Features

The NM Hunt

The core of Scythe's endgame. 506 custom Notorious Monsters spread across 150 zones throughout Vana'diel. Every NM is built from scratch:

Unique names — drawn from real-world mythology and folklore across dozens of cultures. Chelona, Nuckelavee, Girtablilu, Pandaemonium, Lamashtu. No generic names, no duplicates.
Distinct models — every NM has a unique visual appearance. No two NMs in the entire hunt share the same model.
Level 160 with 10x stat multipliers — these are not regular mobs. They hit hard, they have real HP pools, and they use actual mob skill lists with proper AI behavior. Some have AV-style 2-hour cycling and phase transitions.
Scyld currency — every kill awards Scyld. Spend it at the Hunts Master in the hub zone to unlock elite hunts and purchase rewards.
Per-character kill tracking — every unique NM you kill is recorded. Milestones at every 50 kills. Kill all 506 to unlock the endgame.
9-11 minute respawn — no waiting hours. If someone gets there first, come back in 10 minutes.
150 zones — NMs are distributed across the entire world, from starter zones to Abyssea to Seekers of Adoulin areas. Every zone has 3 NMs.

The hunt system uses dynamic entity spawning — NMs appear in the overworld with no instancing required. Walk up and fight them.

Elite Hunts

Kill all 506 regular hunt NMs and the real challenge begins. 25 legendary bosses — characters drawn from FFXI's own story, reimagined as endgame encounters.

Linear progression — elites must be cleared in order. Each one unlocks the next. Difficulty escalates from serious to punishing.
Story characters as bosses — Excenmille, Robel-Akbel, Perih Vashai, Prishe, Tenzen, Iroha, Kamlanaut, Balamor, and more. Each has custom dialogue, personality, and weaponskills that reflect their character from FFXI's story.
Spawn conditions — elites don't just appear. Some require specific weather, day of the week, nation control, or pre-kill requirements (e.g., kill 50 Orcs in the zone before Excenmille will spawn).
Scyld cost — each attempt costs Scyld. Early elites cost 500-1,000. Mid-tier elites cost 2,000-5,000. The final boss costs 25,000.
3 expansion tiers — elites are distributed across FFXI's expansions (base game through RoV), each with an elemental seal and two named bosses.
The Time Devourer — elite #25. Requires all 24 previous elites cleared. Multi-phase, form-shifting. Clearing it means you've beaten Scythe.

The Colosseum

A custom arena zone with timed boss fights. The primary path for earning Exemplar Points and leveling up Master Levels.

7 Tiers

Tier	ML Required	Boss Level	Boss HP	Time Limit	EP Reward
Bronze	0	119	150,000	5 min	1,250
Silver	5	125	400,000	8 min	5,000
Gold	15	130	800,000	12 min	18,750
Platinum	30	135	1,500,000	15 min	50,000
Mythril	40	140	3,000,000	20 min	125,000
Diamond	45	145	5,000,000	25 min	250,000
Adamant	50	150	8,000,000	30 min	500,000

5 Challenge Modes

Normal — standard fight, up to 6 players
Hard — 1.5x HP, 1.3x stats, extra adds spawn, 1.5x EP reward
Speed Kill — 0.8x HP but only 40% of the time limit, 2x EP reward
Solo — 0.5x HP, solo only, 2.5x EP reward
No Magic — no spells allowed, 0.7x HP, 1.8x EP reward

Gauntlet mode available — fight consecutive bosses within a tier, ascending through tiers, or endurance runs. Gauntlet rewards scale with streak length.

Master Levels

50 master levels earned by accumulating Exemplar Points from Colosseum fights. Master levels are tracked per-job — your WAR master level is separate from your BLM master level.

Level 0-10: 2,500 - 31,147 EP per level
Level 10-20: 41,205 - 85,775 EP per level
Level 20-30: 109,112 - 205,578 EP per level
Level 30-40: 258,409 - 606,296 EP per level
Level 40-50: 769,426 - 3,354,604 EP per level

Higher master levels unlock higher Colosseum tiers. Adamant tier (the hardest) requires ML 50 and pits you against level 150 bosses with 8 million HP.

Siege Raids

Server-wide 5-wave raid events with FFXIV-inspired mechanics. When a siege begins, players converge on the battle zone to defend against escalating waves of enemies culminating in a boss fight.

5 waves — escalating difficulty with increasing mob count and strength per wave
Boss AI phases — the siege boss has distinct combat phases with different abilities, vulnerability windows, and mechanics
Vulnerability system — boss takes reduced damage outside of vulnerability windows, rewarding coordinated burst damage
Siege abilities and spells — custom mechanics specific to siege encounters
Visual callouts — on-screen indicators for mechanics
Exemplar Points — siege participation awards EP toward master levels

Relic Weapons Reborn

All 14 relic weapons have been rebalanced to be genuinely endgame-competitive. The numbers:

fTP 5.0 / 9.0 / 13.0 — every relic weaponskill scales aggressively with TP
Multi-hit fTP replication — all hits get the full fTP value, not just the first. This is what makes them competitive with empyrean and mythic WSes.
Occasionally Attacks 3 Times — every relic 119-III weapon has a 50% chance to triple its hits
Ranged relics — Coronach and Namas Arrow have 2 base hits
H2H exception — Final Heaven has 2 hits but no fTP replication (intentional balance)

All 14 relics: Mandau, Excalibur, Ragnarok, Guttler, Bravura, Gungnir, Apocalypse, Kikoku, Amanomurakumo, Mjollnir, Claustrum, Yoichinoyumi, Annihilator, Spharai.

Dynamis Divergence

Instanced high-difficulty Dynamis. Four zones available:

Dynamis-Bastok [D]
Dynamis-San d'Oria [D]
Dynamis-Windurst [D]
Dynamis-Jeuno [D]

Each zone has custom mob pools, divergence-specific droplists, and encounter design tuned for coordinated groups.

Fay Weapon Augments

The Succor to the Sidhe quest system. Trade a Fay, Erlking, Dweomer, Ogre, or other eligible weapon to Callisto in Grauberg [S]. Fight Pixie NMs in Shadowreign zones. Receive an augmented version of your weapon.

20 weapons — one for every job: Oberon's Rapier (RDM), Erlking's Sword (PLD), Rindomaru (SAM), Dweomer Maul (WHM), Fay Lance (DRG), and 15 more
14 Shadowreign zones — each zone has its own augment pool with different stat possibilities (STR, DEX, Accuracy, Attack, Store TP, Double Attack, WSD, MAB, Cure Potency, etc.)
Random augments — up to 2 augments rolled per weapon from the zone's pool, with random values within defined ranges
5 reroll attempts — don't like your augments? Refuse and try again, up to 5 times total