Complete guide to Wondrous Tails in Final Fantasy XIV

Whether you’re looking to level up in Final Fantasy XIV or hoping to get your hands on some exclusive items, you shouldn’t overlook Wondrous Tails. It can seem pretty confusing at first, but once you’re used to it, it’s a quick and easy thing to tick off your weekly checklist.

Wondrous Tails is a combination of incentive to run duties you might not have run for a while, and also a game of luck. For each successfully completed duty, you earn a stamp on a grid and if you’re lucky enough to get four stamps in a line, you get more worthwhile rewards. Completing nine duties guarantees you at least 50% of a level. That’s the TLDR; now let’s get into the details. 

How to unlock Wondrous Tails in Final Fantasy XIV

Before you can unlock Wondrous Tails, you’ll need to have met a few requirements:

• Have access to Idyllshire, which unlocks during the MSQ at level 58
• Be at least level 60 in any Disciple of War or Magic Job

If you’ve met these requirements, head to Idyllshire and pick up the quest called “Keeping Up with the Aliapohs” from the Unctuous Adventurer (X:7.0, Y:5.9). It’s a pretty easy quest; all you need to do is introduce yourself to Khloe Aliapoh. She’s a young Mi’qote who wants to hear all about your adventures, providing you with a journal to complete each week. 

Khloe can be found in the same booth as the Faux Commander, so while you’re here, you may as well unlock Faux Hollows while you’re here.

How to play Wondrous Tails in Final Fantasy XIV

Each week, after the weekly reset happens, you can head to Idyllshire and pick up a new journal from Khloe (X:5.7, Y:6.1), which will then be stored within the Key Items tab of your inventory. Inside, there are two pages. The left page is the list of duties you can complete to earn seals, and the right side is the grid where these seals will be placed. 

You can either complete nine individual listed duties to earn your seals or use your Second Chances to re-run the same duty repeatedly. Each time you complete a listed duty, you’ll earn a seal which will be randomly placed on the grid on the right side page of the journal. 

The very good news is that, as long as the duty is not from the current expansion, you can run any of the duties unsynced. This is especially useful for low level content, such as the level 50 Extreme Trials, allowing you to get seals very quickly. I won’t go into too much detail about the duties that can be included, but the duties always include the following to choose from:

• Three Dungeons of any level
• One level 90 Dungeon
• Two level 50 Extreme Trials
• Two Alliance Raids
• Three Normal Raids
• Five duties which can include any of the following types of content:
  • The Coils of Bahamut
  • Extreme Raids at level 60 or above
  • PvP
  • Treasure Hunt
  • Deep Dungeons

Once you’ve completed nine duties, you’ll be able to hand your journal back into Khloe and claim your prizes and EXP. You have two weeks to complete the nine duties, and if you run out of time, you’ll have to pick up a fresh journal.

How to earn and use Second Chances for Wondrous Tails in Final Fantasy XIV

Once you’ve unlocked Wondrous Tails, you’ll start to earn Second Chances. These are earned every time you complete any duty within the game if one or more members of the party are new to the duty. You don’t need to currently possess a journal in order to earn second chances and you can have a maximum of nine Second Chances at any one time.

Second Chances can be used for two things:

If you’re looking to complete a journal quickly, using Retry will allow you to re-run relatively low-level content, such as the level 50 extreme trials. As you need to complete nine duties to complete a journal and you have nine Second Chances, you can run the same content nine times. 

Shuffle should be used if you’re having remarkably bad luck, as it might offer a chance to get three lines, which means you get the most worthwhile rewards when handing a journal back to Khloe. However, as this costs two points, you may need to run multiple different duties as a result. 

Wondrous Tails rewards in Final Fantasy XIV

Rewards for filling out a journal

If you’ve completed nine duties and collected nine seals, you can hand it back to Khloe to receive your rewards. What you get depends on where your seals fell, with rewards increasing in value depending on how many lines you manage to get.

Bronze Certificate of Commendation reward list

If you receive a Bronze Certificate of Commendation, you can talk to Khloe again and exchange it for prizes. Bronze Certificates can get you a selection of Magicked Prisms and various Cracked Clusters/Crystals, as well as the following minions. These rewards cost one Bronze Certificate each:

• Dress-Up Thancred
• Dress-up Alisaie
• Wind-up Estinien
• Wind-up Khloe
• Wind-up Hien
• Wind -up Zhloe

Silver Certificate of Commendation reward list

If you get at least two lines, you’ll get yourself some Silver Certificates of Commendation. These can be exchanged for the following items:

Gold Certificate of Commendation reward list

If you get lucky and get your hands on a Gold Certificate of Commendation, you’ll be able to exchange it for the most sought-after and most worthwhile rewards. These rewards are not only sought after, but worth a lot when sold on the Marketboard. Each of these rewards only requires one Gold Certificate:

• Ornate Diadochos body gear pieces
• Sabotender de la Luna Whistle
• Magicked Children’s Bed
• Wondrous Lanner Whistle
• Troll Horn
• Calydontis Horn
• Incitatus Whistle
• Ixion Clarion
• Various Cracked Clusters/Crystals