Sycraia Underwater Ruins Revamp

Introduction

Sycraia Underwater Ruins was a popular grind spot and now it has been revamped to stay valueable!

• The revamp is meant to keep the original feeling of the zone to be while buffing the loot and value
• There's new mechanics to the grind spot and Sycraia Upper has been revamped and buffed too
• As part of one of the new #HighestTier grind spots, Sycraia Underwater Ruins has new unique drops
• Since it's now a high end grind spot, there's also some big ticket drops for silver as well

 

New Sycraia Underwater Ruins Revamp 

Since Sycraia Underwater Ruins was always a popular spot, the devs decided to revamp it in order to make it more relevant to high end content again. They've focused on trying to maintain the same feel of the original grind zone.

Now there's a new mechanic that's been added where Sycraia's Memory can appear during combat. It triggers when certain conditions are met, and the rewards improve as you progress.

 

 

For the sake of Ecology knowledge, old monsters will still spawn in the Lower area of Sycraia Underwater Ruins, the new mobs will have [Ancient] in their name to show they're the remade mobs.

 

Original Sycraia Ruins Lower Zone Monster	Remade Sycraia Ruins Lower Zone Monster

 

Differences in monster color are caused by the area's lighting. Actual colors are the same. Now, Ancient Weapons sealed within the Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone have awakened to reclaim the upper ruins making it a tougher spot. 

 

 

New Access to Sycraia Ruins

Now that Sycraia Underwater Ruins has been revamped, the devs wanted to make it easier to get to the grind location since it was a little inconvenient to reach Sycraia. You'll need "Sycraia Upper Zone" knowledge to accept these quests. 

 

To help with this, a quest has been added that lets you travel directly to Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone via NPCs in Velia and on Iliya Island to make things easier. You'll just need to hand over a Fragment of the Deep Sea. 

 

	Quest NPC	Quest Objective
Velia → Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone	Momo	Hand over Fragment of the Deep Sea
Iliya Island → Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone	Shiela

 

 

#Highest-Tier Grind Spots

#Highest-tier is a special tag to the grind spots with the highest requirements, they're basically end game spots that have additional items and rewards added to them to make grinding them more exciting. 

 

The biggest thing that these can drop is probably the items for giving your Sovereign weapons and Edana defense gear a custom glow colour, currently there are only a few colours in the game but more will be added later.

 

 

In #Highest-Tier monster zones, you'll be able to obtain exclusive loot, such as the mentioned Effect Dyes but also Corrupt Oils of Immortality and extra rewards as well. 

 

The devs have said that this #Highest-Tier tag will be something that shifts around when more grind spots added that are even more challenging or have higher requirements, the loot will only come from zones with the #Highest-Tier tag.

 

The For a full breakdown on how to craft the Effect Dyes, check out our guide below!

 

 

Revamped Sycraia Underwater Ruins Drops

Now that both Sycraia Underwater Ruins Upper & Lower have been revamped, the drops for each location have been adjusted to match their new difficulties. We'll start with the new Upper Zone first:  

 

Sycraia Upper Zone Recommended Stats	Sycraia Upper Zone Main Loot
Based on Displayed Stats 300 AP 400 DP   Based on Total Stats 1,100 AP 440 DP (AP Limit: 1,130)	Rich Merchant's Ring Piece Sycrid's Song Deboreka Ring Tungrad Ring Marni's Research Box Forgotten Limbo Box Abyssal Essence Sealed Black Magic Crystal
Junk Loot Destroyed Ancient Weapon Power Stone (33,800 Silver)

 

Item Drop Rate effects now also work in the Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone and there's an increase in the Rich Merchant's Ring Piece drop rate by approx. 1.33x when using Allan Serbin's Landscape to match the zone's difficulty.

 

Agris Fever Consumption (Sycraia Ruins Upper Zone)
Damaged Pirash Damaged Lykin Damaged Kureba	7

 

The contents of Great Marni's Supply Box (an exchange reward from Marni's Stone obtainable via Marni's Research Box) have also been buffed.

 

You can now obtain the following with a set probability: Deboreka Ring, Deboreka Necklace, Deboreka Belt, and Deboreka Earring (up to DUO (II)

 

Old Great Marni's Stones obtained before the remake will still provide the old reward box.

 

Overall, despite limited data due to the spot being new, Sycraia Upper has gone from being forgettable to competing with places like Crypt of Resting Thoughts, [Dehkia] Aakman Temple, Olun's Valley and Gyfin Rhasia Underground. 

 

 

You can check up to date breakdowns on each zone to see their silver per hour values by checking our Grind Tracker!

 

CC attacks in the Sycraia Ruins Upper and Lower Zones to Knockback/Floating. Here are the drops for the new revamped Sycraia Lower Zone: 

Recommended Stats	Main Loot
Based on Displayed Stats 395 AP 460 DP   Based on Total Stats 1,905 AP 800 DP (AP Limit: 1,935)	Tungrad Ring (up to III) Deboreka Ring  (up to TET) Rich Merchant's Ring Piece Sycraia Shard
Junk Loot Underwater Ancient Weapon Power Stone (107,900 Silver)

 

Agris Fever Consumption (Sycraia Ruins Lower Zone)
[Ancient Weapon] Pirash [Ancient Weapon] Lykin [Ancient Weapon] Kureba [Ancient Weapon] Elmermol	9

 

You can now also obtain Sycraia Shards from the Lower Zone to craft new crystals via Simple Alchemy.

 

Item	Central Market Min Price	Central Market Max Price
Sycraia Shard	12,500,000 Silver	50,000,000 Silver

 

New Crystal	Item Effects	Crafting Materials (Simple Alchemy)	Central Market Price
Sycraia Crystal - Adamantine	Extra AP Against Monsters +4 Knockdown/Bound Resistance +25%	Ancient Magic Crystal of Nature - Adamantine x1 Sycraia Shard x30 Magical Shard x300 Black Stone x500	Max: 3,000,000,000 Silver Min: 300,000,000 Silver
Sycraia Crystal - Fighting Spirit	Extra AP Against Monsters +4 Knockback/Floating Resistance +25%	Ancient Magic Crystal of Nature - Fighting Spirit x1 Sycraia Shard x30 Magical Shard x300 Black Stone x500
Sycraia Crystal - Giant	Extra AP Against Monsters +4 Stun/Stiffness/Freezing Resistance +25	Ancient Magic Crystal of Nature - Giant x1 Sycraia Shard x30 Magical Shard x300 Black Stone x500

 

Since the new Sycraia Underwater Ruins Lower revamp has the #Highest-Tier tag that was mentioned earlier, here are the drops that are assosciated with a grind spot that has been given that specification. 

 

Item Name	Min Price	Max Price
Crimson Primordial Luster - Sovereign	100M Silver	500M Silver
Violet Primordial Luster - Sovereign	100M Silver	500M Silver
Violet Primordial Luster - Edana	100M Silver	500M Silver
Crimson Primordial Pigment - Sovereign	10B Silver	50B Silver
Violet Primordial Pigment - Sovereign	10B Silver	50B Silver
Violet Primordial Pigment - Edana	10B Silver	50B Silver

 

Sycraia Underwater Ruins Lower is pretty competitive and gives a different grind spot location if you don't feel like grinding in Edana, but Orbita Castle has less requirements and generally performs better in money per hour so far. 

 

 

The Star's End revamp, Tenebraum Castle and Dark Energy Floodlands also perform better for similar stats but Sycraia Underwater Lower does also drop Refined Essence of Devouring as well which is nice. 

 

It's likely that as more data is produced for Sycraia Ruins Lower Zone we'll be able to get a clearer representation on how much the spot can earn per hour which has the potential to be higher than the previously mentioned spots.

 

 

Have you tried the Revamped monster zones yet? Let us know! 

 

Why not check out some of our other guides while you're here?