How to Farm Anima Shards

Anima Shards are useful items that can help players earn EXP to level up their preferred Jobs in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins. Read on to learn how to farm Anima Shards to max out Job levels and crush enemies with ease!

Best Missions to Farm Anima Shards

Best Farming Missions
Memories of Wind	The Suffering of Fools	Azure Memories: The Rebel

Memories of Wind

Memories of Wind
Mission Level	40
Anima Shards per Difficulty	・x4 (Story) ・x4 (Action) ・x5 (Hard)

Memories of Water is one of the best missions to replay repeatedly for players looking to farm Anima Shards early on. Across the three original difficulties, players can earn up to 4, 4, and 5 Anima Shards per playthrough respectively.

What's great about this mission is that it can be accessed early on in the game, leaving players with enough time to make use of the shards before they unlock higher tier versions of Jobs they have come to favor.

Memories of Water Walkthrough and Rewards

The Suffering of Fools

The Suffering of Fools
Mission Level	112
Anima Shards per Difficulty	・x7 (Story) ・x7 (Action) ・x9 (Hard)

The Suffering of Fools can be unlocked towards the latter end of the game's mid-way point. It offers some of the highest Anima Shard rewards on the game's base difficulties, making it a good prospect for farming when it comes to levelling up Advanced or Expert Jobs.

The Suffering of Fools Walkthrough and Rewards

Aure Memories: The Rebel

Azure Memories: The Rebel
Mission Level	92
Anima Shards per Difficulty	・x9 (Story) ・x10 (Action) ・x11 (Hard)

Azure Memories: The Rebel is regarded as being the best mission that players can farm Anima Shards in. Unlocked by compelting the Main Mission Memories of Water, this Side Mission is largely a fast and easy way of earning a large amount of Shards for use, due to the fact that it's primary objective can be completed in quick 5 to 10 minute bursts if players ignore the enemies in its level.

This is substantially faster than re-playing any of the Main Missions, as Side Missions generally tackle a several short areas in a level that make it easy for players to speed through with ease.

Azure Memories: The Rebel Walkthrough and How To Unlock

How to Farm Anima Shards

Anima Shards Farming Tips
Earn From Level Progression Defeat Optional Enemies Join Multiplayer Games

Earn From Level Progression

Anima Shards are largely deposited into your inventory when moving through an area. Certain sections of a level will provide the player with an Anima Shard – players can replay levels that they've finished before to earn Anima Shards whenever they wish by simply progressing through the level as normal.

Anima Shards can also be a listed reward for completing a Mission. Completing the Mission will yield the amount listed to the player. Note that you keep all loot even when abandoning a Mission, however you will miss out on the end rewards, so in most cases it's more efficient to finish the Mission to maximize the number of Anima Shards in the shortest time possible.

Defeat Optional Enemies

In levels that players unlock, there will be side paths, rooms, or even corridors that contain optional enemies that players can then choose to engage. In particular, Tonberries can drop Anima Shards if players can successfully defeat them – turning down the difficulty during farming sessions can help to make the farming process run quicker.

Optional enemies are usually found pretty late in any given level, so unfortunately defeating them for Anima Shards and selecting Abandon Mission to reset the level isn't very time efficient considering you would miss out on any Anima Shards from Mission rewards.

Join Multiplayer Games

Joining Multiplayer games as the guest in a session will also help players earn more Anima Shards compared to normal, singleplayer play.

We are currently investigating drop rates for Anima Shards during multiplayer. Check back here for more details!

Anima Shard Uses

Item Used to Gain EXP for Jobs

The main use of an Anima Shard is to provide players with an expedient way of earning EXP with little effort. Each Anima Shard provides 4000 EXP to the player when used.

Depending on the amount of EXP needed to level up a Job, this is more than enough to level up a Job at least once, with the usefulness of Anima Shards gradually lessening the more a player levels up a Job which increases the amount of EXP required to bring it a level higher.

How to Level Up Jobs Fast

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