Cinder Drift

Cinder Drift
(ルビーウェポン破壊作戦, Rubīwepon Hakai Sakusen?, lit. Ruby Weapon Destroying Operation)
Expansion	Shadowbringers
Patch	5.2
Type	Trial
Location	Ghimlyt Dark
Normal
Level	80 (Synced to 80)
Item level	455
Time limit	60 minutes
Party comp	x2 x2 x4
Roulette	Trials
Tomestones	12
Unlock quest	Ruby Doomsday
Followed by	Castrum Marinum
Bosses	The Ruby Weapon
Extreme
Level	80 (Synced to 80)
Item level	470
Time limit	60 minutes
Party comp	x2 x2 x4
Tomestones	25
Unlock quest	Weapon of Choice
Bosses	The Ruby Weapon

Cinder Drift is a level 80 Trial in Final Fantasy XIV added in patch 5.2, and the first part of the Sorrow of Werlyt trial series.

See also: Ruby Weapon

Story

Normal

Though the original Ultima Weapon, piloted by Gaius Baelsar, was destroyed in the decisive battle at the Praetorium, Garlemald has been secretly developing its successor. Now, this diabolical melding of Allagan and Garlean technologies has been deployed to annihilate those who would oppose the Empire. At the behest of none other than Gaius Baelsar himself, you cross the scorched battlefield of the Ghimlyt Dark to halt this crimson menace before it lays waste to Eorzea.

Duty Finder description

Taking place in a region of the Ghimlyt Dark, the Warrior of Light faces off against the Ruby Weapon, a Garlean warmachina designed to break the stalemate with Eorzea. After crippling the machine, they fight and defeat a manifestation of Nael van Darnus.

Extreme

Garlond Ironworks attracts a fair number of mechanically minded lunatics, and even goes so far as to offer some of them employment. One in particular has taken it upon himself to craft likenesses of Garlean warmachina, including that of the recently defeated Ruby Weapon. A restored Allagan device uses it as a basis to project images of a foe far more ferocious than the one you had previously laid low, and your mind is filled with visions of what might have been.

Duty Finder description

Stone, Sky, Sea - Cinder Drift (Extreme)

He who views simulated images of an enormous crimson warmachina some time after battling the actual enormous crimson warmachina is either great warrior or great fool.

Stone, Sky, Sea description

Progression

Normal

The Ruby Weapon
ルビーウェポン (Rubīwepon?) Alternate names: Mark III Anti-Eikon Warmachina (ＡＰＷ－ＩＩＩ, APW-III?)
Level	80

The Ruby Weapon
ルビーウェポン (Rubīwepon?)
Level	80

Extreme

Ruby Weapon
ルビーウェポン (Rubīwepon?) Alternate names: Mark III Anti-Eikon Warmachina (ＡＰＷ－ＩＩＩ, APW-III?)
Level	80

Ruby Weapon
ルビーウェポン (Rubīwepon?)
Level	80

Musical themes

Main articles: Ultima (song) or Rise of the White Raven

"Ultima (Scions & Sinners)"

"Rise of the White Raven (Orchestral Version)"

Taken from the Scions & Sinners: Final Fantasy XIV ~Arrangement Album~ and performed by The Primals, "Ultima (Scions & Sinners)" plays during the first phase. "Rise of the White Raven (Orchestral Version)" plays during the second phase, taken from the Eorzean Symphony: Final Fantasy XIV Orchestral Album.

Gallery

Etymology

[view · edit · purge]A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). It is the birthstone for July.