The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden
This article is about the level 100 challenge-mode trial. For the story-mode Main Scenario trial, see The Interphos.
The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden
- Level
- 100
- Item Level
- 710
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Party size
- Full Party
8 man • 2
2 
4 
- Unsyncing
- Not Allowed
- Time limit
- 60 minutes
- Phoenix Down
- Not Available
- Duty Finder
- High-end Trials (Dawntrail)
- Tomestones
20 
10 - Req. quest
How the West Was Sung- Location
- Interphos
- Region
- Unlost World
- Stone, Sky, Sea
- Available
- Patch
- 7.1
The Echo- On wipe: +5% (max +25%)
“With harp cradled in his arms, the wandering minstrel sings a sorrowful song of a recreated queen. Helpless to defy the purpose she was given, this simulacrum sought to preserve the memories of her subjects by taking the lives of innocents in other reflections. Though she met her end by your hands, had she been further along her ill-fated path by the time of your confrontation, might she have proven unstoppable and gone on to wreak untold death and devastation? Such questions play on your mind as the minstrel's verse bears you away to a world of the imagination, where you once again come face-to-face with the dread entity known as Queen Eternal...
— In-game description
The Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden is a level 100 trial introduced in patch 7.1 with Dawntrail.
Guide
Please note that players may fall off the arena to their deaths.
Loot
- Each player will receive 2
Totem Eternal per kill. Collect 10 totems to exchange for a weapon or 99 for a 
Wings of Eternity at Uah'shepya in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5). - 20 Allagan Tomestones of Heliometry
- 10 Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics
Queen Eternal Card (Drops at a fixed rate.)
Treasure Coffer
Achievements
This duty is associated with the following achievement:
| Name | Points | Task | Reward | Patch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Long Lived the Queen
|
10 | Defeat Queen Eternal in the Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden. | - | 7.1 |
Dialogue
Queen Eternal: Greetings and good-bye. Queen Eternal: Are you alive? Queen Eternal: Are you happy? Queen Eternal: Let us rise above death! Queen Eternal: We require aether. Queen Eternal: not be afraid. Death is not the end. Queen Eternal: I will show you the worlds beyond. Queen Eternal: Deploying drones. Queen Eternal: Are you still alive? Activating reserve power. Queen Eternal: Are you still alive? Disengaging safeties. Queen Eternal: Target area delineated. Commencing erasure. Queen Eternal: System overload. Aborting process. Queen Eternal: Are you still alive? Recommencing erasure. Queen Eternal: System overload. An error has occurred. Queen Eternal: System override order confirmed. Queen Eternal: 5/4/3/2/1 second(s) to Absolute Authority... Queen Eternal: GreE-Gree-GreETinGs...a-a-a-Nd-goOd-byE... Queen Eternal: BeEe aT eAsE, everyone. Your aeTHer will SOon...pleNishED-shED-shED-shED... Queen Eternal: IF tHIngS shoULd...turN...wORSe...MiGHt...alD... Queen Eternal: I-I will SHow you...tH-tH-tHe woRLds beyoND... Queen Eternal: Are yOu-are yoU-are YOu...are you hapPY? Queen Eternal: Do...DO-do-do not be a-Be aFraID... Queen Eternal: Let..let uS...let us...let uS...above deaTH...
Music
| Section | Theme |
|---|---|
| Main |  Paved in Solitude
|
Images
Historical
Until patch 7.15, the Queen Eternal Card would not drop as a reward from this trial.[1]
References
- ↑ Patch 7.15 Notes: "The following issues have been addressed. An issue with the trial the Minstrel's Ballad: Sphene's Burden wherein a Triple Triad card would not drop as a reward."
