CatsEyeXI Content/Summit of the Stars

Introduction

Summit of the Stars (SOTS or simply "Summit") is a weekly competitive linkshell event in CatsEyeXI where linkshells compete for supremacy by earning activity points. These points are obtained through various in-game tasks, including:

• Eliminating specific mob families
• Defeating specific Notorious Monsters
• Completing Daily Quests
• Participating in Domain Invasion
• Completing Weekly Hunts
• Undertaking Ventures

After the conquest tally each week, the linkshell with the most points earns several prizes, including:

• Access to the sanctuary of Leafallia, which has been customized with a variety of amenities
• A reward of gil or wyrm gold
• The ability to summon powerful Summit-exclusive trusts
• The ability to select global, server-wide buffs such as Treasure Hunter+, synth HQ rate+, and auto-reraise

In addition to increasing your linkshell's score, completing summit activities also adds points to your personal bank, which you can spend on a variety of prizes.

Global linkshells (e.g. "CatsEyeXI") are not eligible to participate in the SOTS competition.

Earning Points

In order to begin earning Activity Points (AP), you must complete the Summit of the Stars quest and defeat Nyx Animus.

Activity points you earn for your character are applied to the points score of the linkshell you have equipped in your #1 slot.

Players may earn up to 30,000 AP per day, and up to 70,000 AP per week. This means players must log in and complete activities at least three days per week in order to maximize their weekly contribution.

Important Note!

In order to earn activity points or be considered eligible for the Summit competition at all, your linkpearl equipped in slot 1 must be in your inventory. If your linkpearl is in your mog satchel, case, or other mog storage, you will not be able to earn points.

Scaling Factor

SOTS takes into account linkshell size by using a scaling system to ensure fairness:

Scaling Factor = 20 / (10 + Number of Active Members)

The "Number of Active Members" is the number of linkshell members who have earned more than 10,000 activity points in a given week. Because of this scaling factor, if a player does not anticipate being able to contribute much to their linkshell's effort in a given week, they may use the command "!summit off" to disable earning AP and avoid being added to their linkshell's number of active members. Even with summit off, players will be able to earn points for their personal bank, which can be used to purchase rewards.

Win Streak Penalty

Linkshells who win the competition have an additional 25% penalty on their scaled points the following week. This discourages the same linkshell from winning the competition week after week. That penalty slowly decays 10% at a time week after week, until it reaches zero. Example:

• Week 1: Your linkshell wins → 25% penalty applied next week
• Week 2: You don't win → Penalty drops to 15%
• Week 3: Still no win → Penalty drops to 5%
• Week 4: Your linkshell wins → Penalty increases to 30%

If you contributed to your linkshell's victory, or contributed points to your linkshell's Summit score while they are under a win streak penalty, it means a couple of things for your character. Both of these effects last until your linkshell's win streak penalty reaches 0%.

• You will be unable to contribute to the score of any other linkshell; you are "locked in" to your winning linkshell. This is to prevent players from changing linkshells every week to maintain control of Leafallia.
• You will be able to make use of Ygnas's trust service to gain access to August or Shantotto II for a week, even if your linkshell didn't place in the top 5. See the Trust Access section to learn more.

Points Per Activity

Points Earned Per Activity
Activity	AP Earned	Notes
Completing Goblin Daily Quests	750 AP
Completing Sea Daily Quests	500 AP
Defeating members of the target monster family	50 AP	Monster families rotate automatically every four hours. Designated mobs will have a special icon next to their name. See the full list of target families below. Players can only earn points for target monster family kills once every 2 seconds.
Defeating certain Notorious Monsters	500-5000 AP	See full list below.
Completing the Weekly Hunt	5000 AP
Ventures	300 AP	Points are awarded after each cycle of 20 enemies.
Completing specific Battlefields	500-1000 AP	Points-earning battlefields include: all BCNMs, KSNMs, ISNMs, ENMs, Divine Might, Ouryu Cometh, and The Wyrmking Descends. The amount of points earned per character depends on party/alliance size. A single character earns only 500 points; two characters earn 600 points each; three characters earn 700 points each; and so on, until six or more characters earn 1000 points each. These points are doubled for KS99s, and tripled for the Wyrmking Descends. A bonus 500 points are awarded for breaking a battlefield's clear time record.
Completing an Einherjar chamber	500-1000 AP	Points are awarded when the treasure chest appears, and the amount earned depends on party/alliance size (as with BCNMs).
Domain Invasion	250 AP
Garrison	250-500 AP	Similar to BCNMs, the amount of points earned per character depends on party/alliance size. A single character earns only 250 points; two characters earn 300 points each; three characters earn 350 points each; and so on, until six or more characters earn 500 points each.
Yagudo Arena, Tonberry Trouble, and Goblin's Gambit	250-500 AP	CW only. The amount of points earned per character depends on party/alliance size.

Full List of Monster Families
Adamantoise	Ahriman	Antica	Antlion	Apkallu
Bat	Bee	Beetle	Bird (vulture/crow type)	Bomb
Buffalo	Bugard	Bugbear	Cardian	Chigoe
Cockatrice	Coeurl	Colibri	Corporeal Undead †	Crab
Crawler	Dhalmel	Diremite	Doll	Eft
Elemental	Empty	Evil Weapon	Flan	Fly
Flytrap	Fomor (shadows)	Funguar	Gargouille	Ghost
Gigas	Gnat	Gnoll	Goblin	Golem
Goobbue	Greater Bird (roc)	Hecteyes	Hippogryph	Imp
Kindred	Ladybug	Lamiae (and merrow)	Leech	Lizard
Luminion (ghrah and zdei)	Lumorian ‡	Magic Pot	Mamool Ja	Mandragora
Manticore	Marid	Opo-opo	Orc	Peiste
Poroggo (includes frogs)	Pugil	Puk	Qiqirn	Quadav
Rabbit	Raptor	Sabotender	Sahagin	Sapling
Scorpion	Sea Monk	Sheep	Slime	Slug
Soulflayer	Spider	Tauri	Tiger	Tonberry
Treant	Troll	Voragean (Escha-Ru'Aun)	Wamoura	Wivre
Worm	Wyvern	Yagudo

† "Corporeal Undead" indicates any undead that has a physical body, e.g. not ghosts or shadows/fomors.
‡ "Lumorian" includes aern, euvhi, hpemde, phuabo, yovra, and xzomit.

Notorious Monster Activity Points
NM	AP Earned
Medusa / Gurfurlur / Gulool	3000 AP
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Trust Access

Access to the powerful trusts August and Shantotto II are, for many players, the biggest draw for the Summit of the Stars competition. (Mainly August, he's insanely good.) In order to make use of these trusts, you must first purchase their Cipher from Ygnas or Ruspix for 5,000 Activity Points and trade the Cipher to the Trust NPC as you normally would.

But summoning these trusts requires players to continue to compete in the Summit competition. Here's how it works:

• If you currently have a linkshell equipped in your LS1 slot that won first place in the Summit competition last week, you will be able to summon both trusts for free at will.
• If your linkshell earned 2nd through 5th place in the Summit competition last week, you can be authorized to summon these trusts for one week (until conquest tally) with the help of Ygnas in Ru'Lude Gardens (near the mog house). Trade him an Apex, Pinnacle, or Apogee token (earned via our custom Stronghold Invasion system), and pay him some Activity Points, and he will authorize you to summon one trust of your choice until the weekly conquest reset. You can do this twice to get a week's access to both trusts. The activity points costs are as follows:
  • 2nd place: 3000 AP
  • 3rd place: 4000 AP
  • 4th place: 5000 AP
  • 5th place: 6000 AP
• If you are currently under a win streak penalty, you don't even need to have placed in the Summit competition to use Ygnas's service. The activity points cost to unlock August or Shantotto II in this case is 6000 AP.

Pro Tip!

You can get a free Apex, Pinnacle, or Apogee token (at random) from the Summit Warden (Windurst Waters (S), E-8) once every week.

Unlocking Summit of the Stars

Players must complete the quest Summit of the Stars, which begins with Seer Soromai in Heavens Tower.

• At least one adventurer in the alliance must retrieve three "Offerings" from different Beastmen strongholds.
  • Offerings location changes every in-game hour. They appear pretty much in the same area as LSB3.
    • Clicking the Orc Offering in Monastic Cavern reward you with a Orc Offering
      Orc Offering
      

      This legendary San d'Orian dish is an offering given to Orcs and is used to make Altana's repast.
    • Clicking the Quadav Offering in Qulun Dome reward you with a Quadav Offering
      Quadav Offering
      

      This legendary Bastokan dish is an offering given to the Quadav and is used to make Altana's repast.
    • Clicking the Yagudo Offering in Castle Oztroja reward you with a Yagudo Offering
      Yagudo Offering
      

      This legendary Windurstian dish is an offering given to the Yagudo and is used to make Altana's repast.
• After collecting all three Offerings, adventurers must place them at the three "essences" at the top of Parradamo Tor in Attohwa Chasm to summon Nyx Animus.
  • Only 1 set of offerings is needed per alliance
• The battle against Nyx Animus begins by interacting with Nyx’s Essence.
  • This is an alliance-level battle, so adventurers should be fully prepared before engagement.
  • Expect an hour-long fight.
• Upon defeating Nyx Animus, a vortex appears, allowing players to access Leafallia.

Enemies
Nyx Animus	Spawns non-aggressive (it is unclear whether it will aggro at some point) Cannot be harmed or killed until the three beastmen kings are defeated. Draw in its current target Use classic Dvergr abilities: Bilgestorm Hellsnap, with an increased range of 25' Necrobane for 400~600 dmg Necropurge Thundris Shriek At 50%, summons Odin who will Zantetsuken and disappear.
Necrodrone x5 (BLM)	Spawns after 20, 40, 60, 80 & 100 seconds and target the same player as Nyx Animus Almost always cast Sleepga II immediately upon spawning Use classic Corpselight abilities: Envoutement Silence Seal Cast: Quake, Flood Firaga III, Aeroga III Poisonga Thunder III, Water IV Blaze Spike Frost, Shock, Choke, Drown Bind
King Za'Dha (WHM)	Spawns inert and untargetable for 15 seconds, then ran to a random (?) player All 3 beastmen attacked the same player upon becoming active and targetable Use Benediction Use classic Quadav abilities: Head Butt Howl Ore Toss Shell Bash Shell Guard Cast: Slow, Paralyze, Silence Banishga II, Banishga III (after 75%?), Banish IV Dia III Protect V, Shell V, Blink, Aquaveil Cure VI Blinda, Paralyna
Tzee Xicu (???)	Spawns inert and untargetable for 15 seconds, then ran to a random (?) player All 3 beastmen attacked the same player upon becoming active and targetable Use classic Yagudo abilities: Double Kick Feather Storm Howl Parry Sweep
Lord Bakgodek (MNK/PLD)	Spawns inert and untargetable for 15 seconds, then ran to a random (?) player All 3 beastmen attacked the same player upon becoming active and targetable Has tons of HP! Use Hundred Fists Use classic Orc abilities: Aerial Wheel Arm Block Battle Dance for 300~400 dmg Shoulder Attack Slam Dunk Cast: Flash Protect IV, Shell IV

Leafallia

Upon arrival in Leafallia, players will be greeted by Eryndor, who introduces the available amenities:

• Home Point
• Outpost Warp
• EXP Guide
• EXP Guide (S)
• Domain Traveller
• Nomad Moogle
• Auction House
• Delivery Box
• Synthesis Support

Additionally, the top linkshell each week earns:

• The ability to summon Trust: August and Trust: Shantotto II at no AP cost all week.
• The ability to claim Auction House taxes from Soupox in Leafallia.
  • Only linkshell owners can interact with Soupox.
• Access to the Summit Smelter and extra Summit armor upgrades each week (see Stronghold for more information)

NPC: Mehira

• Informs the player what the current monster family kill objective is.
• Formerly allowed linkshell leaders to change the objective.

NPC: Lanira

• Grants the top linkshell leader the ability to activate a global buff for all adventurers who have completed Summit of the Stars.
• Buffs can be changed once every 4 hours.
• Buffs require a cost paid in Linkshell Points.
• If no buff is chosen, server-wide buffs automatically rotate, but still charge points from the top linkshell (automatic rotations cost 4,000 linkshell points each).
• Players can only benefit from server-wide buffs if they have completed the Summit of the Stars quest.

Available Buffs

Global Buffs from Summit of the Stars
Buff Name	Effect(s)	Cost (Linkshell Points)	Buff Value
Treasure Hunter+	Increases Treasure Hunter effectiveness	10,000	1
Gilfinder+	Increases gil drops	1,500	1
Damage Taken-	Reduces damage taken	7,500	3
Status Resist+	Increases resistance to negative effects	7,500	5
Utsusemi+ (NIN75)	Enhances Utsusemi shadows	7,500	1
Reraise	Grants automatic Reraise I	5,000	1
Synthesis Success+	Increases crafting success rate	10,000	3
Synthesis Skill Gain+	Increases crafting skill gain rate	10,000	5
Synthesis H.Q. Rate+	Increases high-quality crafting chance	10,000	3
Material Loss-	Reduces material loss in crafting	10,000	5
Combat/Magic Skillup+	Increases combat and magic skill-up rate	2,500	5
MP/HP Healing+	Increases MP and HP regeneration	1,500	3
Domain Shard Bonus	Increases Domain Shards in Domain Invasion	25,000	+20%

NPC: Ruspix & Ygnas

Ruspix (Leafallia) and Ygnas (Ru'Lude Gardens, I-10, MH entrance), allow spending Activity Points for prizes. The points spent are taken from the player's personal "wallet" and do not affect the daily cap or the points contributed to the LS.

Ygnas also serves as the CW/UCW Tele NPC to allow access back to Leafallia.

In addition to Ruspix's Activity Points shop, he also sells NM pop items for Linkshell Points. These deduct from your linkshell's current Summit score. Only shellholders, and members granted access via the linkshell management tool on the CatsEyeXI website, can spend Linkshell Points.

Misc
Item	Cost (Activity Points)
Cipher: August	5,000
Cipher: Shantotto II	5,000
Sp. Gobbiedial Key	10,000 only
Reset Dyna. Lockout	7,000

BCNM Orbs
Item	Cost (Activity Points)
Assault Armband	7,000
Cloudy Orb	3,000
Sky Orb	8,000
Star Orb	11,000
Comet Orb	12,500
Moon Orb	12,500
Atropos Orb	15,000
Clotho Orb	15,000
Lachesis Orb	25,000
Themis Orb	50,000

Materials
Item	Cost (Activity Points)
Burdock	400
Eastern Ginger	400
Gargouille Horn	400
Smilodon Hide	400
Yellow Brass Chain	400
Brass Loach	1,000
Bugard Tusk	1,000
Pork Cutlet	1,000
Ruszor Leather	1,000
Brimsand	4,000
Granite	4,000
Moblin Sheepskin	4,000
Moblumin Ingot	4,000
Rhinochimera	4,000

Pop Items (Ruspix only)
Item	Cost (Linkshell Points)
Byakko 2.0 Pop	15,000
Genbu 2.0 Pop	15,000
Seiryu 2.0 Pop	15,000
Suzaku 2.0 Pop	15,000
Savory Shank	25,000
Red Pondweed	25,000
Sweet Tea	25,000
Buffalo Corpse	50,000
Singed Buffalo	50,000
Monkey Wine	50,000