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Final Fantasy 16 Flametongue Sword Blackthorne Closeup
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How to get Flametongue sword in Final Fantasy 16

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As you journey throughout the land of Valisthea in Final Fantasy 16, you’ll come across a variety of monsters and soldiers, all equipped with powerful gear. It’s important that you be able to counter their attacks with fierce strikes of your own, and doing so requires you to acquire the best available weapons. Along those lines, here is our guide telling you how to get the Flametongue sword in Final Fantasy 16.

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Final Fantasy 16 – how to get the Flametongue sword

The Flametongue sword is a powerful weapon you can access around the time you get a third of the way through the story campaign. You get the Flametongue sword from Blackthorne at the Black Hammer. He can only craft it after you progress far enough in the campaign to access the recipe. You also need to provide the following materials:

  • Meteorite x1
  • Stormcry Sword x1
  • Fire Shard x1

As you collect the above items on your journey, make sure to keep them on hand for when the time to get the Flametongue sword arrives.

Final Fantasy 16 Flametongue Sword Meteorite And Wind Shard Drop After Awakening Mission

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Meteorite is a relatively rare crafting material you find at various points in the game. The boss at the end of the Headwind mission dropped two of them when I fought her, as did the boss a couple of missions later. Meteorite has a lot of uses, but make sure to keep at least one in your inventory.

The recipe to craft the Stormcry Sword becomes available once you clear the Awakening mission. It requires the Wind Shard, which you acquire by defeating Garuda.

To acquire the Fire Shard, defeat Ifrit at the end of Buried Memories. By then, you should have the materials but not the recipe. Clear the 24th campaign mission, Righting Wrongs, and you gain the recipe so you can finally get the Flametongue sword.

Final Fantasy 16 is available on the PlayStation 5.


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Jason Venter
Jason Venter is a contributing writer for PC Invasion since 2022 who can trace his love for video games back to the Apple IIe port of Mario Bros. in the late 80s. He remains a diehard Nintendo fan to this day and loves JRPGs, adventure games, and platformers in particular, but he still plays games in most genres and on most hardware. After founding indie gaming site HonestGamers in 1998, he served as an editor at Hardcore Gamer Magazine during its entire print run. He has since freelanced for a variety of leading sites including IGN, GameSpot, and Polygon. These days, he spends most of his time writing game guides and entertaining readers with his fantasy novels.