Cirque gear guide - your one stop Clown gear shopFollow

EDIT December 7, 2010: New information on the Body, Hands, and Earring coming in and being added to the post.

- Body, Hands, Earring added to guide below
- Apparently Scars zone Resistance Ops can now give +1 head/legs/feet seals as a reward, new since December update.
- Dominion Ops can give +1 seals for body/hands
- JSE earrings are dropping from NMs, haven't seen any reports of Cirque Earring dropping yet though.

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Thought I'd make one cohesive post to assist people with a clear guide to the Cirque set and upgrades. Please continue to contribute as you learn any new information, and I'll update the top post as others find more information.

I. OBTAINING THE GEAR

Feet: Cirque Scarpe (lv. 81)
NQ stats: DEF:17 STR+2 DEX+2 INT+2
+1 stats: DEF:20 STR+5 DEX+5 INT+5 Acc+8 Enhances "Tactical Switch" effect
+2 stats: DEF:22 STR+8 DEX+8 INT+8 Acc+12 Enhances "Tactical Switch" effect
Automaton: INT+13 MND+13
Set: Attack occ. varies with automaton's HP (Set effect is per piece for any +2 pieces equipped)

* Obtained from Gold chests (large or small) in Abyssea-Vunkerl. Chest rewards are random and may include feet for the jobs associated with that zone, key items, items, temporary items.
* Magian Trials to upgrade - 4213 (for +1, need 8 Cirque Seal: Feet) and 4273 (for +2, need 6 Jewel of Voyage)

Legs: Cirque Pantaloni (lv. 83)
NQ stats: DEF:41 Acc+3 Atk+3
+1 stats: DEF:44 Acc+7 Atk+7 Haste+3%, Enhances "Martial Arts" effect
Automaton:Enhances combat skill
+2 stats: DEF:46 Acc+10 Atk+10 Haste+4%, Enhances "Martial Arts" effect
Automaton: Enhances combat skill
Set: Attack occ. varies with automaton's HP (Set effect is per piece for any +2 pieces equipped)

* 1000 Resistance Credits from Bastion, obtained from Bastion Prefect in Abyssea-Vunkerl
* Magian Trials to upgrade - 4193 (for +1, need 8 Cirque Seal: Legs) and 4253 (for +2, need 6 Stone of Balance)

Head: Cirque Capello (lv. 85)
NQ stats: DEF:28 "Double Attack"+1%
+1 stats: DEF:31 "Double Attack"+2% Haste+5% Automaton: TP Bonus
+2 stats: DEF:33 Hand-to-Hand skill+5 "Double Attack"+3% Haste+6% Automaton: TP Bonus
Set: Attack occ. varies with automaton's HP (Set effect is per piece for any +2 pieces equipped)

* 20,000 Cruor, obtained from Cruor Prospector in Abyssea-Vunkerl.
* Magian Trials to upgrade - 4173 (for +1, need 8 Cirque Seal: Head) and 4233 (for +2, need 6 Jewel of Vision)

Hands: Cirque Guanti (lv. 87)
NQ stats: DEF:21 STR+2 DEX+2
+1 stats: DEF:24 STR+4 DEX+4 AGI+4 "Store TP"+4 Haste+3%
Automaton: STR+10 DEX+10 AGI+10
+2 stats: DEF:26 STR+6 DEX+6 AGI+6 "Store TP"+6 Haste+4%
Automaton: STR+13 DEX+13 AGI+13
Set: Attack occ. varies with automaton's HP (Set effect is per piece for any +2 pieces equipped)

* 25,000 Cruor, obtained from Cruor Prospector in Abyssea-Grauberg
* Magian Trials to upgrade - TO BE ADDED SOON

Body: Cirque Farsetto (lv. 89)
NQ stats: DEF:53 Acc+7 Atk +7
+1 stats: DEF:56 DEX+6 Acc+14 Atk+14 Haste+2% Reduces "Overload" rate
+2 stats: DEF:59 DEX+10 Acc+20 Atk+20 Haste+3% Reduces "Overload" rate
Set: Attack occ. varies with automaton's HP (Set effect is per piece for any +2 pieces equipped)

* 1500 Dominion Notes from Dominion NPC in Abyssea-Grauberg
* Magian Trials to upgrade - TO BE ADDED SOON

Neck: Cirque Necklace (lv. 80), Acc+5, Enhances Martial Arts effect (-10 delay reduction)
* Dropped (not 100%) by Keesha Poppo, timed spawn Opo-opo NM in Abyssea-La Theine.

Waist: Cirque Sash (lv. 84), DEX+6, Haste+6%
* Dropped by Ironclad Severer, Abyssea-Misareaux.
* Iron Giant NMs appear to have 100% drop rate on all accessories. Ironclad Severer drops accessories for PUP, SMN, and BLM (along with other armor).

Earring: Cirque Earring (lv. 90), Automaton: Attack+2 Ranged Attack+2 Magic Atk. Bonus+2
* MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON - ITEM ADDED IN DECEMBER UPDATE!
* Likely drops from an NM in Heroes zones (other jobs' lv90 JSE earrings confirmed to drop from NMs), any confirmation of Cirque Earring drops appreciated.

II. OBTAINING THE SEALS TO DO YOUR +1 UPGRADES
The head/legs/feet +1 upgrade items are split up to the Scars zones as follows: Head = Attohwa, Legs = Misereaux, Feet = Vunkerl. For head/legs/feet, there are two ways to get seals - one repeatable quest per zone, and several NMs per zone that drop the seals.

For the body/hands, seals for +1 upgrade for both pieces are confirmed possible random rewards from completing Dominion ops. More information coming to determine whether it is only from specific ops, zones, etc. Also yet to be confirmed whether they also drop from NMs or other quests in the Heroes zones.

a) Quests.
Cirque seals quests for head, legs, and feet (need 8 seals to upgrade each piece from NQ to +1):

Head: An Acrididaen Anodyne (Yoran-Oran, Abyssea-Attohwa, lv3 fame required)
Legs: Smoke Over the Coast (Hungry Wolf, Abyssea-Misareaux, lv1 fame required)
Feet: Scattered Shells, Scattered Mind (Aladoverre, Abyssea-Vunkerl, lv3 fame required)
* PUP seals drop alongside RDM/DRK/RNG in the above quests. A seal will sometimes be given as a reward, and which of the four jobs appears to be completely random.
* The above quests are repeatable, but require zoning between completing and re-flagging the quest. Using a conflux does not count as zoning.

b) Notorious Monsters.
For the head/legs/feet, +1 Seals also drop from Abyssea NMs. Head drops in Attohwa, Legs in Misareaux, and Feet in Vunkerl (corresponding to the same zones having the quests for those slots). NMs that drop Cirque seals:

Head (Abyssea-Attohwa): Mielikki, Blazing Eruca, Aggressor Antlion
Legs (Abyssea-Misareaux): Funereal Apkallu, Flame Skimmer, Nonno
Feet (Abysstea-Vunkerl): Dvalinn, Gnawtooth Gary, Lord Varney

* NMs can drop multiples of the same seal in one kill.
* Like the quests, these NMs have a chance to drop seals for four preset jobs, though not the same four jobs (DRK RNG RDM PUP) as the seal quests.

c) Resistance Ops.
As of December update, it appears Resistance Ops in the Scars zones can now reward players with head/legs/feet seals. Further information to come, please reply to this thread with any confirmed information.

d) Dominion.
Dominion quests/ops can reward players with seals for head/hands upgrades. Further information to come, please reply to this thread with any confirmed information.

III. OBTAINING THE JEWELS/STONES TO DO YOUR +2 UPGRADES

** This section to be updated as we find out more about the +2 upgrades for body/hands. Seems likely they might have to do with the higher tier NMs from the Dominion system and/or Heroes zone bosses/VNMs. **

+2 upgrade items drop from higher level NMs in Abyssea zones. Armor slot shares the same zone as the zone where seals come from for that slot. Multiples of the same upgrade item can drop from one kill, and multiple jobs share the same upgrade items. Key items for the popped NMs below are found in gold chests or from minor NM drops. Some other jobs do get +2 upgrade items from T3 Abyssea VNM drops, but PUP does not.

PUP items drop from:

Jewel of Vision (Head, Abyssea-Attohwa)
1. Titlacauan - Spawned by trading Blotched Doomed Tongue, Cracked Skeleton Clavicle, Writhing Ghost Finger, and Rusted Hound Collar (key items) to the ??? @ (F-7)
2. Ulhuadshi - Spawned by trading a Mucid Worm Segment and Shrivelled Hecteyes Stalk (key items) to the ??? @ (J/K-7)

Stone of Balance (Legs, Abyssea-Misareaux)
1. Cirein-croun - Spawned by Trading Glistening Orobon Liver and Doffled Porrogo Hat (key items) to ??? @ (H-5)
2. Sobek - Spawned by trading Bloodstained Bugard Fang, Gnarled Lizard Nail, and Molted Peiste Skin (key items) to ??? @ (J-11)

Jewel of Voyage (Feet, Abyssea-Vunkerl)
1. Durinn - Spawned by trading Decayed Dvergr Tooth, Pulsating Soulflayer Beard, Chipped Imp's Olifant (key items) to ??? @ (E-12)
2. Sedna - Spawned by trading Glossy Sea Monk Sucker and Shimmering Pugil Scale (key items) to ??? @ (K-6)

Edited, Dec 7th 2010 6:30pm by Anza

Thank you, for someone claiming to be a full time PUP I've been occupying myself with 2 Magian staves ; ;

I hope to get started on these shortly.

That would definitely be a helpful addition - anyone been in Attohwa or Vunkerl? I've barely touched Attohwa since the update, and I haven't done any Vunkerl quests either (and since Vunkerl seems to need a higher fame level, maybe even more important to know what to focus on there).

The sausage quest for legs seals does have a helpful effect of getting you a bunch of Misareaux fame if you need it for other stuff.

Attohwa is easy just do Something in the Air Weyward wares + doing bastion op X7 = enough fame for An Acrididaen Anodyne avoided ponono's quest + hazy prospects (since miasma is always down).

As for vunkerl outside of repeatable bastion ops The Boxwatcher's Behest (heavy gives more fame) A Ward to End All Wards (Saved some items from abyessa mobs or found on ah some doesn't work.)



Edited, Sep 16th 2010 7:10pm by Szabo

exellent info anza as always, i need to start getting fame so i can upgrade my cappelo, but there's a lot stuff i need to do too, hmmm, thats what i like about this game, by this date, there's just a lot of content. frankly im never bored lol.

im liking the AF names, very Italiano.

In Abyssea - Attohwa, Blazing Eruca drops Cirque Seal: Head.

I got one the other night when my LS killed it.


Trade an Eruca Egg to the ??? at J-10 (Along the south wall, a little west of the Martello).



I believe that the Atma weakness trigger (!!) is dancing edge, but I have not been able to confirm that yet. The first time we fought it, a few WS went off with the !!. The second time, we didnt have our thf there, and none of the other moves that were landing caused a !! to appear.

From the couple times we fought it, it appears that when it has its blaze spikes, melee damage will hurt it, and magic will heal it. But, when it drops its blaze spikes, melee will heal it, and magic will hurt it. Again, I have not been able to 100% confirm this, but that seemed to be what was happening when my LS fought it.

FYI the grasshopper gathering for head pieces are....UH-noying lol. UGH SE! TEDIOUS!...

Only 25%? Aww that's disappointing if true. It's still a Turban +1 that looks awesome, but as a long time Martial weapon user (Martial Gun on COR for uber Slug Shot) I was totally looking forward to letting my puppet get a taste of that 100tp bonus.

How was this tested to determine it is 25% bonus?

Interesting, Never knew Cannibal Blade worked like that. I feel your pain on melee skill leveling... honestly; It's All it can do and it skills as often as you said, Guard. Watch SE give Valoredge a rather nice Weaponskill way up at 350 skill too XD

I'm pretty certain 300 skill is too low for stormwaker. My harlequin has 310 melee skill with af3+1 pants, and he still only does magic mortar. :x

Then again, they'd have to update the automatons to actually have the weaponskills, so it's possible it will get it at 300 skill, but because the .dat isn't in the game yet, it's not able to do it, cause there's nothing there, lol.

i know i'll totally get creamed for this but i just join an abys party and send in my pldbot lol got me some good skillups and fairly quickly, i'm only about 7 to cap now at 87, do the same with sharpshot to catch up ranged skills but it pulls so much hate its a bit annoying having to use every tool to keep hate on me or him alive, but it works.

Granted it comes to a screeching halt the last couple levels but you get excited when you see that bar of golden text with a .3 or .2 auto skill up :D

Thanks for the info - added to the initial post.

A question to everyone that's relevant here too. I'm not looking forward to spamming boring quests for my head/feet upgrades, so... anyone had any good luck on NMs? Would be interesting to know party combinations, strats, etc.

Care to divulge a little more about your strat? or is it as simple as it sounds? I know a pretty Ace rdm who would love the blm feet seals that can drop...

I remember someone mentioned about possible seals associated with specific gasponia for the AF head quest, at first i didnt believe it, and went 1/30 (ARGH) using the front two gasponia, closest to the 00 warp. Then tonight i saw that a bastion was going on so instead of injecting the front flower i run to do bastion, then eventually did one of the back flowers which got me a cirque head. I went hmm...did it again same flower, Cirque head >_> did it again but that flower was still full so i did the flower next to it, RDM head...came back to my "pup gasponia", got Cirque head... so PUP PUP RDM(cuz pup was still full) PUP....i'm totally sticking to this flower lol

Just wondering if anyone noticed anything like or are you just doing different/same flowers?

Until it can be shown with overwhelming evidence, and not just random anecdotal reports from a handful of tries...

Random number generator is random.

If this gets like the ridiculous Wiki discussion page on the sausage quest, it's useless information. Otherwise, these claims don't look any different to me than some crackpot theory that you'll get more PUP drops on Iceday, facing East, between 12:00-2:00, with /THF subjob, while wearing a Glory Crown and eating ginger cookies.

Darn I was hoping you were on to something there.

Guess you were really lucky that night.

Regarding the Capello +1, is it the general consensus that it's better to use Spurrer's Beret at this point when using a melee puppet? Is this more of a "when using a mage puppet" piece or to be macro'd in for puppet weapon skills?

This is te math for Shaolin Vs. Cirque sash. well the anwser anywas unless ur delay is only 166 then Cirque is far better. :/ not sure way SE had to go and make all the Martial Arts gear we get gimp (aside from Kenkonken :D) 10,10,5 ; ; its just not nice. on the other hand havin gear that gives u -60 or -100 if u have Kenkon(80) would be a little unfair.

Edited, Oct 7th 2010 1:52pm by Tesahade

Spurrer sh*ts all over walmart if your puppet is meleeing. Spurrer > Capello +1, Cappello +2 >/= Spurrer

You're not gimp, but you're wearing a turban +1(and there's nothing wrong with turban). It's just that Spurrer will give you more DoT in a lot of situations when using a melee puppet.

same sh*t, different helmet

Every time that I went to camp her, I'd go in 1 hour after her death, and she had already repopped, so the minimum repop time is under an hour.

I'd round it to 90 mins, but this matches fairly well with my experience as well

Grellow doesn't effect armor though, and for the record, 0/13

Is this really worth doing? Once we all realized how poor the MA was, everybody stopped caring... right?

EDIT: Personally, my new goal is Agasaya's Collar.

Edited, Nov 8th 2010 10:09am by SelkaSeraph