Exotic Sphere
SpecialWeapon · SPWeaponCaptureBall3★Thrown to capture Pals. Its performance runs far enough ahead to land Pals that sit outside the usual standards.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.
Exotic Sphere Crafting Recipe
Paldium Fragment
Plasteel×1
Hardwood×10
Hexolite×1
Ore×5
Crude Oil×2
Chromite×1
Hexolite Quartz×1Crafting it takes 27 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Exotic Sphere
Exotic Sphere shows up as world loot — field drops in the Feybreak, field drops in the Sunreach Isle and sea base enemy camp loot in the Snowfields, and 2 more pools besides, usually 1–3 at a time.
Sending a team on the Dark Cave of Feybreak expedition brings some back without you leaving base.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Expedition | Dark Cave of Feybreak | Hard · 60 min · 100% chance · 4–8 at a time |
| World loot | Sea base enemy camp loot in the Feybreak | Grade 1, 3 · 46.9% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| World loot | Sea base enemy camp loot in the Snowfields | Grade 3 · 43.1% chance · 1 at a time |
| World loot | Sea base enemy camp loot in the Sakurajima | Grade 3 · 39.7% chance · 1 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the Sunreach Isle | Grade 1 · 1.9% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the Feybreak | Grade 1 · 0.5% chance · 1–3 at a time |
Using Exotic Sphere Well
The recipe is a Technology tree unlock: level 58, 5 Technology points. That is seven levels past Ultimate Sphere at 51 and nine short of Sol Sphere at 67, so it is the strongest sphere you can research through most of the late game.
The loot routes open long before the recipe does — sea base camps in the Feybreak, Snowfields and Sakurajima drop these at roughly 40-47% a stash, with no level requirement attached. If you are still short of 58, raiding those camps is the only way to hold Exotic Spheres, and it is worth banking the stack rather than spending it on Pals a Ultimate Sphere would have caught.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other items at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
