How to get & farm Terminus Weapons (6th Weapon)

Need to farm your Terminus Weapons? Curious about the 6th Weapon Type? Read on!

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This guide focuses on one specific thing: How to get Terminus Weapons, and farming for them efficiently. If you're curious, it's the sixth weapon slot. This is NOT the place for information regarding the Terminus Weapon Type.

Obtaining Terminus Weapons: Basics

Let's get this out of the way - the absolute basics of getting a Terminus Weapon.

  • Terminus Weapons are a boss drop from Proto-Bahamut. It's the Proud difficulty mission, "The Tale of Bahamut's Rage".
  • Reportedly, the drop rate is around 5-10%.
  • You can only get a Terminus Weapon for a Character you've unlocked.
  • Unlocking more /all characters reportedly increases Terminus Weapon drop rate (I think this is legit).
  • You cannot get a Terminus Weapon twice, thankfully.

Judging from my own experience, once you open the chests it determines if you've gotten a Terminus Weapon, then, rolls one randomly out of your unlocked characters. So, eventually you'll get your mains weapon! How long that will take? Well, hehe.

Farming Terminus / Proto Bahamut more Efficiently

The fight isn't that exciting. He's pretty much a punching bag to experienced parties. While this is advantageous, it can be a bit boring...

Mahiko San Tip: The grind for Terminus Weapons has some other loot thankfully
You get Curios, and notably Damage Cap V+ from this guy too!

I'll give you some tips to make the grind more sane.

Avoid Soloing it. Open matchmaking is your friend

The average player out there is better than your AI, even if that doesn't seem like the case in your recent memory heh. Quite simply, faster DPS means faster clears.

Proper use of SBA

Often, Proto Bahamut can be seen taking a little nap on the deck. Either when you get a break, or after many of his mechanics. Slam your SBA as he's trying to get up to extend these "Free DPS" phases. After at least a 2-Chain Burst, he goes to nap for a bit again - value!

Use 2x 2-Chain Bursts instead of a 4 Full Burst. While this really depends on your party (some people don't know about this), you can get him to go back to sleep TWICE by splitting your Full Burst into 2x 2 Chain Bursts instead.

Can't get your mains Terminus? BUILD UP ANOTHER ONE!

Got a Terminus for another character you're interested in? USE IT. Heck, you're gonna eventually build this character right? It's a huge boost in damage, making your farming easier yet again.

Mahiko San Tip: If you do go for a "secondary character" Terminus, AVOID AWAKENING IT.
This is also a relevant grind, you might want to save materials for your main.

Also, it helps you get a feel for the rest of your build and Sigils that you'll be using for your main eventually. Building this secondary char gives you insights on how to build your main!

Summary, Related Info

I have nothing else to say here but I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK FARMING YOUR TERMINUS WEAPONS. It can be a very frustrating grind getting the ones you don't need, but the bright side is you'll EVENTUALLY GET THERE - since you can never get two of the same Terminus Weapon, you'll have it soon buddy.

Remind your friends that Terminus Weapon Drops are affected by Roster Size, so try to hold off recruiting everyone until you get one or two Terminus Weapons you like.