The intermittent Moogle Tomestone event approaches once more with significant changes to the process. This means we’ve got a whole new world of farming Moogle Tomestones in Final Fantasy XIV when the event comes around — what’s the most optimal method?
Best Duties for Irregular Tomestones of Genesis to farm Moogle Tomestones
We don’t have the same set list of duties ahead of time as before anymore — instead, the duty list is far expanded. While we can expect there to be dungeons and raids dropping tomestones, we’ll now also get tomestones from the following duties:
- GATEs, the minigames in the Gold Saucer scheduled for every 20 minutes.
- Ocean Fishing routes, the two-hour scheduled expeditions that are great for leveling your Fisher.
Furthermore, once per week, you’ll now be rewarded if you complete two of these duties:
- FATEs. Given the image depicts a Shadowbringers era FATE, perhaps all the FATEs for Bicolor Gemstone farming (All Shadowbringer/Endwalker areas) will yield Mogtomes.
- Treasure Map Hunting, where you retrieve treasure maps to gather and assemble a party to hunt down the X to retrieve treasure.
- Hunt Marks, posted on a board inside a player’s Grand Company, outside the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard, and outside the tavern in Kugane.
- What appears to be a Triple Triad open tournament, scheduled every two hours at the Card Square in the Gold Saucer.
- Even more fishing! Perhaps catching a certain type of Big Fish?
There’s also a new Ultimog challenge, only completable once per event. The name implies clearing an ultimate, but it’s likely not actually an ultimate. Perhaps a savage or extreme duty?
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With all this in mind, the new optimal duties can be estimated as something like this:
- Completing the Ultimog Challenge.
- Completing the weekly challenge — Hunt Marks and Open Tournaments would be easiest.
- Focusing heavily on GATEs along with Ocean Fishing. If you find a dungeon or trial to cheese with Blue Mage, weave it between the 20-minute gap with GATEs for optimal farming.
Now we have an inkling of how to farm Moogle Tomestones in Final Fantasy XIV this time around, but what about the rewards?
Best Rewards for Irregular Tomestones of Genesis
Rewards that are most worth the effort:
- The Mameshiba Neckerchief, as it’s an event exclusive.
- Yukinko Snowflake minion, as this only drops from Eureka Hydatos lockboxes and max rank Grand Company loot containers. Save yourself the RNG effort. They also sell for a pretty penny on the Marketboard.
- Ultima Horns. These are a Special FATE reward from a FATE that takes over a day to respawn. Likely faster to just farm the tomes.
- Twilight Over Thanalan Orchestrion Roll. Normally a random drop from the Aquapolis, so once again saving a lot of RNG.
- The Dhalmel Whistle. It saves you a lot of Kupo of Fortune RNG.
Rewards that are doable normally, but are a nice shortcut with tomes:
- Indomitable Orchestrion Roll and the Bomb Palanquin Horn save you from grinding Kojin and Kobald to Honored and Respected ranks.
- Decisions (Omega) Orchestrion Roll saves you farming Deltascape 4.0.
- Titania Barding lets you skip either farming her duty or buying an expensive material off the Marketboard.
- The Antelope Doe Horn and Modern Aesthetics — Modern Legend both save you a lot of Skybuilders’ Scrips grinding.
- The Little Leannan minion saves you from running The Grand Cosmos until it drops or paying a fair sum off the Marketboard.
- The Griffin Hatchling saves you the effort of getting 400 Centurio Seals.
- The Titania Triple Triad Card saves you farming her trial.
- The Deepeye Card saves you having to do the entire Convictory questline, if you don’t care for side quests.
- The Stormblood Gilgamesh card saves you from having to do the Hildibrand questline for Stormblood.
Rewards that are barely worth the effort:
- The Late Allagan glamour pieces. If you regularly do PvP, you’re already drowning in Wolf Marks. You can easily just grind Crystalline Conflict ranks and buy these without wasting tomes.
- Boreas Whistle. Farming Shiva Extreme takes like a minute at max level, especially if you have multiple people. You can easily get this in twenty minutes or less normally.
- I would also put the Rose Lanner here for the same reason. It won’t take much effort to farm.
- The furniture items. You can just craft them normally and save the tomes.
- MGP Platinum Card. You get more MGP just from doing your weekly Fashion Report.
- Archaeornis Triple Triad Card. All you need to do to get this one is do a single short quest, then challenge Elaisse in the Jeweled Crozier until she drops it.
Overall, this round is certainly not the last one, but there are still a few things of note here. What do you want to get most? If you’re having trouble with particular trials, how about discovering how to unlock the Gilded Araya Trial in Final Fantasy XIV?
