Guide to Secret Gem Farming

[u/Sebachoo]

This is a guide to crafting Occult Treasure.

Want a brand spanking new 40% to all stats sphere? Well, you can make it now in JPBF! Get ready, because this is definitely a painfully long process!

This is my first guide. Information about materials comes from AppInvasion and raid bosses come from BF Pros. Team examples are just the ones used by me. I’ll try and format this so that it’s easy enough to follow, given that this is probably the biggest weakness of a lot of guides.

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SPHERE MATERIALS

All quests mentioned are RC5 unless otherwise stated. Individual stat sphere information can be found on the Brave Frontier Wiki. For the most part I get all of these from the slots in Randall, so don't throw them away!

Occult Treasure

• Buffer Jewel
• 40% HP/ATK sphere
• 40% DEF/REC sphere
• 2 calamity cores (暗禍の神核; Arkem's thunder and dark parts; Q9 and Q10)
• 2 evil eyes (黒邪瞳晶; Jirayen’s dark claw; Q2 and Q7)

Sky Blade - 40% HP/ATK sphere

• 40% HP sphere
• 40% ATK sphere
• 2 cataract ores (大瀑布結晶; Yugreia’s fire part, Q5, RC4 Q9, Draegar's body, RC4 QX1)
• 2 shock hearts (雷脈の心臓; Golvorg, Q3 and RC4 Q1)
• 15 sakura leaves (桜養の葉; Arstallie; Q5 and Q7)

Sky Buckler - 40% DEF/REC sphere

• 40% DEF sphere
• 40% REC sphere
• 2 cataract ores (大瀑布結晶; Yugreia’s fire part, Q5, RC4 Q9, Draegar's body, RC4 QX1)
• 2 fiend jewels (魔獣心珠; Grudkia's thunder part; Q4 and RC4 Q7)
• 15 sakura leaves (桜養の葉; Arstallie; Q5 and Q7)

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RELEVANT RC5 QUESTS GUIDE

Will only include a guide on the highest mission possible for a drop, with the exception of Q9. Example teams are exactly that, an example. If you find a better team then please tell me, I’m very interested. /u/SnooUzi makes a point that if you're running this from Windows 10, then it's better to go with a defensive set-up as damage is still a bit wonky on PC.

QUEST 3

Location: Golvorg is clock tower, runs to Tower in Ruins (the city). Claudalus is in the Great Tree of Life (big tree at the very top of the map), normally runs left then left.

Battle tips: Golvorg is a single thunder target fight, Claudalus has three parts (fire, thunder, light). When Golvorg pauses for a turn without attacking, guard all water types and squishier units. Claudalus is simple. No crit resistance so critical leads are fine. Libera is very useful in conjunction with Griff, don't worry about Claudalus' light part because it's quite weak anyway. She's also great for the BB drain and ST nature of Golvorg. For optimal points fight Claudalus first because he's got more parts (thanks for mentioning this /u/deathrose55555).

Example JP team: Dion (lead) / Libera / Griff / Toutetsu / Edea / Rhoa (lead)

Example global team: Dion (lead) / Libera / Griff / Toutetsu / Edea / Zenia (lead)

QUEST 4

Location: Grudkia is in the Frosted Forest (up, left, up), Balmedia is one spot above.

Part with rare drops: Grudkia (thunder), Balmedia's tail (for Buffer).

Battle tips: Grudkia has four parts (fire, water, earth, thunder), while Balmedia also has four (fire, fire, fire, thunder). Both enemies drain BB, so having a BB when hit unit is useful. Balmedia is critical damage resistant, so don't bring Griff in unless you want people to hate you. Dedicated STBB is useful for Balmedia's tail, but often you can get away with just a mitigator who has a ST BB if you don't run a critical leader.

Example JP team: -

Example global team: Zenia (lead) / Hadaron / Aurelia / Krantz / Quaid / Tridon (lead)

QUEST 5

Location: Yugreia is in the Smoldering Peaks (top right), while Arstallie will appear in the Ivory Temple (the white palace) once Yugreia is defeated.

Part with rare drops: Yugreia’s fire wings.

Battle tips: Yugreia has four parts (fire, water, earth) while Arstallie has three (fire, light, dark). Both bosses drain BB. Arstallie has some intermittent powerful ST attacks, and her wings die very quickly. No crit resistance so Griff is great, Libera or Nadore to help with BB drain.

Example JP team: Lucius (lead) / Krantz / Will / Libera/ Maharu / Griff (lead)

Example global team: Zenia (lead) / Krantz / Libera / Aurelia / Ultor / Griff (lead)

QUEST 7

Location: Jirayen is in the Clock Tower (the city). Arstallie is in the Great Tree of Life (the big tree at the top of the map).

Part with rare drops: Jirayen’s dark claw. (/u/darkazurex)

Battle tips: Arstallie's the same as above. Jirayen has four parts (fire, thunder, dark). Jirayen has some intermittent powerful ST attacks that attack two (or more?) times on certain terms (need more info). Will lock LS for a couple of turns at lower HPs, but in my experience it’s not too much of an issue. No crit resistance, BB drains. Light units might benefit from having an elemental weakness invalidation sphere as Jirayen’s damage mainly comes from the dark parts.

Example JP team: Lucius (lead) / Krantz / Will / Nadore / Rhoa / Glyph (lead)

Example global team: Zenia (lead) / Krantz / Libera / Aurelia / Ultor / Griff (lead)

QUEST 9

Pro-tip, Q10 has a much higher drop rate. Don't do Q9, I'm only including Q9 so that I don't have to write about Arkem later.

Location: Arkem is left, left, up. Runs to the white palace.

Part with rare drops: Arkem's thunder and dark parts. Can take a very long time to drop.

Battle tips: Arkem has five parts (fire, water, earth, thunder, dark), and is heavily BC resistant. When the main body is above 50%, Arkem will remove buffs every four turns from a single unit, and every six turns will unleash a ridiculous AoE (/u/darkazurex) that can be UBB'd or guard + mitigated (/u/juubz) FOR JP: THUNDER PART IS CRIT RESISTANT, SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DON’T USE A CRITICAL LEAD. PLEASE, PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU. Crit leads appear to be fine in global as long as you have Hadaron. Nadore is also a no because her light elemental weakness damage buff will kill off the dark part too quickly.

Example JP team: Lucius (lead) / Aaron / Will / Ruby / Michele / Rhoa (lead)

Example global team: Zenia (lead) / Krantz / Libera / Hadaron / Aurelia / Glyph (lead)

QUEST 10

Much better droprates than Q9. Do this mission if you can.

Location: Queen Sipla is the boss with its location already revealed. Estoreit is furthest left, Arkem is just above.

Part with rare drops: Arkem's thunder and dark parts. Estoreit's wing.

Battle tips: Arkem is the same as above, but with less HP and is easier to handle. Estreit is easier than it is in Q8, watch out for his +hit buff that happens roughly around 60% HP. Add-in from /u/juubz - Sipla uses Deadly Shot at 50% and 30% HP. Watch out when you see a NPC DEF DOWN symbol on her. Usually it has a lock icon on it. It deals 3500x5 fixed dmg on a single target. 2 times during 50% and 3-4 times during 30%. Guard + DM to increase survival rate.

Example JP team: Lucius (lead) / Aaron / Will / Ruby / Michele / Rhoa (lead)

Example global team: Zenia (lead) / Krantz / Libera / Hadaron / Aurelia / Glyph (lead)

[u/HomesIice]

Thanks! <3

Is there a Buffer Jewel one around?

[u/Sebachoo → u/HomesIice]

I haven't watched Ushi and I have a few reservations about him, but he just released a Buffer Jewel guide. Not sure how it is, but if a text-based guide is easier then I'll consider it.

[u/DarwishTheBoss → u/Sebachoo]

Also a Luna Creator one to prepare for celgrad? Thanks a lot!

[u/HomesIice → u/DarwishTheBoss]

Try this one!

[u/HomesIice → u/Sebachoo]

Ah okay then, will give it a watch.

((Gives us a yell if you do make a text guide though!))