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You can customize weapons to have the Distill Mana auto-ability after unlocking the feature when entering Guadosalam for the first time. Using a weapon with the Distill Mana ability will force an enemy to drop Mana Spheres instead of the type of sphere it would normally drop when defeated.
To customize a weapon with Distill Mana, you’ll need a weapon with a blank ability slot and 2 Mana Spheres. The weapon’s name may change after adding the ability to it.
Where To Get Mana Spheres
Ice Flan in Lake Macalania
You’ll find yourself with a steady supply of Mana Spheres near the start of the game. But this may change as soon as you start customizing equipment and Aeon abilities.
However, there are plenty of fiends across Spira that drop Mana Spheres.
Here’s a list of fiends that drop Mana Spheres without needing to use items or abilities:
Enemy Name
Location
Yellow Element
Kilika Woods
Red Element
Mushroom Rock Road
White Element
Mi’ihen Highroad
Gold Element
Thunder Plains
Blue Element
Macalania Woods
Dark Element
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth
Black Element
Omega Ruins
Coeurl
Calm Lands, Cavern of the Stolen Fayth
Demonolith
Inside Sin, Omega Ruins
Machea
Omega Ruins
Grat
Mt. Gagazet
Ragora
Kilika Woods
Sandragora
Bikanel Island
Mandragora
Mt. Gagazet Cave, Zanarkand Ruins
Great Malboro
Inside Sin, Omega Ruins
Malboro
Calm Lands, Cavern of the Stolen Fayth
Maelspike
Mt. Gagazet
Remora
Via Purifico
Spirit
Omega Ruins
Imp
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, Mt. Gagazet
Aerouge
Thunder Plains
Gandarewa
Mushroom Rock Road, Djose Highroad, Moonflow
Ice Flan
Lake Macalania
Aqua Flan
Via Purifico
Dark Flan
Mt. Gagazet, Zanarkand Ruins
Flame Flan
Calm Lands
Snow Flan
Djose Highroad
Thunder Flan
Mi’ihen Highroad (Oldroad), Mushroom Rock Road
Water Flan
Besaid
Exoray
Inside Sin
Funguar
Mushroom Rock Road, Djose Highroad
Thorn
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth
Floating Death
Omega Ruins
Puroboros
Omega Ruins
Ghost
Cavern of the Stolen Fayth
Wraith
Inside Sin, Omega Ruins
Spirit
Omega Ruins
Mandragora
Mt. Gagazet Cave, Zanarkand Ruins
Ochu
Moonflow
Octopus
Via Purifico
Varuna
Inside Sin, Omega Ruins
Nebiros
Calm Lands
Sin (Fin)
S.S. Liki (Boss Fight)
Sinscale
Zanarkand, S.S. Liki (Boss Fight)
Enemies outside of the ones listed above may drop Mana Spheres through the use of Mana Distillers or abilities like Bribe and Extract Mana.
Using Distill Mana
The Customization Screen
All you need to do to use the Distill Mana ability is equip the weapon that has it and hit an enemy with a basic attack or skill. Once you do this, that enemy will be tagged with the Distill Mana status.
Being hit with the Distill Mana auto-ability will have the same effect as using Mana Distillers and the Extract Mana skill. The effects from these sources will not stack with each other.
