Where does Ult Awakening Spirit Gem drop?

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Where does Ult Awakening (increase Fuurinkazan Drive duration) Spirit Gem drop?

I don't have many of them. It's not from any of the repeatable shrine missions handed out in NinChat, as far as I can tell. I've been grinding them a lot for the guaranteed rare gem. I'm also pretty sure they don't drop from any regular Yokai.

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Well I've spent some time with drop boosters in all the 'world map' locations with no luck. Plenty of other gems, not this one. On some maps the enemies don't respawn once cleared out, but most of them have infinitely spawning enemies as per most Neptunia games. I'll have to go back through the shrine missions and see if I can find them there.

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Level 2 version drops from Seal! Cursed Skulls! I only got 1 from a run, so that's pretty rare.

This is a relatively early shrine mission that is extremely outside the normal difficulty curve for the game. When I first did it I ended up assuming that 'cursed', combined with the flavour text saying to dodge enemies, meant that they were immortal and you just had to run through the level and trigger the objectives without killing enemies.

I also got 1 level 5 Shinobi EX gem, which is nice but there are much easier ways to get multiples of that.

I'll run it again and see if I can get more than 1 in a run.

Also, worth noting that it does not drop from 'Seal! Cursed Skulls ~Report Canyon~' which is an easier mission in general and drops Shinobi EX (level 4 IIRC). I ran that mission a lot trying to farm Shinobi and never got a Ult Awakening from there even though they look like the same enemies.

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Doh - it drops from the Trial of Mind... outside of that it is vary rare, even with a lot of drop chance boost.

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WRT the Trial of mind, you get a level 5 from each of the first levels and a level 10 from the last level. But a level 5 can also drops from the loot doggos in the first level. To get through the first level of Trial of mind, you just have to run past the skulls since they will almost one-shot you if you try to take them on. I'd recommend using ranged weapons to take out the loot doggos if you think it is worth the risk, but try not to agro the other enemies. You want to run/dodge past as many enemies as you can, and just grab the objective packages. It's not very hard once you figure that out.

After that level 2 and 3 of trial of mind are not hard if you are appropriately levelled with a decent built. I'd recommend ranged weapons and don't forget your Green F-drive gives you increased ranged weapon recharge and healing, which is handy since you can't use items.

It's called 'trial of mind' and really it's the puzzle of how to do it that is not immediately obvious. I guess I spoiled that but I figure if you are reading this you just want to know how to do it.

I could not find anything on the web about getting this gem, so even though I'm talking to myself, I figure somebody might find it in the future who had the same questions I had.

As far as getting this gem in the early game, it is such a low drop chance from a level that is such a pain to do, that I would not even consider it as viable. Since you can eventually reliably farm level 10s without too much trouble once you know how, it's a great option for an end-game build.