Phantom Weapons Obscurum/Quest

Umbrae <<< IL 760

Phantom Weapons Obscurum Item Level 775 Patch 7.41 Starting Location Lydirceil - Phantom Village (X:6.6, Y:7.1) Notable NPCs Gerolt - Phantom Village (X:6.7, Y:7.1) Ermina - Phantom Village (X:6.9, Y:7.3) Dodokkuli - Phantom Village (X:6.7, Y:7.1) Quests Timeworn Techniques In Pursuit of Perfection A Phantom Reborn Reward

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Prerequisites

Before beginning to create a Phantom Weapon Obscurum, players must:

• complete a Phantom Weapon Umbrae from the quest Wrought by Hands Phantasmal
• reach level 100 for your chosen job as a Disciple of War or Disciple of Magic.

Timeworn Techniques

Starting NPC:

Lydirceil

Starting Location:

Phantom Village (X:6.6, Y:7.1)

1. Speak with Gerolt.
2. Speak with the expedition archaeologist.
3. Speak with Gerolt.
4. Deliver the requested items to Gerolt.
5. Obtain a sack of Umbral Clay.
6. Obtain a lump of Aspected Aether Agglomerate.
7. Obtain a lump of Aspected Aetheroconductor.
8. Obtain a lump of Aspected Aetherocatalyst.
9. Speak with Gerolt.

• Umbral Clay is purchased from Goplu in Tuliyollal (13.1, 12.7) for  500,000 gil.

The Aspected Aether items are level 100 crafts, with the recipes requiring Master Recipe Tomes XII.

• All recipes require Levinchrome Aethersand, which can be bought with Orange Gatherers' Scrips or Cosmocredits, or obtained through Aetherial Reduction.
• The remaining materials come from timed nodes that require Tomes of Regional Folklore. Botanist needs its Yok Tural and Alexandria books, while Miner needs its Xak Tural and Alexandria books. These items require at least 5,090 Perception to gather them.
• Aspected Aether Agglomerate is made by Carpenter, Leatherworker, or Weaver.
• Aspected Aetheroconductor is made by Blacksmith, Armorer, or Goldsmith.
• Aspected Aetherocatalyst is made by Alchemist or Culinarian.
• Even though there is no  High-quality version of these crafts, they must be completed with a nearly full quality bar (at least 14200/14204 quality), or else the craft will fail.
• 5620 Craftsmanship and 5080 Control are required in order to attempt to craft the items.
• Teamcraft's 7.4 budget meld set (5,635 Craftsmanshop, 4,969 Control, 583 CP) plus high-quality All i Pebre and high-quality Cunning Craftsman's Tisane can macro these crafts with about 98% success using a macro from Raphael.
• The high-tier meldset (even with just a Stellar main-hand tool and one CP meld on the offhand tool) can macro it with 100% success using just high-quality Rroneek Steak and no Tisane.

Alternatively, since all of the required items are tradable, they can be bought off the Market Board.

In Pursuit of Perfection

Starting NPC:

Lydirceil

Starting Location:

Phantom Village (X:6.6, Y:7.1)

1. Deliver Crystal Paste to Gerolt.
2. Deliver Crystal Paste to Gerolt once more.
3. Deliver Crystal Paste to Gerolt for a third time.
4. Deliver Crystal Paste to Gerolt for a fourth time.

This step requires collecting a total of 1,200 Crystal Paste, split into four stages: 100 paste, then 200, 300, and finally 600. You can collect Crystal Paste without needing to equip the relic, queue as a level 100 job, or use the same job that accepted the quest.

The Crystal Paste is an stackable item that is stored in your regular inventory, so you can simply obtain 1,200 units then turn them in sequentially. You do not need to do the turn-ins as soon as the thresholds are met, because there is no danger of "overcapping."

Crystal Paste can be collected from various duties:

Duty	Crystal Paste
Duty Roulette: Expert (every run, not limited to daily)	15
Duty Roulette: Level Cap Dungeons (every run, not limited to daily)	15
Duty Roulette: Leveling (every run, not limited to daily)	20
Critical Engagements in The Occult Crescent: South Horn (Forked Tower excluded)	5
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 1-10)	10
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 11-20)	11
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 21-30)	12
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 31-40)	13
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 41-50)	15
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 51-60)	17
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 61-70)	21
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 71-80)	26
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 81-90)	26
Pilgrim's Traverse (Stones 91-100)	26
The Final Verse (Quantum) (Currently unknown how/if difficulty level affects paste reward)	?
AAC Heavyweight M1 AAC Heavyweight M2 AAC Heavyweight M3 AAC Heavyweight M4	8
AAC Heavyweight M1 (Savage)	10
AAC Heavyweight M2 (Savage)	11
AAC Heavyweight M3 (Savage)	11
AAC Heavyweight M4 (Savage)	18
Hell on Rails (Extreme)	9
FATEs in Dawntrail zones	3

Based on these data, efficient options are:

• Duty Roulette: Leveling with a high-DPS premade party
• Stones 71+ of Pilgrim's Traverse with an efficient premade party.

Notably, Occult Crescent is one of the least efficient methods for this step.

A Phantom Reborn

Starting NPC:

Lydirceil

Starting Location:

Phantom Village (X:6.6, Y:7.2)

Reward:

Phantom Weapon Obscurum, depending on job

1. Purchase 3 Waning Arcanite from Ermina in Phantom Village (X:6.9, Y:7.3). Each costs  500 Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics, or 1,500 tomestones total.
2. With the [Corresponding Phantom Weapon Umbrae] in your inventory or Armoury Chest, deliver the chunks of waning arcanite to Dodokkuli.

This quest consists only of buying the Waning Arcanite and trading those for the desired Phantom Weapon Obscurum. Like the prior tomestone exchange for arcanite, players also need to exchange the corresponding Phantom Weapon Umbrae. All other weapons can thereafter be acquired in the same way, without needing to accept a repeatable quest.

Achievements

Phantom Weapons Obscurum are associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
Clare Obscurum: Sword & Shield Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom sword obscurum and phantom shield obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Bardiche Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom bardiche obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Guillotine Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom guillotine obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Gunblade Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom gunblade obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Fork Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom fork obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Jamadhars Obscurum	10	Obtain a pair of phantom jamadhars obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Khukuri Obscurum	10	Obtain a pair of phantom khukuri obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Twinfangs Obscurum	10	Obtain a pair of phantom twinfangs obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Blade Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom blade obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: War Scythe Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom war scythe obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Longbow Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom longbow obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Musketoon Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom musketoon obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Tathlums Obscurum	10	Obtain a pair of phantom tathlums obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Longpole Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom longpole obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Index Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom index obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Hanger Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom hanger obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Round Brush Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom round brush obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Cane Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom cane obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Codex Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom codex obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Star Pendant Obscurum	10	Obtain a phantom star pendant obscurum.	-	7.41
Clare Obscurum: Wings Obscurum	10	Obtain an array of phantom wings obscurum.	-	7.41

Trivia

• "Clare Obscurum" in the achievement names of the relic weapoons is likely in reference to a variant spelling of the french term "clair-obscur", another word for chiaroscuro .
  • Chiaroscuro is "pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color".
  • This is in line with the naming of the previous two steps featuring light and shadow, Penumbrae (a space of partial illumination between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light) and Umbrae (a conical shadow excluding all light from a given source).
• Given the timing of the patch's release in January of 2026 the names of the achievements could possibly reference the 2025 role-playing game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as it had recently won several awards.