With Final Fantasy 16, you won't ever run out of things to do. Between the boss battles, side quests, main story, crafting, and more, you're guaranteed to spend hours on this game. Even when you finish the story, you can go back and replay the game with various difficulties.
You may be wondering how you could go about getting the sought-after Ultima Weapon in the game. As far as swords go for Clive, this one is the most powerful. The bad news is you won't be able to attain it during your first playthrough. However, you can prepare to get it during your first playthrough.
Updated by Isabella Risoni on July 2, 2023: Final Fantasy 16 gives you endless hours of quests, side quests, upgrades, and more throughout the game. In fact, the longer the game is out, the more we're finding out about the game, this includes more information about the Ultima Weapon. We've updated this article to include a chart listing the materials needed for the Ultima Weapon as well as how to get the materials. The images were updated as well to give a more accurate depiction of what this article is about. The related and internal links were also updated to more recently relevant links.
About Ultima Weapon
You can only get the Ultima Weapon once you complete the main story. This is due to the fact that Ultima Weapon is only attainable in the hidden hardest difficulty in the settings, New Game Plus (NG+). New Game Plus will only be unlocked once you complete every main story mission in the game. Once you begin New Game Plus, there will be a few changes to the gameplay such as the level cap raising to 100 and enemy spawns being different. You will not be able to change the difficulty back to Story Focused or Action Focused once you begin a NG+ game in Final Fantasy Mode, so acquiring Ultima Weapon will be crucial to survive the increase difficulty.
Ultima Weapon is a bit of an iconic weapon in the Final Fantasy series, as it has appeared in most of the Final Fantasy games. It is very often one of the most powerful weapons in the games, as is the case here in Final Fantasy 16.
How To Craft Ultima Weapon
Players will be required to craft the weapon (it won't just be given to you), and while there are only 3 items total, some may take some time to obtain which will take patience on your part. When you begin NG+ mode, you will be notified that the Ultima Weapon has been added to the crafting station. However, you won't be able to make it until just before the game's final boss.
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Materials |
How and Where |
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The Gotterdammerung Reforged |
Blueprint obtained through the Blacksmith Blues side quest, must play Blacksmith Blues again in NG+. |
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Utterance of Creation |
Automatically given to you at the beginning of NG+. |
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Everdark Reforged |
Obtained from final Eikon upgrade for your base sword throughout the game and will be given to you after you defeat Odin. |
Once you have all of these components, you can head over to Blackthorne and craft this weapon. While the Gotterdammerung Reforged has a 625/625 value, the Ultima weapon will have a 700/700 value making it probably the most powerful weapon in the game. Unfortunately you will have only a few things you can do with this weapon. A lot of the Arete Stone Challenges won't allow you to use it, so the final boss of the game will be the only real thing it'll be useful for.
Currently, there's no word whether the developers plan on adding DLC or new monsters to the game that will allow you to utilize this sword more, however anything is possible. You could always replay NG+ with the Ultima Sword to get a chance to use it more.
Everything you've completed in the New Game will also have to be completed in New Game Plus as all rewards have been updated to be exclusive to update equipment.