Ancient Sphere
SpecialWeapon · SPWeaponCaptureBall4★Thrown to capture Pals. The high point of ancient civilization's craft, carrying the power of the World Tree, and no Sphere goes beyond it.
It is a component in one recipe, so keep a couple spare rather than a stockpile.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack. At 122,760 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Ancient Sphere Crafting Recipe
Paldium Fragment
Paloxite Ingot
Mythical Wood
Paloxite×12
Soralite×6
World Tree Holy Water×6Crafting it takes 39 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 30× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Ancient Sphere
Ancient Sphere turns up in supply drops — best odds are the Sunreach Isle drops at 50%, 5–10 per crate.
It also shows up as world loot — treasure chests in the Sunreach Isle, fishing the treasure spots in the Sunreach Isle and junk hauls while fishing in the World Tree, and 3 more pools besides, usually 1–3 at a time. Higher-grade chests carry the better rolls, so the ones guarded by a camp are usually worth the detour.
Sending a team on the World Tree Subterrenean City Ruins, Eternal Pyre's Forbidden Market and PIDF Illegal Factory expeditions brings some back without you leaving base, and 4 more expeditions can return it too.
Chests inside Sunreach Skies can hold it as well.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Supply drop | Sunreach Isle drops | 50% chance, 5–10 at a time |
| Expedition | World Tree Subterrenean City Ruins | Hard · 60 min · 100% chance · 5–10 at a time |
| Expedition | Eternal Pyre's Forbidden Market | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Expedition | PIDF Illegal Factory | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Expedition | PAL Genetic Research Laboratory | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Expedition | Moonflower's Secret Hideout | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Expedition | Ancient Feybreak Ruins | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| World loot | Treasure chests in the Sunreach Isle | Grade 3 · 75.8% chance · 1 at a time · also in Sunreach Skies |
| World loot | Fishing the treasure spots in the World Tree | Grade 3 · 74.7% chance · 1 at a time |
| World loot | Treasure chests in the World Tree | Grade 1, 3 · 73.7% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| World loot | Fishing the treasure spots in the Sunreach Isle | Grade 3 · 72.8% chance · 1 at a time |
| World loot | Junk hauls while fishing in the World Tree | Grade 1 · 20.0% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the World Tree | Grade 1 · 0.4% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| Dungeon chest | Sunreach Skies | Chest loot |
Using Ancient Sphere Well
The recipe is a Technology tree unlock at level 74 for 5 Technology points — ordinary points, not Ancient Technology points, so nothing has to be farmed from bosses to buy it. Nothing in the sphere line sits above it, and it is seven levels past Sol Sphere at 67, which makes 74 the level where sphere upgrades stop mattering.
Mythical Wood is the part of the recipe that stalls people, because it is not chopped from trees — recycling Ancient Relics returns it every time, with the better relic grades handing back several units per relic. Bank relics on the way through the World Tree rather than spending them elsewhere if you plan to craft spheres in bulk.
Each one takes 1,000,000 work to assemble — roughly 1.7x a Sol Sphere and over three times an Exotic Sphere. Even on an Advanced Sphere Assembly Line with a full Handiwork crew that is a long queue for a single sphere, so treat the bench as a trickle and the VeryHard expeditions as the real supply: they return 10-20 per run at a guaranteed rate.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other items at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
