Everything You Need To Know About AF3

I thought I'd try and collect all the known information about the new AF3 gear into a single post, for easy reference.

So far, only the hat, legs, and feet are available. All three are upgradeable through a new Magian moogle in Ru'Lude Gardens. There are two tiers, +1 and +2: both upgrades require gathering items of various types. (See below for locations.)

(Edit: As of the December update, I've added body, hands, and accessories here.)

Base gear:

(1) The heads can be purchased for cruor in the new Abyssea areas (Misareaux, Attohwa, and Vunkerl) from the Cruor Prospector -- see below for the specific listings. They run for only a few thousand cruor, so getting the base hat is a cakewalk.

(2) The legs are purchased for Resistance Credits from the Bastion Prefect in each of the new areas. If you don't know, a short word about Bastion: it's like Campaign, except the defense structures (Martellos) are powered up by performing Resistance Operations, and you get exp (and credits) when the mobs die instead of at the end of the event. The Ops also give cruor and credits. You can get to the Bastion outpost by warping to the #00 conflux, which is automatically activated for you when you turn on the conflux near the Abyssea entrance. You get Ops from the Resistance Sapper, and Pennant (which lets you participate in battles) from the Bastion Prefect. The Bastion Prefect sells you the pants for 1,000 credits.

Please note that Bastion is very difficult to actually participate in if the Martellos are not buffed up: the battles will be short and you will get close to no credits, because you will not have time to kill anything. It is therefore strongly recommended that you do the Ops. Bring your friends. You can each complete one Op every Vanadiel day. The more people do this, the easier it will be to get EXP (and credits, and pants) from Bastion.

(3) The feet drop randomly from Gold chests in the new Abyssea areas.

There is a consistent pattern for which jobs' AF3 can be found in which zones. This applies to all three pieces, including the Feet, so don't waste your time hunting Gold chests in the wrong area:

Vunkerl: BLU, COR, DRG, NIN, PUP, SAM, SCH, SMN, DNC
Misareaux: BRD, BST, DRK, PLD, RNG
Attohwa: BLM, MNK, RDM, THF, WAR, WHM


Upgrade items:

IMPORTANT: Trade the upgrade items to the Delivery Crate by the Magian Moogle -- NOT to the Moogle himself. You may begin depositing items in the Crate before you've collected them all. When you've deposited all of them, then trade the equipment itself to the Moogle. This will complete the trial.

(1) The +1 upgrade items needed for the Magian trials are Seals corresponding to the AF3 gear (e.g. Goetia Seal: Head for BLM hat) and drop from various NMs in the new Abyssea areas. Wiki has the specific listings. The drops go by region:

---- Vunkerl NMs drop the Feet seals.
---- Misareaux NMs drop the Leg seals.
---- Attohwa NMs drop the Head seals.

The seals are also randomly rewarded for completing certain repeatable (!) Abyssea quests. They're given according to the above pattern: Vunkerl quests give Feet seals, Misareaux quests give Legs, etc. It's not a 100% reward rate and there is a range of jobs associated with each quest (they go in groups of 4 which are consistent across regions), so be prepared to spam them.

(Edit: As of the December update, all Resistence Ops now have the potential to randomly reward seals.)

Here's a complete list of quests and the seals they reward. Some of them require Abyssea fame.

Vunkerl (Feet):

The Boxwatcher's Behest (Deraquien, Base camp): WAR, SMN, SCH, DNC
Aqua Puraga (High Bear, Conflux #00): BLM, NIN, COR, DRG
Bad Communication (Ferdechiond, Conflux #00): THF, BST, WHM, SAM
His Bridge, His Beloved (Cheupirudaux, Western Camp): MNK, PLD, BLU, BRD
Scattered Shells, Scattered Mind (Aladoverre, Western Camp): PUP, RNG, DRK, RDM

Misaraeux (Legs):

Cookbook of Hope Restoring (Jonette, Conflux #03): WHM, THF, BST, SAM
Unidentified Research Object (Yurim, Base camp): BLU, PLD, BRD, MNK
Smoke over the Coast (Hungry Wolf, Conflux #03): PUP, RNG, RDM, DRK
Soil and Green (Sieglinde, Base camp): WAR, SMN, SCH, DNC
Wanted: Medical Supplies (Yasuji, Conflux #03): BLM, DRG, NIN, COR

Attohwa (Head):

Looking for Lookouts (Colti, Field Camp): WAR, SCH, DNC, SMN
An Acrididaen Anodyne (Yoran-Oran, Base camp): RDM, DRK, PUP, RNG
Flown the Coop (Brutus, Field Camp): MNK, BRD, PLD, BLU
Threadbare Tributlations (Ponono, Field Camp): WHM, BST, SAM, THF
An Offer You Can't Refuse (Garnev): BLM, DRG, NIN, COR

You need 8 of these seals for each piece of equipment upgraded.

(2) The +2 upgrade items are various Coins, Stones, Cards and Jewels that drop from "the big" NMs in the new Abyssea areas (the ones you see in the CS on entering the zone for the first time.) These NMs require Key Items to pop, which are found in Gold chests from the corresponding region.

You need 6 of them in all, but the specific items vary from piece to piece. Wiki has the listings under Magian Trials.

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Here are the AF3s themselves, complete with stats for each upgrade. DDDDRRRRRROOOOOOOOOLLLL. :D~~