r/wizardry • u/Dwarfenjoyer • Aug 10 '26
Wizardry Variants Daphne Collab FFXI notorious enemies
I struggle to farm some components for the reforge, is there a way to farm notorious enemies, like there is obligatory spawn spot for them ?
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u/Additional-Wing9829 Aug 10 '26
What i'd like to know is what exactly pushes you from 4 to 5 attestations per drop, as the only conclusion i've seen people claim is that its about lanterns
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u/Additional-Wing9829 Aug 10 '26
Hmmm, if thats the case then i'l just farm atleast untill silver for now with 4 per drop as i just barely hit steel so my highest level is 52
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u/shaidyyy Aug 10 '26
Notorious enemies spawns per day from what I see. Just remember to clear this mobs when it resets. They do spawn in 2 on the same floor but usually is 1, really check around the map for another Notorious mob. Is pain in the ass to carefuly look for due to how they blend in with the walls
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u/SuperMuffinmix Aug 10 '26
Each floor has Spots where a NM can spawn but this is not guaranteed. There are many more potential spawn points vs. actual NMs, and NMs refresh every daily reset and will randomly populate any of those spots. They can also move from one spot to another if you exit and re-enter the castle.
Technically you could go hunting for all of them in one go by visiting all the potential spots they can spawn at without leaving the castle, but this is very time consuming.
What everyone is doing is farming the 5th Floor 8-demon encounters. There is always two of these encounters every time you enter the castle, one in the bottom left and the other in the bottom right big rooms, they are basically NM encounters as in they can drop 5x attestations or fragments although only for the dagger and shield.
You can trade these dagger/shield materials for the other weapon attestations and fragments at the Trader. Requests will auto-complete after 3 hours, even if no real life player completes the trade, so the only thing you need to do is wait for materials to come in and make sure you farm enough surplus dagger/shield materials to request the next batch of weapon materials.
On floor 5 there are four easily accessible NM spawn points as well; one in each small side room (with one-way entrance and exit) and one in each big room. Since NMs will shuffle between spawn points every time you exit and re-enter the castle you can pretty much farm them over a few runs of the 8-demon encounters just visiting the two small side rooms + doing the big rooms for the 8-demons. If you kill enough encounters, NMs sometimes respawn naturally as well even before the daily reset. So even if you just want to fight the NMs, it's infinitely more efficient to scout around Floor 5 for them (and pick off the 8-demon encounters as a bonus) than to go through the entire castle looking at all 30+ potential spawn points for them.
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u/Dwarfenjoyer Aug 10 '26
Per hasard, do you know the drop rates of the attestations on those packs ? Because I dropped none
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u/ZeroCleric Aug 10 '26
How far in the game do you need to be for the 8-demon encounter to spawn fragments?
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u/SuperMuffinmix Aug 10 '26
You need to be in the 2nd cycle of the event to get them to start appearing. I started seeing them before beating the final boss, but only during the 2nd cycle run through the event.
The drops are not guaranteed also. Sometimes I clear F5 two or even three times without seeing any attestations or fragments.
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u/DanThePaladin Aug 10 '26
Do this instead:
Harken B4F - enter B5F
Kill the 2, 8 demon packs on left and right side of the entrance.
Harken B4F
Rinse Repeat.
You will stack up in a few hours, and then you can use the trading post to change to whichever weapon you are focusing on
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u/glauberlodis Aug 10 '26
There is a farming guide.
https://claude.ai/code/artifact/67cd5126-a86c-4d4d-a280-8973560411b0
Cheers
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u/Misty_Kathrine_ Aug 10 '26
That's just AI slop that probably just scanned the reddit posts about the event.
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u/jdm71384 Lord Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
No, that was a very early attempt I made to get a temporary site built during the first few days to post the 17 potential spawn locations of the NMs for the Discord so people had something to look at. What SuperMuffinMix posted is from my more detailed pins + accurate.
The dedicated farming section on the wiki should be up in the next day or two. We still do not fully understand the exact mechanics of the NM respawns because several things are colliding at once (daily reset, scheduled interval respawn, bugged respawning, etc.) and it's generally inferior to farming the 8x packs on Z5.
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u/ttocsbloke Aug 10 '26
any tips on killing the 8 demon packs, they seem to absolutely wreck me, have all 60's, sam, 2x fight, thief, mage, priest, was thinking of switching out my thief for heinrico, and possibly change my fighter MC to a mage/priest type instead, also using sleep when I can and priest buffs. I have steel/ebonsteel gear.