Final Fantasy 16’s combat system relies heavily on Ability Points or AP, a currency that you gain through quests and combat encounters. With the help of this Final Fantasy 16 Ability Point farming guide, we’ll show you how to get as many points as you need to master every single Eikonic Feat and ability available in the game.
This method requires you to be at a certain point in the main story; while it is technically possible to replay the stage used in this method via the Stage Replay function, the rates aren’t nearly as efficient. Note that this method involves a location that’s fairly late in the game, so if you’d rather not be spoiled by that, consider checking out our other FF16 guides first.
Final Fantasy 16 Ability Point Farming Guide
The following method comes from a YouTuber named Primalliquid, who explained the process of how to efficiently farm Ability Points in a video. This method can net you over 50,000 Ability Points per hour, according to Primalliquid, and with the game requiring just under 120,000 AP to fully master all abilities, you can get all the Ability Points you need in just a few hours.
Step 1: Prepare Your Abilities and Gear
This step isn’t really required per se, but if you want to farm efficiently and quickly, then you’ll definitely want to choose an efficient ability loadout. As you’ll earn more ability points through farming, you can unlock, upgrade, and master more abilities to even further optimize your farming speed.
In general, you’ll want to have a decent mix of AoE damage and single-target damage, as you’ll be farming one miniboss and dozens of regular enemies. Some abilities that you’ll definitely want to bring along include Flames of Rebirth due to its range and damage, as well as Ignition to deal with any stragglers. Judgment Bolt is also useful for taking down the miniboss a lot quicker. Earthen Fury, Gigaflare, and Windup are also good options.
You’ll also want to make sure you’re equipped with the right gear. Aside from having the best possible sword and armor, you’ll also want to choose specific accessories to further optimize your farming. The main accessory you want will be “The Wages of Warcraft,” which boosts your Ability Point gain from normal encounters by 20%. Other accessories, such as those that boost gil or EXP, are also useful, but you can always use combat accessories instead as you’re mainly farming Ability Points anyway.
Step 2: Reach the “Evenfall” Quest
To be able to start farming Ability Points efficiently, you’ll first need to reach a certain point in FF16’s story. To avoid any unnecessary spoilers, simply play the game until you reach the “Evenfall” quest. Don’t worry, you won’t miss it, as the quest title appears in front of your screen as soon as the dungeon begins.
Step 3: Slay the Enemies
The dungeon in the Evenfall quest provides over 1000 total Ability Points from the first three groups of enemies. You can either take down each group individually or group them all together in the area of the third group before using your abilities to take them all down at once. I personally preferred gathering the enemies together first, using Ignition on the first group of enemies to cover ground faster while also dealing damage. You don’t have to wait too long for the enemies from the other groups to catch up; the third group of enemies will call for reinforcements once they’re taken down, so you’ll need to use multiple abilities to clear them all, anyway.
Step 4: Leave and Repeat
Once you finish taking down the three groups of enemies (including the reinforcements), you’ll want to travel to any Obelisk on the map. This will warn you that your progress in the dungeon will be lost, but don’t worry; this only applies to dungeon progress, not the Ability Points that you’ve earned.
After fast traveling to an Obelisk, you can then travel back to the location of the quest, and you’ll be put back at the start of the dungeon. Simply slay all the required enemies again, leave the dungeon, and repeat.
And that’s about it! If you’re interested, check out our FF16 review here. Enjoy grinding out those Ability Points!
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