Cosmic Tools Relic Guide and Best Missions for FFXIV

Cosmic Tools are the Crafting and Gathering relic tools available for Dawntrail. These tools are upgraded using content called Cosmic Exploration where these tools are upgraded over a range of stages to become some of the best tools in the game.

For players looking for information about the core mechanics of Cosmic Exploration such as how to unlock, rewards, or further information about game mechanics. Please read our guide!

Cosmic Tools are simply given to you as soon as you enter Sinus Ardorum while unlocking the Cosmic Exploration. Your first tool is given to you from the questline however all other tools can be picked up for free by speaking to Researchingway in any of the planets.

Cosmic Tools have special effects on them. These are:

• All: Completing a stellar mission from start to finish with this tool equipped grants a bonus to earned rewards. Region-specific Credit Bonuses: +35%
• Crafting: Increases to quality are 1.75 times higher than normal when material condition is Good.
• Miner/Botanist: Increases the chance to trigger Collector's Intuition by 20% when gathering collectables.
• Fishing: Has a chance to reduce the GP cost of Powerful Hookset and Precision Hookset by 50%. (Chance is around 10-15%)

These effects are the exact same as last expansion's relics, with the added Cosmic Exploration-based bonus.

The Cosmic Tools currently go up to i765. Cosmic Tools have no meld slots but do already have a meld worth of CP added onto them.

Cosmic Tools are more than viable at the current endgame and a direct upgrade if your using either Scrip Gear or a cheaper meldset that only has a CP/GP meld on it while being essentially a sidegrade for high-tier meldsets. It is not worth any meld changes at the moment however because the tool is incomplete.

The Cosmic Tools are also always best in situations revolving their special effects. This means:

• Crafting: These tools are best when Expert Crafting
• Miner/Botanist: These tools are best at any collectables.
• Fishing: These tools are best in any situation that uses Patience II such as Ocean Fishing

For further information, check out our melding guides!

3.

Gallery of All Cosmic Tools for Crafting and Gathering

Featured below is a gallery of the first and third stages of the Cosmic Tools which offer unique styles for this relic.

Cosmic Tool Hypertools

Carpenter Blacksmith Armorer Goldsmith Leatherworker Weaver Alchemist Culinarian Miner Botanist Fisher

Carpenter Blacksmith Armorer Goldsmith Leatherworker Weaver Alchemist Culinarian Miner Botanist Fisher

3.1.

Cosmic Saw

3.2.

Cosmic Cross-pein Hammer

3.3.

Cosmic Raising Hammer

3.4.

Cosmic Mallet

3.5.

Cosmic Round Knife

3.6.

Cosmic Needle

3.7.

Cosmic Alembic

3.8.

Cosmic Frypan

3.9.

Cosmic Pickaxe

3.10.

Cosmic Hatchet

3.11.

Cosmic Fishing Rod

3.12.

Cosmic Saw

3.13.

Cosmic Cross-pein Hammer

3.14.

Cosmic Raising Hammer

3.15.

Cosmic Mallet

3.16.

Cosmic Round Knife

3.17.

Cosmic Needle

3.18.

Cosmic Alembic

3.19.

Cosmic Frypan

3.20.

Cosmic Pickaxe

3.21.

Cosmic Hatchet

3.22.

Cosmic Fishing Rod

Upgrading your Cosmic Tools is simple, simply obtain Data which comes in multiple (numbered) types. Data comes from Stellar Missions and completing them will grant you progress towards your current tool!

Every Mission inside the Cosmic Exploration has set data that it can grant you. But when you gain either a Gold or a Silver rating on the mission, you will gain a 5x or 4x multiplier to the respective rewards. Critical Missions do not give you any multipliers however.

A few tools exist to help you know what missions are efficient as well as knowing further information about the mission types. I would suggest checking out:

• Sinus Ardorum, a Cosmic Research Helper
• Crafting Spreadsheet with data, macros and relative efficiency
• Gathering Spreadsheet for Breakpoints and Score efficiency
• Fishing Spreadsheet with Hole Data

Each upgrade of your Cosmic Tool requires you to gain a lot of data of varying types. Starting with rank I data and then progressing into II, III and so on. As you progress multiple data types are also required.

The great thing is though, your current data (Analysis) does not reset when you upgrade! Furthermore, the more relics you complete, the faster your data acquisition becomes.

As you complete more relics, you begin to gain a buff that makes the next relics much easier to obtain. This starts at +50% and ends at 150%. This is indicated by new text appearing in your Cosmic Research menu.

This means that you want to always finish a Tool Analysis stage for one class before moving onto another so that you can gain the Increased Data Acquisition buff. There are multiple "stages" of Tool Analysis with Novice (Red), Intermediate (Yellow) and Advanced (Blue). You cannot 'lose' the buff if you upgrade a tool to further stages.

If you are a player who is either new to the game or simply new to Crafting and Gathering. This relic starts at level 10 alongside you and can be upgraded further as you continue leveling.

If you are leveling you do not need to worry about being optimal with regards to progressing the relic. But i would recommend going to the most recent planet, Oizys for your missions. Simply select missions that give you the data types you currently need and you are set to go!

Listed below is each stage of the Cosmic Tool and the Data requirements for that stage. With the addition of Oizys, the grind has become much simpler. Several data types are now available in lower classes and their overall values have been increased, alongside less missions meaning less annoyance with picking a specific mission.

For details on the Stellar Missions available and all their rewards. The consolegameswiki provides a detailed list of Stellar Missions for example Oizys Miner.

Listed below is some general Mission Recommendations for Class A Cosmic Missions that cover all data types needed. That being said, the best missions for you specifically will change depending on what data you require. You should also not farm the more difficult/slower missions as they generally take longer resulting in less data overall, so no EX+'s unless your confident you can reliably clear them quickly.

With changes to missions with the addition of Oizys, mission farming can be summarised as:

• Novice: Class D/C Missions
• Intermediate: Class C/B Missions
• Advanced: Class B/A Missions

Crafting:

We recommend checking out the Oizys tabs of this Crafting Spreadsheet which provides macros for each individual mission alongside scoring. Crafting classes only have a few Class A options for data V however so you will want to also do some Class B missions instead.

Miner/Botanist:

For gathering this Gathering Spreadsheet provides information on each mission. There's one strangely powerful mission that gives 145 data II/III "Mineral Gravitational Stabilizers" for MIN and "Fibrous Gravitational Stabilizers" for BTN. Because these missions give roughly 2x as many rewards as other missions when factoring in the increased mission length, they should be prioritised.

This leaves you with needing a Source of data I/IV/V however there is no mission that gives all 3. Much like crafting, you may want to complete more Class B missions for data V. But the most important thing with gathering is picking missions close to you so that you remove any downtime from traveling around the map.

Fishing:

Anglers can refer to this Fishing Spreadsheet to view information on both the data as well as hole/mission-specific advice. As always with fishing, different fish have different bite times, rating, hooksets and mechanical complexities.

Much like MIN/BTN, you want to reduce downtime of traveling between holes by trying to stick to one location.