The Aurum Vale

The Aurum Vale

Level

47 (Sync: 49)

Difficulty

Normal

Party size

Light Party
4 man • 1 1 2

Unsyncing

Allowed

Time limit

90 minutes

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Leveling

Req. quest

Going for Gold

Entrance

Coerthas Central Highlands (X:14, Y:35)

Modes

Explorer

Patch

2.0

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Soon after its discovery, miners from across the realm flocked to the Aurum Vale, driven by rumors that deep within lay endless veins of mythril. What they found instead was gold, but not the sort which would make them rich. Believing the substance precious aurum, miners unknowingly stumbled into deep pools of glowing venom thereafter known as goldbile. Not only did the liquid burn their skin, but the noisome fumes given off by the foul ooze cooked their lungs when inhaled, bringing on a quick, yet excruciating death. These truths, however, have done little to prevent new miners from braving the suffocating shafts, now even more driven to find what those who entered before could not.

— In-game description

The Aurum Vale is a level 47 dungeon introduced in patch 2.0.

Objectives

1. Breach the Lock.
2. Defeat the morbol bed keeper.
3. Clear the Coincounter's Chest.
4. Defeat the morbol bed keepers.

Enemies

Name Drops Coincounter   Glower Eftstool Goldvine Lily of the Vale Locksmith Miser's Mistress   Bad Breath

Name Drops Nether Nix Poisoned Peasant Vale Banemite Vale Bat Vale Diremite Vale Wasp

The first room of enemies can be problematic for inexperienced parties. There are several patrolling enemies that can quickly overwhelm the party if too many are engaged. The Nether Nixes in particular will use   Sticky Tongue to yank the first person it sees to its location, aggroing many enemies along the way. The party should "hug" the left wall and fight as few enemies as possible until they reach the first boss room.

Bosses

The Aurum Vale Guide

Note that the yellow liquid does damage-over-time to players standing in them, represented by the Goldbile debuff.

Locksmith

Locksmith is the first boss of The Aurum Vale - this gigantic Ochu has several high damage mechanics that will test the capabilities of the parties' healers.

Morbol Fruit will grow along the sides of the arena. Locksmith will cast a Gold Lung debuff on the party that cannot be cleansed by   Esuna. To remove the debuff, players will need to click on the Morbol Fruit to interact with the item and remove the debuff. Players should avoid having more than 2 stacks of Gold Lung, as it will increase damage taken.

After interacting with a fruit, it will disappear. The Morbol Fruits respawn over time.

Abilities

• Hundred Lashings is a melee attack that deals moderate to high amount of damage.
• Gold Rush is an instant ability that places a damage over time debuff named Gold Lung on all players. This effect stacks. The debuff can be removed by consuming a Morbol Fruit.
• Gold Dust is a circular AoE spell that appears under a random player. It deals moderate damage to all players hit.

Tank Mechanics

In order to click on the Morbol Fruit to remove the debuff stacks, tanks may have to stun Locksmith to avoid being interrupted.

Coincounter

Coincounter is a giant cyclops that has powerful front AoE attacks, swipe cleave abilities, and a room-wide AoE lightning mechanic.

• As of Patch 5.3 orange ground indicators have been added to all of the boss' AoEs. However, there are later occurrences of this same type of boss that remain un-telegraphed, so learning the visual tells is still useful and encouraged.

All non-tank players should stay away from the front of the boss at all times- Coincounter has 2 types of 100-Tonze Swipe cleaves:

• The first type can be identified when he holds his mace with only 1 of his hands. This is a frontal cone AoE attack.
• The second type can be identified when he holds his mace with 2 of his hands. This is a circular AoE attack that does an enormous amount of damage to all targets around him.

100-Tonze swipe attack can be stunned or interrupted.

At about half HP, Coincounter will start using Eye of the Beholder, a long range, frontal cone, AoE spell. Ranged damage dealers and healers should spread apart and avoid his   Glower and Eye of the Beholder abilities if possible.

Abilities

• 10-Tonze Swipe is an instant frontal AoE attack that does moderate amount of damage.
• 100-Tonze Swipe (1 Hand) is a frontal cone AoE attack that does a large amount of damage to all targets hit.
• 100-Tonze Swing (2 Hand) is a circular AoE attack that does extremely large amount of damage to all targets close to the Cyclops.
•   Glower is a laser fired from the eye of Coincounter onto a random player. The player will take moderate amount of damage and become inflicted with the debuff Paralysis.
• Eye of the Beholder is a partial donut AoE spell that deals a moderate amount of damage and inflicts a DoT named Electrocution. Coincounter will face a random player and use the emote "The Coincounter takes a moment to reconsider..." before using this spell. This C-shaped attack has safe spots behind the boss and close in.

100-Tonze Swipe, 100-Tonze Swing and Eye of the Beholder can be interrupted with stuns.

Miser's Mistress

Miser's Mistress is the final boss of The Aurum Vale. This Morbol boss has powerful frontal AoE attacks and should be faced away from all non-tank players. The debuffs from   Bad Breath could be deadly.

Similar to Locksmith, there are objects named Morbol Fruit around the boss room. Players can consume the fruit to remove all the stacks of the debuff Burrs, which deals increasing damage over time with each additional stack. Players should consume the fruit at 2-3 Burrs stacks, and will typically need to alternate between two separate fruits to achieve this (there are 8 total fruit spawns in the room). Note that the fruits can also remove the debuffs from Bad Breath, so if a player gets hit by this attack, they should quickly use a fruit to avoid the debilitating and possibly deadly effects of the slew of debuffs it inflicts.

Adds

At half HP, Miser's Mistress will spawn 5 strange Morbol Fruits that must be destroyed immediately. Use a physical ranged or caster limit break if needed. Any fruits that hatch will turn into Morbol Seedlings that will add Burr debuff stacks with every attack. If any seedlings hatch, this could easily wipe the group.

Abilities

•   Bad Breath is a frontal cone AoE spell that inflicts the debuffs Paralysis, Silence, Poison, Blind, Slow, Heavy, and HP Penalty to all targets hit.

• If the healer gets hit by   Bad Breath, it can very quickly lead to a wipe. Healers and ranged DPS should stay far away from the boss.   Esuna can be used to remove the   Bad Breath debuffs, but this will only remove one status effect at a time, and if the healer is the one that was hit, the Silence effect will prevent using Esuna anyway. Players should use the Morbol Fruit to remove all the effects at once if they are hit with   Bad Breath.

• Vine Probe is a frontal column AoE attack that deals a moderate amount of damage to all targets hit.
• Hooked Burrs is an ability that deals a small amount of damage and adds one stack of Burrs on a random player.
• Burr Burrow is an ability that inflicts the player with the debuff Burrs and deals small amount of damage per stack of Burrs already on the player. If a player has enough Burr stacks, this can do a considerable amount of damage. Use the Morbol Fruit that grow on the outside of the arena to cleanse the debuff stacks, as it cannot be cleansed with Esuna.

Loot

See also: Aurum Weapons, Aurum Armor and Aurum Accessories

Locksmith

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Aetherial Amber Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Amber Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Black Pearl Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Rubellite Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Rubellite Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Spinel Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Spinel Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Tortoiseshell Armillae	Bracelets	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Tourmaline Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Tourmaline Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Turquoise Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Turquoise Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Zircon Earrings	Earrings	49	DAetherial	1
Aetherial Zircon Ring	Ring	49	DAetherial	1
Aurum Armguards	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Celata	Head	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Dress Gloves	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Gauntlets	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Pot Helm	Head	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Temple Chain	Head	49	BGreen	1

Coincounter

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Aurum Brais	Legs	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Chasuble	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Cuirass	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Jacket	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Smalls	Legs	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Trousers	Legs	49	BGreen	1

Miser's Mistress

•   Morbol Card (Drops at a fixed rate)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Astaroth Cane	Two-handed Conjurer's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Boots	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Leg Guards	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Sabatons	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Balisarde	Dark Knight's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Black Mage's Verdant Arms (Lv. 47)	Other	N/A	BGreen	1
Bloody Murder	Machinist's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Canopus Bill	Marauder's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Canopus Guisarme	Lancer's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Canopus Stilettos	Rogue's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Miser's Folly Orchestrion Roll	Orchestrion Roll	N/A	ABasic	1
Paladin's Templar Arms (Lv. 47)	Other	N/A	BGreen	1
Pupil's Book of Mythril	Arcanist's Grimoire	49	BGreen	1
Vega	Astrologian's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Verdant Hora	Pugilist's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Verdant Shortbow	Archer's Arm	49	BGreen	1

Treasure Coffers

Treasure Coffer 1 (X: 10.3 Y: 8.6)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Aurum Sabatons	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Leg Guards	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Boots	Feet	49	BGreen	1
Morbol Seedling	Minion	N/A	ABasic	1

Treasure Coffer 2 (X: 8.9 Y: 9.0)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Aurum Celata	Head	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Pot Helm	Head	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Temple Chain	Head	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Gauntlets	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Armguards	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Dress Gloves	Hands	49	BGreen	1
Mossy Horn	Material	N/A	ABasic	1

Treasure Coffer 3 (X: 7.0 Y: 7.0)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Aurum Cuirass	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Jacket	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Chasuble	Body	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Trousers	Legs	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Brais	Legs	49	BGreen	1
Aurum Smalls	Legs	49	BGreen	1
Dodore Wing	Material	N/A	ABasic	1-2
Carnivorous Seedling	Material	N/A	ABasic	1

Treasure Coffer 4 (X: 4.5 Y: 8.9)

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Paladin's Templar Arms (Lv. 47)	Other	N/A	BGreen	1
Canopus Bill	Marauder's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Balisarde	Dark Knight's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Canopus Guisarme	Lancer's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Verdant Hora	Pugilist's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Canopus Stilettos	Rogue's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Verdant Shortbow	Archer's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Bloody Murder	Machinist's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Black Mage's Verdant Arms (Lv. 47)	Other	N/A	BGreen	1
Pupil's Book of Mythril	Arcanist's Grimoire	49	BGreen	1
Astaroth Cane	Two-handed Conjurer's Arm	49	BGreen	1
Vega	Astrologian's Arm	49	BGreen	1

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
Mapping the Realm: Aurum Vale	10	Discover every location within the Aurum Vale.	-	2.0

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Lore

See also: The Harbor Herald#The Harbor Herald 06 - Garleans in the Vale

Drowning In Gold

One of the many caverns found in the Coerthas central highlands, known for its glowing pools that give off a golden mist. Though beautiful to behold, the liquid is in fact a lethal seepage called goldbile—the product of a union between sulphur and mythril ore, quickened in groundwater. Drawn, by the mesmerizing scenery or the promise of precious aurum, many have unwittingly stumbled into these pools only to have the liquid burn their skin and the noisome fumes cook their lungs. As if such a place were not sufficiently perilous, prolonged exposure to the fumes wrought an adverse change to the wildlife within, rendering it too dangerous to be left unchecked. Thus did the Holy See of Ishgard petition the three allied city-states to undertake a purge of the Vale in return for the supply of bat- tle-trained chocobos, and the Grand Companies each dispatch a unit of adventurers to see to the task.

The Coincounter

Making its lair in the Aurum Vale, this hulking cyclops attacks all who enter its territory, giving the impression of a watchdog jealously guard ing a golden hoard. For its antics, adventurers have named it the Coincounter.

The Miser's Mistress

If the miser is avaricious, then his mistress is avarice itself. Lording over all in the Aurum Vale, this enormous morbol uses its ever-searching tendrils to seize prey in a rapacious embrace before devouring it whole. While the species is known for spewing forth virulent gas, that which is produced by this specimen is surpassingly potent, an effect of its toxic environment.

Pleasing to behold but excruciating to breathe within, what could otherwise be a scenic wonder to attract visitors is marred by the presence of noisome fumes. The peculiar ore known as vale bubo, born of the mingling between mythril and sulphur, is a subject of interest for geological enthusiasts.

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