The Great Gubal Library (Hard)

The Great Gubal Library (Hard)
(稀書回収　グブラ幻想図書館 (Hard), Kisho Kaishū Gubura Gensō Toshokan (Hard)?, lit. Rare Book Collection Gubal Phantom Library (Hard))
Expansion	Heavensward
Patch	3.4
Type	Dungeon
Level	60 (Synced to 60)
Item level	210
Time limit	90 minutes
Party comp	x1 x1 x2
Tomestones	70
Unlock quest	Let Me Gubal That for You
Bosses	Demon of the Tome Liquid Flame Strix

The Great Gubal Library (Hard) is a Dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, released in Patch 3.4, Soul Surrender.

Story

Great Gubal Library (Hard)

Your reputation clearly precedes you, as a mysterious client would call upon you—and you alone—for the formidable task of retrieving a particularly rare volume from the deepest, most forbidding halls of this long-abandoned storehouse of Sharlayan wisdom. Though the mind boggles to imagine what eldritch horrors and sorcerous abominations now wander its halls, one thing is certain: they are not like to take kindly to the presence of a warm-blooded would-be book burglar...

Duty Finder

Objectives

• Arrive in the Hall of Magicks.
• Clear the Hall of Magicks.
• Arrive in the Astrology and Astromancy Camera.
• Clear the Astrology and Astromancy Camera.
• Arrive in the Rare Tomes Room.
• Defeat Strix.

Enemies

• Spine Breaker
• Bibliophagist
• Bibliovore
• Bibliolater
• Baboulas
• High Baboulas
• Demon of the Tome
• Inkstain
• Biblioclast
• Fire Homunculus
• Bibliophobe
• Enchanted Inkhorn
• Forbidden Tome
• Living Liquid
• Poroggo Pegist
• Poroggo Polist
• Mechanomagus
• Mechanoscribe
• Mechanoservitor
• Apanda
• Strix

Maps

Middle Floors.

Upper Floors.

Musical themes

"Bibliophobia", a melancholy arrangement of the regular Great Gubal Library theme "Ink Long Dry", plays at all times except during boss battles.

"Persistence" plays while fighting The Demon of the Tome and the Liquid Flame, while "Revenge Twofold" plays during the battle with the Strix.

Trivia

• As with the regular version of the duty, there are several books in the library that players can read. These include:
  • "The Boy and the Dragon Gay" - the children's tale of a boy who is abducted by bandits and taken to the northern mountains, where he is saved from dangerous beasts by a dragon. The injured boy climbs upon the dragon's back and the two fly off together.
  • "Of Loves Unrequited" - the lamentations of an individual who fears that, being a Roegadyn, they will never be loved by the object of their affections: Brayflox Alltalks.
  • "Over the Horizon Redux" - further details on the Mamool Ja tribes of The New World, including the names of several: the Hoobigo, the Boonewa and the Doppro. Mamool Ja are said to rarely marry outside their own tribes, except at times of religious significance; two-headed Mamool Ja are known to result from these inter-tribal marriages, and the Autarch - the leader of all Mamool Ja - is rumoured to be one of them.
  • "On the Culinary Applications of Coblyns" - a text written by an enthusiastic gourmand who resolves to see what coblyn flesh tastes like. This is followed by a brief passage from the author's younger sibling, who explains that their brother soon discovered, with fatal consequences, that coblyn feelers are poisonous. They decide nevertheless to continue on their brother's work in his memory.
  • "Proceedings of the Council of Magi" - a record of the proceedings of the 248th Convocation of the Amdapori Council of Magi, where attendees deliberated on the name for a new healing spell superior to Curaga. After deciding that the names proposed by the council (including Curaja) are "duly lacking in gravity", compounded by the "needlessly abstruse" nature of spell naming conventions, the council votes by a majority of 17-3 to instead use a new naming format: Cure I, Cure II, Cure III and so on.
  • "The Boy and the Dragon Gay: A Literary Analysis" - an analysis of the aforementioned children's tale, believed by many scholars to derive from an older Ishgardian myth. In the original myth, a shepherd boy is abducted by bandits from his village in Coerthas; before they can sell him to slavers, they are slaughtered by a dragon whom the boy had befriended some time ago. In the midst of all this the boy falls from a cliff, and in order to save his life the dragon grants the boy some of its blood. The boy is transformed, and the two fly off together.

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