Yggdrasil: Materials

“	Great news, all Warriors of Light! A new zone called Yggdrasil: Materials has been discovered <vr> It appears that this zone speeds up your augmentation progress, as well as obtaining skillseed bonuses...?!	„
	~ Announcement text

Yggdrasil: Materials is a new ability enhancement region introduced on December 17, 2018 as a place for newer players to easily upgrade Ability Cards in 3 ways:

• Collect augmentation materials for Card Augmentation.
• Unlock extra skills more swiftly than other regions.
• Gather skillseeds more swiftly than other regions.

This region replaces the now removed exploration regions, notably Albion Plateau Redux, as the place to farm augment materials and skillseeds.

Region details

• Select "Yggdrasil: Materials" from the world map -- branched off of the red "Specials" node.
• You must complete Chapter 1: Blank Slate before this region becomes available.

There are 29 total areas, including 20 Augmentation Materials areas, 6 Extra Skills areas, 2 Cactuar areas, and the opening "Yggdrasil Materials Zone" area. There are no treasure chests. All areas can be teleported to, with the exception of the opening area.

In one corner of the screen you will find the Shortcuts button, which gives you a simple two-click transport to Pandemonium, Bahamut Lagoon, or the Ring of Braves.

Extra skill areas

In the center of the region is a set of six areas: one in each element. These areas have a high cost (60 stamina!) but they will net 20x the usual amount of skillseeds and have 6x the normal chance to unlock extra skills. These items stack with similar bonuses from cards, jobs and weapons with Skillseed Up and Improved Extra Skill Unlock auto-abilities, and Mobius Day, so you can easily take this up to 12x Extra Skill Unlock and 40x Skillseeds... or higher!

The enemies that appear here are very weak. In order to maximize skillseeds gained:

• Equip the main deck with a Skillseed Up enabled job, weapon and cards;
• Set the Battle Difficulty to Hard in the ETC → Config menu;
• Aim for a battle score of 10 million points.

Area	Cost	Battles
Fire Training Area	60	6
Wind Training Area	60	6
Dark Training Area	60	6
Water Training Area	60	6
Earth Training Area	60	6
Light Training Area	60	6

Cactuar areas

As of October 2019, two new areas show up. These have a LONG series of battles against cactuars guaranteed to be their selected element, with a slightly higher chance for Gold Gigantuars and Crystal Gigantuars to show up in each skirmish.

Area	Cost	Battles
Fire/water Cactuars	30	30
Wind/earth Cactuars	30	30

Not all enemies in here are Cactuars, but none of the fiends you meet will pose much challenge. Going into here with a character decked out in high Crystal Seeker boosts looks to be a great way to farm Crystals.

Augmentation materials areas

This zone offers areas that drop specific Material Cards. These areas each feature 3 battles exclusively against the fiends that drop the specific selected material. (e.g. the Fiery Gems area only has Red Dragons as foes.) These fiends drop materials ONLY, so no ability cards, but they use their normal drop rates, so you'll gather 0-3 of that material per fight.

In addition, each area in the Materials Zone gives twice the normal skillseeds, and the rated difficulty stays as RED up through Card Lv. 250, so even Materials farming can be useful in building your skillseed stockpiles. The Wildblooms area in particular is one of the best areas in the game for farming skillseeds, Magicite, and Crystals.

Enemies here are middling in difficulty -- they are Sub-bosses and Bosses, after all -- but a player who has completed the main storyline through Act 1 Chapter 3 should have little trouble plowing through them.

Area	Upgrade Material	Type	Element
Smelly Spines	Smelly Spines★3	Material	Earth
Emet Stones	Emet Stone★2	Material	Earth
Burning Stingers	Burning Stinger★2	Material	Earth
Unliving Souls	Unliving Soul★3	Material	Earth
Molten Cores	Molten Core★3	Material	Fire
Fiery Gems	Fiery Gem★2	Material	Fire
Shadowy Wings	Shadowy Wing★3	Material	Fire
Serrated Scythes	Serrated Scythe★2	Material	Water
Adaman Shells	Adaman Shell★2	Material	Water
Beast Horns	Beast Horn★3	Material	Water
Blighted Feelers	Blighted Feelers★2	Material	Wind
Cursed Feathers	Cursed Feather★3	Material	Wind
Verdant Claws	Verdant Claw★2	Material	Wind
Wildblooms	Wildbloom★3	Material	Wind
Light Fragments	Light Fragment★2	Material	Light
Light Shards	Light Shard★2	Material	Light
Light Gems	Light Gem★3	Material	Light
Dark Fragments	Dark Fragment★2	Material	Dark
Dark Shards	Dark Shard★2	Material	Dark
Dark Gems	Dark Gem★3	Material	Dark