Festival of Gold: Orb Dungeon
It’s finally here!
Time to strengthen your party in this event with EXP, orbs, and Gil that are in abundance!
Event Rules
The event will be split into 4 phases and each phase lasts for three days.
(thanks to Robotstove for mining the translated images!)
Skip to: PHASE 1 / PHASE 2 / PHASE 3 / PHASE 4
The Orb Dungeon will feature two rare spawns: Cactuar & Gigantuar.
They can appear in any difficulty, but the chances of them spawning are higher as difficulty increases.
Cactuars guarantee either a regular orb or Greater orb, while Gigantuars guarantee either a Greater orb or a Major Orb.
Hmmm… That sweet sparkly Major orb 🙂
There are no bosses in this event, the only real boss is RNG.
Make sure you plan ahead what orbs you need and maximize your returns!
Stamina refreshes are recommended! Go hard or go home!
NOTE
While the ever elusive Cactuar and Gigantuar drop valuable high-rarity orbs… Do note that:
In Normal dungeons, regular enemies drop Minor (1★) orbs.
In Hard dungeons, regular enemies drop Lesser (2★) orbs.
In Heroic dungeons, regular enemies drop Regular (3★) orbs.
VIDEO GUIDE
Take a look at this informative video by lindmejo!
(Thanks to Robotstove for giving it a mention in chatango)
Take note of the amount of Gil and EXP you can get during this event!
Phase 1
– Easy –
Total Stamina required: 9 (3/3/3)
| Mastery Reward | Lesser Black Orb x15, Lesser Lightning Orb x15 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 1500 |
| First Time Completion | Lesser Dark Orb x15, Mythril x1 |
– Normal –
Total Stamina required: 15 (5/5/5)
| Mastery Reward | Black Orb x10, Lightning Orb x10 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 5000 |
| First Time Completion | Dark Orb x10, Mythril x1 |
– Hard –
Total Stamina required: 30 (10/10/10)
| Mastery Reward | Greater Black Orb x3, Greater Lightning Orb x3 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 12000 |
| First Time Completion | Greater Dark Orb x3, Mythril x1 |
– Heroic –
Total Stamina required: 45 (15/15/15)
| Mastery Reward | Major Black Orb x1, Major Lightning Orb x1 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 25000 |
| First Time Completion | Major Dark Orb x1, Mythril x1 |
Enemy Appearances
 Vespid Soldier |
Weak |
| Fire / Lightning | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| Wind | |
 Gremlin |
Weak |
| Fire / Lightning / Wind | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| Ice / Water | |
| Null | |
| – | |
 Vespid |
Weak |
| – | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| – | |
 Ghast |
Weak |
| Fire / Ice / Lightning / Wind / Water | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| – | |
 Wight |
Weak |
| – | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| – | |
 Cactuar |
Weak |
| Ice / Holy | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| – | |
 Gigantuar |
Weak |
| Ice / Holy | |
| Absorb | |
| – | |
| Resist | |
| – | |
| Null | |
| – |
Phase 2
– Easy –
Total Stamina required: 9 (3/3/3)
| Mastery Reward | Lesser White Orb x15, Lesser Earth Orb x15 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 1500 |
| First Time Completion | Lesser Holy Orb x15, Mythril x1 |
– Normal –
Total Stamina required: 15 (5/5/5)
| Mastery Reward | White Orb x10, Earth Orb x10 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 5000 |
| First Time Completion | Holy Orb x10, Mythril x1 |
– Hard –
Total Stamina required: 30 (10/10/10)
| Mastery Reward | Greater White Orb x3, Greater Earth Orb x3 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 12000 |
| First Time Completion | Greater Holy Orb x3, Mythril x1 |
– Heroic –
Total Stamina required: 45 (15/15/15)
| Mastery Reward | Major White Orb x1, Major Earth Orb x1 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 25000 |
| First Time Completion | Major Holy Orb x1, Mythril x1 |
Enemy Appearances
Phase 3
– Easy –
Total Stamina required: 9 (3/3/3)
| Mastery Reward | Lesser Summon Orb x15, Lesser Ice Orb x15 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 1500 |
| First Time Completion | Lesser Fire Orb x15, Mythril x1 |
– Normal –
Total Stamina required: 15 (5/5/5)
| Mastery Reward | Summon Orb x10, Ice Orb x10 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 5000 |
| First Time Completion | Fire Orb x10, Mythril x1 |
– Hard –
Total Stamina required: 30 (10/10/10)
| Mastery Reward | Greater Summon Orb x3, Greater Ice Orb x3 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 12000 |
| First Time Completion | Greater Fire Orb x3, Mythril x1 |
– Heroic –
Total Stamina required: 45 (15/15/15)
| Mastery Reward | Major Summon Orb x1, Major Ice Orb x1 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 25000 |
| First Time Completion | Major Fire Orb x1, Mythril x1 |
Enemy Appearances
Phase 4
– Easy –
Total Stamina required: 9 (3/3/3)
| Mastery Reward | Lesser Power Orb x15, Lesser Wind Orb x15 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 1500 |
| First Time Completion | Lesser Non-Elemental Orb x15, Mythril x1 |
– Normal –
Total Stamina required: 15 (5/5/5)
| Mastery Reward | Power Orb x10, Wind Orb x10 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 5000 |
| First Time Completion | Non-Elemental Orb x10, Mythril x1 |
– Hard –
Total Stamina required: 30 (10/10/10)
| Mastery Reward | Greater Power Orb x3, Greater Wind Orb x3 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 12000 |
| First Time Completion | Greater Non-Elemental Orb x3, Mythril x1 |
– Heroic –
Total Stamina required: 45 (15/15/15)
| Mastery Reward | Major Power Orb x1, Major Wind Orb x1 |
| Completion Reward | Gil × 25000 |
| First Time Completion | Major Non-Elemental Orb x1, Mythril x1 |
Enemy Appearances
written by /u/fattybomchacha aka flip
*Holy Awe sound effect*
I’m going to spam the s#!t out of the summon and non elemental orbs. Valefor here I come. \(*0*)/
Do the Cactuars/Gigantuars appear by themselves or with other enemies?
By themselves
Does anyone know at what rate Cactuars and Gigantuars appeared in JPN? And what % of those yielded Greater and Major orbs, respectively?
I had been really looking forward to this event but now I’m thinking this event will be a let down. Maybe it’s because I just had a bad day grinding for GPO and GBOs… xD
Is it best to play the dungeons on easy after mastering each difficulty, to minimize stamina usage? Do the cactaurs spawn at the same rates in all difficulties?
The spawn rates of the cactuars are lowest in Easy. So as much as possible you should go for the highest difficulty for a higher cactuar spawn rate.
thank you
Will there be a relic draw banner for this event, and if so could you list what comes from it?
No there will not be a relic draw banner for this event I don’t think.
anyone knows the hitpoints from the Gigantuar ???
5000 HP
Gigantuar is so rare…. I used over 5gemme to regain endurance and i got 128end. And i didnt see 1 yet…. ? ill keep spamming all events
woohoo 1st major power orb
5% chance to encounter gigantuar
20% chance to encounter cactuar
not to mention % of the better orb drops…
good luck!
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Not including rewards for finishing first time and mastery, so far for 37 runs(45 stamina per run, 3 heroics) i have seen 1 gigantuar and 17 cactuar dropping 1 major and 8 greater orbs. From what i can tell the drop of which level of orb is around 50%. Considering cost of relic draw is down to 25 once per phase i’m only spending mythril above and beyond what’s needed for the draw. So far on 3 draws i’ve gotten 8 5*, 7 4* and 15 3* pieces of equipment.
Now looking at value for those 75 mythril i could have done 150 runs and gotten approximately 4 major and 32 greater orbs. Enough for 1 4* ability with a little left over.
This is only my opinion but having 5* equipment with possible synergy has much more of an effect on my ability to runs level 120 areas in the events.
Either your data is inaccurate, or I am misunderstanding it, or your luck with orbs is TERRIBLE, and your draws with Relics is very good.
My approximation of orbs for me is about 3 Greater Orbs per Mythril spent refreshing (3 Full runs per), and 1 Major Orb per 4 Mythril. That said, you’ll still average over 5 Normal Orbs per 15 stamina spent, and we will eventually have an Orb Conversion feature which will help equate less than 30 stamina into one Greater Orb, and one Major Orb into 10 Greaters if you desire those; that said, for my personal averages I am looking at about 40 Greater Orbs per 4 Mythrils spent refreshing.
In other words, 75 Mythrils for me is potentially over 700 Greater Orbs.
This is only orbs as well. There is an abundance of EXP to be gained, and gil as well, but I am unsure how much of that gil is going to be spent on the cost of converting orbs.
i think you might want to look at your own numbers. to get 700 greater orbs for 75 mythril means you are getting 10 greater orbs per mythril spent or 1.5 per 15 stamina run. i ended up spending 20 mythril last day and got 2 major and 11 greater orbs. NOT 200! 1 mythril to me equal 6 15 stamina runs. IF and only if you got every battle against a cactuar you would see 18 cactuar for that 1 mythril. You would need to get 50% of those cactuar dropping greater orbs to get 9 greater orbs for that 1 mythril. As cactuar actually only appears 10% or so of the time there is no way you are going to get 10 greater orbs dropped per mythril spent.
There absolutely no way you are getting 10 greater orbs per mythril.