Spharai

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Statistics Spharai (Hand-to-Hand) All Races DMG: +23 Delay: +86 Attack +20 Enhances "Counter" effect "Final Heaven" Lv. 75 MNK Damage Per Second: +4.88* TP Per Hit: +0.6%* *Base delay for Hand-to-Hand is assumed to be 480. Damage Per Second: 17.40~18.03 (Ranging from 276 (natural cap) to 292 (merited cap) H2H skill) TP Per Hit: 5.3% per punch, 10.6% combined Enhances "Counter" effect: Counter +10 Hidden Effect Attacks will occasionally do 3 times normal damage.	Other Uses Resale Price: Cannot be sold to NPCs.
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes None
Desynthesis Recipe None	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Cannot be auctioned, traded, or bazaared.

Quest

• Relic Knuckles: Spharai
  

Notes

• Obtaining this weapon is a very hard and tedious quest. It will require an amount of devotion and sacrifice that most can not meet. The following coins are required, per stage, to complete this weapon, starting from stage 2 to stage 5(final product).

• • Stage 2: 4 - One Hundred Byne Bill
  • Stage 3: 14 - Montiont Silverpiece
  • Stage 4: 61 - Lungo-Nango Jadeshell
  • Stage 5: 1 - Ten Thousand Byne Bill

• This weapon requires a total of 17,900 coins from dynamis.

• This is an estimation of the cost.

-Assume that each individual 1 byne bill costs 7k, and both of the individual whiteshells, and bronzepieces cost 10k.

This weapon will cost you 145,000,000.

-If you assume that the 1 bynes are 7k and the whiteshells and bronzepieces are 12k.

This weapon will cost you 160,000,000.

Historical Background

Sphairai (Spharai is a misspelling) was a dangerous type of Caestus which was made of several thin strips of leather with cutting blades inserted in them which were wrapped around. This allowed each punch to cut up an opponent and even a glancing blow would deal damage. Sphairai were used in Pankration (sport in the ancient world considered a combination of boxing and wrestling - Pankration means "all-strength" or "all-power"). Sphairai means "spheres" and derives from the thick rings of leather that would be wrapped around the fist.