November 2025: Post Your AMAN Trove Drops

This reminds of me of that guy who shows up to Valkurm dunes XP parties in all Lizard +1 gear ...and then to Qufim Island in Beetle+1 gear.

Does anyone else remember the period of 3 months where had Raetic+1 weapons in existence?

Personally, I try to invest my FFXI play time into things that SE won't or can't invalidate too quickly. I guess the FFXI progression treadmill keeps moving and one way or another, makes fools of us all.

why wouldn't you try to be the best you can be at whatever it is that you do?

y'all are weird sometimes

cannot forget the absurd amount of money i paid for a scorpion harness +1 for those sata WS numbers!

Sorry if I missed it and it may still be too soon to tell, but has anyone seen the prismatic chest show up on entry yet?

I guess master rank 9 (possibly/probably 10) will be the forbidden dps kick only veterans will have, considering you should have an account with 1000days + on it.

Yeah, I had that on one of mine; Mars orb, impossible to gauge thud, sapphire crystal dropped.

Mars, prismatic on entry, ITG, Gyve Doublet

December Trove shaping up to be a "throw your computer out the window" month.

This is incredible.

I got 3 Loud Thuds and 2 ITG in a single Venus orb. It was a crappy pool, but still:

1x Loud Thuds were on the floor
2x ITG Thuds were on the floor.
9th coffer converted to gold (Loud Thud #2)
Terminal coffer was Loud Thud #3.




conclusion: I would infer from this that the most likely maximum ITG result is one of the following:

3 ITG coffers, (2 on the floor + rainbow conversion).
3 ITG coffers, (2 on the floor + Terminal coffer)
3 ITG coffers, (1 on the floor + 1 rainbow conversion + 1 Terminal).
4 ITG coffers, (2 on the floor + 1 rainbow + 1 ITG coffer).

I'm less inclined to believe 4 is possible, but given that 2 LTs appeared instead ITG for rainbow conversion and Terminal, I had to write it down here.

Edit: I went in with full intention to try to kill the mimic, too. Very weird.

Also, if anyone cares the messages can end with different punctuation. I have no idea what they mean unfortunately:

I've been taking some time off FF11 for a couple months, popping on just here and there, so can someone clarify for me...

Are we all ITG or die now?

Or still opening on LT?

I've been LT or die for years, have pretty much everything it offers save 1 omen body and, of course, the $$ items which are nice.

So consensus? ITG or die?

Edit: Oh yeah, and Venus orbs instead of Mars now too? I did a few months of only Venus a while back and saw little difference. Worth it now?

ITG is where all the rare goodies are, so yes

I did some runs yesterday and didn't have a huge amount of luck - only got one ITG and it was just a pulse weapon. I think like most things there's not a right answer and there are differing views of "optimum" based on where you are in the game. Based on the clear times there are obviously some folks that don't like *** around and just run in and hit the center chest, which I find odd and fascinating, but not inherently the wrong way to do it.

I wonder if those folks aren't statistically correct...100% chance of win but low, but not zero, chance of LT ILG? Maybe on a longer timeline that strat may be the correct one?

Of course, you need to work out all other statistical possibilities and stats is for nerds.

And, no, I do not believe there is only 1 mimic per run. Based on my lifetime of runs, I've accurately surmised that, on 99% of runs, there are 9-10 mimics per run....

Because, if I'm wrong, then the 1/1 rate I hit on every mule, every month, every orb? Scientists should stick me in an underground lab and study my personal probability field cause I've got some serious
X-Files s>*t going on.

To be honest, I've done over 3,000 troves and my feeling that is that the mimic appearance is just misdirection for us, the players.

I think SE has a distribution table for Trove outcomes, just like item drops have Very Common, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Super Rare and Ultra Rare (7). I think there are similar (7) or so possible outcomes and those 7 outcomes occur after the first 3 troves are picked (where we are given a hint based on a player "intuition" message). As of November 2025, the intuition message does give us some clues as to whether there is a Loud thud or ITG Thud on the floor...but this has a new feature of occasionally being incorrect or misleading. (i.e. we beat the trove, but didn't get the implied outcome. Also, the punctuation of the hint message changes, ending in ".", "?" or "!").

To be clear, I think that:

1. Your first 3 chest choices are truly random.
   

2. The remaining 7 chests follow a random distribution with their own percentages accordingly, just like items have their own distributions (when TH is concerned. See here: Treasure Hunter).
   

3. You get a hint after this, but that's it. (The hint is not guaranteed to be true unfortunately).

Now, for SE to add some additional misdirection, we can have 1-2 rainbow chests spawn at the start. See source here from earlier this year: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/52655/the-aman-trove-bc/71/#3734646

Edit: Do I think any more than 2 rainbow chests is possible even after the ITG update? I vote No...but I certainly think SE wants us to believe it is possible. More misdirection! Isn't this fun? :)

Oh sure, it's the only way to "win" - though it'd be funny for SE to eliminate that by giving the center chest a chance of being the mimic if none of the other chests are open... which, maybe they already do - I'd never know!

My pet theory is that there's only one mimic and every time you open a chest it re-rolls the distribution of the mimic (which would include it staying exactly where it was). I don't think there's any evidence for this or any way to test for it, that's why it's a pet theory.

I totally discount any of the hints because they're unreliable.

I'm a fan of the added sound effect (and the fact that you can hear it from a character outside the arena if you're in the same party). I hope they keep developing it with things like fireworks going off and whatnot. Maybe have an elemental spawn from one and replenish or eat a chest. Lots of fertile ground if they have a little imagination.

Same! I love the sound effects. When Troves first came out, I joked with some LS mates that one of the chests should twitch or twinkle slightly, just to mess with us, haha.

Mars Orb run I got a Null loop from an ITG thud and also got 5mm gil. The run before that was more typical for me (I only got noise / thuds until I got the thwack).

Glad you guys like it. I felt different lol. The sound effects were cheesy to me, like they could have sounded a bit more interesting.

Either you're not accustomed to hearing as many ITG thuds as we are, or maybe you need a new headset. ;)

I agree that the sounds could have been better, but this is still a godsend for those of us who are blind or low vision. Easy to grant a pass here.

Ever since the November update I've pulled over 1,3 billion Gil from the Gobbie Box, with the two Murky Cores being a wild card, as there have been no sales on AH yet and I have no idea what they might be worth at this time.

Besides what's shown I also got a Hoxne Ring which I dont have a screenshot of, because honestly, I didnt notice it at first, only found a few days later in the inventory of one of my mules.

I had around 1000 SP Gobbie Dial Keys to trade, of which I did most during the free campaign that started just recently.

That being said, regarding the thread title: Trove only gives me death or garbage.

Venus Orb just now

Noise > ITG > Thud (Terminal Coffer)

Null Masque
Pursuer's Cuffs
Worn sack of duskorb stones +2

Another pet theory I've been kicking around since SE announced how the Limbus chests works... what if the zone you enter the aman trove bc mattered in some way? Mimic chance, ITG chance, changing the weights of items in pools, etc. Wouldn't have considered this a remote possibility before Limbus, but now it's on the table, I guess.

I got a Malignance Pole off of a Mars Orb Loud Thud

So either the above list is incorrect or maybe the pole is a higher drop rate item that didn't make the ITG Thud list.

Mars Orb:
noise (heavy sound)
thud (heavy sound)
loud thud (heavy sound)
noise (heavy sound)
loud thud
loud thud (on exit)

Spoils:
Cyan Coral (loud thud)
Malignance Pole (loud thud)
Kyrene's earring (loud thud)
Marquetry staff (thud)
Hahava's mail (noise)
Sif's lock (noise)


same sequence every run. all chests were brown color

Multiple people posted Malignance armor in ITG, so yes its likely that Malignance Pole is a LT drop.

Another thing to note is how the ITG intuition prompt might lend to this. Unless the ITG chest bounces constantly, getting an “your intuition was wrong” leads me to believe that things are pre-placed when you enter. But if this were the case I’m sure there would be people using cheats to figure out what chest is what.

And, tinfoil hat me constantly seeing the same orb buyers hitting home runs thinks there already might be.

*tinfoil hat off*

You're probably right. I think things are pre-placed too ...but only discernable server side.

In my case, the best occurrence (which is also my rarest), is when you have 1 ITG on the floor opened already and 3 chests remaining. You have a 2/3rd chance of witnessing chest 9 convert to rainbow or prism, followed by a terminal coffer, which can also be ITG. However, post-12/10 update, I encountered this situation again but with the added possibility of 2 ITGs being on the floor. So, this means that 3 ITGs are 100% possible, and 4 ITGs are theoretically possible (2 ITGs on the floor, last chest converts to rainbow for ITG#3, and finally, the terminal coffer returns ITG#4.)

I am jealous you've been able to track to that conclusion x.x.

I've been tracking my trove luck for the past 8 months, and it's... not great. Many tinfoil meltdowns.