain marginally small fractions (<1%) of damage gain, but its easier to just bring in the highest ilvl pieces with your role’s preferred stats.

Though with how quickly you would be replacing this gear, it’s strongly advised to not invest in Neo Kingdom.

Tuning your GCD Speed

If you want to prioritize a comfortable GCD speed, that is your choice. Feel free to use xivgear(dot)app to make your own set(s) for comfort.