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What's A "Bucket"? A Custom Content Glossary (rev. 3 by kayDee on 07-16-22, 12:19 pm)
Posted at 12-02-20, 08:50 pm Link | #1
This is a guide for newcomers to familiarize themselves with commonly mentioned custom content so half of global chat doesn't have to spend 20 minutes explaining what bucket is every time. Naturally, some of these names will be spoilers for the custom generations Apocrypha 1 and 2. Difficulties are listed based on my personal opinions and are not the rule, and many of the content here is often run in large groups where your build or party numbers can easily make up for the strength required to clear.
This glossary only covers common dungeons and instances.
Table of Contents:
Post 1: Pantay, Black Herb, Raid, Bucket
Post 2: Sky Palace, Trench, Deep Sea Int, Symphony
Post 3: Reoite, Library, Irinid Orb, Etc
Pantay (Panties)
A custom dungeon in the Marshes of Pantay. Often run repeatedly in groups for exploration exp. Considered one of the fastest ways to increase your exploration level in the early game.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: Big chunks of exploration exp varied upon type of pass used. For example, Carnivorous Plant Thorn and Seeds (often run due to the dungeon being very short and frequently having herb patches), will give 3200 exploration exp - 400 per plants killed in boss room. Always leave the plants in the boss room alive to get the maximum exp. Using Dragonfly body parts as a pass will generate a longer and tougher dungeon but yield a bit more exploration exp. Other notable valuable rewards include Cypress, Lizard, and Fearless enchants.
Side note: Using Tiny Dragonfly Token (a common reward in end chest) as a pass will result in a significantly more difficult dungeon and boss with a completely seperate reward list.
Viridian Caverns Dungeon (Black Herb, BH)
A dungeon unlocked at the very end of A1S2. Like Pantay, this dungeon is most commonly run for exploration exp. This dungeon is currently the fastest way to increase your exploration level.
Difficulty: Advanced.
Rewards: The dungeon provides an approximate 40k exploration exp! The rewards pool is too massive to list here, but the potential payout can be tremendous and includes many mid to late game items. Dungeon also drops passes for raid.
Viridian Caverns (Raid)
Raid is a massive instance with many chambers, unique mechanics, and four major bosses. In addition to the drop party, you can continue to summon more players from the outside to help with the raid, often leading to multiple parties in the same instance. If you are a newcomer to Raid, refer to this guide to avoid getting lost.
Difficulty: Advanced-Hard.
Rewards: This could have a spreadsheet dedicated by for itself. Raid provides many valuables from crafting materials to items and enchants that are often considered best in slot. Raid is the most reliable place to obtain Unholy Bouquets.
Unholy Bouquet (Bucket)
A 6 person party instance unlocked after clearing Black Herb. It is a single boss fight with various mechanics. You can only gain rewards for clearing Unholy Bouquet once per age (reset upon age up on Saturdays). You should be doing this every week as it is a quick and easy way to get very valuable loot.
Difficulty: Minimum requirements are Advanced. Recommend Hard carries.
Rewards: One Cultist's Candle per clear, which can be used to purchase items from Shamala's special store. Chests include valuables such as Thames Plate Armors, Weapon Durability Booster Kits, or anything from Shamala's store, including a Dragon Egg. The most important item in the shop is an Iridescent Herb, which are used in potion making to craft Enchant Failure Protection and Repair Failure Protection potions.
This glossary only covers common dungeons and instances.
Table of Contents:
Post 1: Pantay, Black Herb, Raid, Bucket
Post 2: Sky Palace, Trench, Deep Sea Int, Symphony
Post 3: Reoite, Library, Irinid Orb, Etc
Pantay (Panties)
A custom dungeon in the Marshes of Pantay. Often run repeatedly in groups for exploration exp. Considered one of the fastest ways to increase your exploration level in the early game.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: Big chunks of exploration exp varied upon type of pass used. For example, Carnivorous Plant Thorn and Seeds (often run due to the dungeon being very short and frequently having herb patches), will give 3200 exploration exp - 400 per plants killed in boss room. Always leave the plants in the boss room alive to get the maximum exp. Using Dragonfly body parts as a pass will generate a longer and tougher dungeon but yield a bit more exploration exp. Other notable valuable rewards include Cypress, Lizard, and Fearless enchants.
Side note: Using Tiny Dragonfly Token (a common reward in end chest) as a pass will result in a significantly more difficult dungeon and boss with a completely seperate reward list.
Viridian Caverns Dungeon (Black Herb, BH)
A dungeon unlocked at the very end of A1S2. Like Pantay, this dungeon is most commonly run for exploration exp. This dungeon is currently the fastest way to increase your exploration level.
Difficulty: Advanced.
Rewards: The dungeon provides an approximate 40k exploration exp! The rewards pool is too massive to list here, but the potential payout can be tremendous and includes many mid to late game items. Dungeon also drops passes for raid.
Viridian Caverns (Raid)
Raid is a massive instance with many chambers, unique mechanics, and four major bosses. In addition to the drop party, you can continue to summon more players from the outside to help with the raid, often leading to multiple parties in the same instance. If you are a newcomer to Raid, refer to this guide to avoid getting lost.
Difficulty: Advanced-Hard.
Rewards: This could have a spreadsheet dedicated by for itself. Raid provides many valuables from crafting materials to items and enchants that are often considered best in slot. Raid is the most reliable place to obtain Unholy Bouquets.
Unholy Bouquet (Bucket)
A 6 person party instance unlocked after clearing Black Herb. It is a single boss fight with various mechanics. You can only gain rewards for clearing Unholy Bouquet once per age (reset upon age up on Saturdays). You should be doing this every week as it is a quick and easy way to get very valuable loot.
Difficulty: Minimum requirements are Advanced. Recommend Hard carries.
Rewards: One Cultist's Candle per clear, which can be used to purchase items from Shamala's special store. Chests include valuables such as Thames Plate Armors, Weapon Durability Booster Kits, or anything from Shamala's store, including a Dragon Egg. The most important item in the shop is an Iridescent Herb, which are used in potion making to craft Enchant Failure Protection and Repair Failure Protection potions.
Sky Palace (SP)
Sky Palace is A2 content, first unlocked by doing the quest Arisen Anew. It is a series of procedurally generated RP instances consisting of 10 floors, going all the way up to 50 floors. The best way to consider this content is to think of it as a roguelike, where you play as a different character and train them up as you progress through the floors. It is almost identical to FFXIV's Palace of the Dead, if you're familiar with this content.
Difficulty: As you are playing RP characters, your character's combat abilities do not matter.
Rewards: At the end of each set of floors, you will cash out any Relic Orbs you've obtained as a sort of lootbox. These boxes often include regular commodities, fashion items, or valuables such as the Pygmy Dragon or powerful enchants. The rewards can get better as you reach higher floors, and secret hidden floors each have their own unique loot pool themed around the floor. Domirade actually has a nifty resource logging SP drops.
Dynafor Trench (Trench)
A long corridhor instance accessed at the end of a custom dungeon in Port Cobh, lead to Solea and vice versa. Defeating enemies in the trench may summon a boss, which are gauranteed to drop keys for the various chests in the trench. The ore deposits in the trench have a high gathering success rate and is more likely to give copper/silver/gold ores, making it a fantastic option for mining.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: The chests contain various items such as Dyes, Gems, or custom weapons like the Wave Zauber and Sea Swallow, but the prize most players are going for here is the Deep Sea Intermediate pass.
Deep Sea Intermediate
A short dungeon that is accessible by an entrance on the side in Dynafor Trench. Often run in large parties due to its massive rewards list.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: Like Black Herb, the rewards pool is too massive to list here. Some primary items of interest are Storm Arrows, Symphony Intermediate pass, or Coral Slates.
Symphony For a Fallen King (Symph, Simp)
A custom secret mission accessible with a pass by talking with Nele in Emain Macha. Loads a 8 player difficulty scaled version of the G12 final Nuadha fight with some added mechanics. Just any other secret missions, doing the hidden objectives, not dying, and not using potions contributes to a score that impacts your rewards.
Difficulty: There are Intermediate, Advanced, and Hard passes, but you'll want carries that sit above each respective difficulties.
Rewards: Demigod set, Cleric set, Puppet Accessories, Viscount enchanted accessory, valuable enchants such as Regardless, Surprising, etc.
Sky Palace is A2 content, first unlocked by doing the quest Arisen Anew. It is a series of procedurally generated RP instances consisting of 10 floors, going all the way up to 50 floors. The best way to consider this content is to think of it as a roguelike, where you play as a different character and train them up as you progress through the floors. It is almost identical to FFXIV's Palace of the Dead, if you're familiar with this content.
Difficulty: As you are playing RP characters, your character's combat abilities do not matter.
Rewards: At the end of each set of floors, you will cash out any Relic Orbs you've obtained as a sort of lootbox. These boxes often include regular commodities, fashion items, or valuables such as the Pygmy Dragon or powerful enchants. The rewards can get better as you reach higher floors, and secret hidden floors each have their own unique loot pool themed around the floor. Domirade actually has a nifty resource logging SP drops.
Dynafor Trench (Trench)
A long corridhor instance accessed at the end of a custom dungeon in Port Cobh, lead to Solea and vice versa. Defeating enemies in the trench may summon a boss, which are gauranteed to drop keys for the various chests in the trench. The ore deposits in the trench have a high gathering success rate and is more likely to give copper/silver/gold ores, making it a fantastic option for mining.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: The chests contain various items such as Dyes, Gems, or custom weapons like the Wave Zauber and Sea Swallow, but the prize most players are going for here is the Deep Sea Intermediate pass.
Deep Sea Intermediate
A short dungeon that is accessible by an entrance on the side in Dynafor Trench. Often run in large parties due to its massive rewards list.
Difficulty: Basic-Intermediate.
Rewards: Like Black Herb, the rewards pool is too massive to list here. Some primary items of interest are Storm Arrows, Symphony Intermediate pass, or Coral Slates.
Symphony For a Fallen King (Symph, Simp)
A custom secret mission accessible with a pass by talking with Nele in Emain Macha. Loads a 8 player difficulty scaled version of the G12 final Nuadha fight with some added mechanics. Just any other secret missions, doing the hidden objectives, not dying, and not using potions contributes to a score that impacts your rewards.
Difficulty: There are Intermediate, Advanced, and Hard passes, but you'll want carries that sit above each respective difficulties.
Rewards: Demigod set, Cleric set, Puppet Accessories, Viscount enchanted accessory, valuable enchants such as Regardless, Surprising, etc.
Reoite and Arcane Library
Custom dungeon in Silla Beach and Rupes Desert. Both dungeons are part of the Rune Craft content, and will give rewards that contribute to your Rune Craft skill.
Difficulty: Reoite is for Intermediate to Advanced depending on pass used, and Library is for Advanced to Elite depending on pass used.
Rewards: Raw drops include Silver Sword, Spear of Ice, Khopesh, etc. Most loot found in these dungeons are for Rune Crafting.
Irinid Orb
The custom dungeon Cenae Meadows Ruins can accept restored relic orbs as passes. Irinid Orb is the most popular to run and you'll often see calls for recruitment. It is the only location other than Peaca currently that has white herb patches.
Difficulty: Advanced.
Rewards: Animal Crackers. I hope you like Elephants shaped ones. And something about a Bohemian set.
Some more obscure dungeons, shadow missions, and content that were not part of NA live are cut from this list to because its not frequently spoken about in global. If you want to learn more, refer to Nekojima content, Kuragayama village content, River Caverns dungeon for Siren parnter content, or Devenish Forest content (no guide currently exists for this one). As they become more relevant, I'll expand this post for them.
Custom dungeon in Silla Beach and Rupes Desert. Both dungeons are part of the Rune Craft content, and will give rewards that contribute to your Rune Craft skill.
Difficulty: Reoite is for Intermediate to Advanced depending on pass used, and Library is for Advanced to Elite depending on pass used.
Rewards: Raw drops include Silver Sword, Spear of Ice, Khopesh, etc. Most loot found in these dungeons are for Rune Crafting.
Irinid Orb
The custom dungeon Cenae Meadows Ruins can accept restored relic orbs as passes. Irinid Orb is the most popular to run and you'll often see calls for recruitment. It is the only location other than Peaca currently that has white herb patches.
Difficulty: Advanced.
Rewards: Animal Crackers. I hope you like Elephants shaped ones. And something about a Bohemian set.
Some more obscure dungeons, shadow missions, and content that were not part of NA live are cut from this list to because its not frequently spoken about in global. If you want to learn more, refer to Nekojima content, Kuragayama village content, River Caverns dungeon for Siren parnter content, or Devenish Forest content (no guide currently exists for this one). As they become more relevant, I'll expand this post for them.
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