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The sand in this bronze hourglass mysteriously disappears before reaching the bottom, only to reappear again at the top.

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The bottom line indicates the Dynamis zone for which the hourglass is valid, and the date and time of expiry. On an expired hourglass, the bottom line will read:

unknown : --- --


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want to know
# Apr 23 2008 at 1:02 PM Rating: Decent
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i found a Perpetual Hourglass with it saying <Unkown:.. ... ... .. has it ever been used cus everyone i asked has no clue
Sellable?
# May 22 2007 at 9:37 AM Rating: Decent
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Can this be sold in a bazaar?
I ask this because as i was looking through peoples bazaars i saw something-hourglass and it was like 5k max but then i didnt know that it was used for so didnt buy it.
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# Aug 25 2006 at 3:30 PM Rating: Decent
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woops.

Edited, Aug 25th 2006 at 4:31pm EDT by SuperFlik
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# Aug 25 2006 at 3:29 PM Rating: Decent
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Are these NPC sellable? >.>
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Dynamis
# Mar 09 2006 at 10:03 PM Rating: Decent
Ok so what I want to know is...what is going to a Dynamis really good for,and what is there?
What is a perpetual hourglass?
# Aug 21 2005 at 4:54 PM Rating: Good
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I have heard many many questions about what a perpetual hourglass is. What is it for? How do I get one? Is it really worth 1mill gil?
Well now im going to try to answer there questions.

Whats is it for? It is used to enter a Dynamis world. Bastok, Sandoria, Windurst, Jeuno, Xacrabard, or Beaucedine Glacier.

How do I get one? This is obatined after givign a goblin merchant 1,000,000g. He will then give you a timeless hourglass which is to be given to a trail mark in one of the areas with a Dynamis world. Once trading it to that are you will recieve this Perpetual hourglass. This can be used to make more. All you do is go to items select it and use it and you have another one.

Is it really worth 1mill gil? No it is not. I got mine for 1g. Because these are able to be made over and over there is no price. In my opinion if someone is nice they should give them out for free.

Well I hope this clears up some confusion. Don't take my word for fact but as a good gesture. I'm pretty sure I am correct but not 100%.
What is a perpetual hourglass?
# Sep 15 2006 at 1:12 PM Rating: Decent
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When the timeless hourglass is traded for the perpetual hourglass, and then subsequently broken up so that everyone who is entering dynamis can have one, the glasses themselves expire after a certain amount of time. The amount of time they last is dependent on how many time extentions are cleared inside dynamis through killing various mobs. Anyway, getting the max amount of extentions will make the hourglass last only a few hours. Afterwards, the players are ejected from the zone and can no longer enter it using the hourglass they were given. After this point, the hourglass is USELESS. Meaning, if you purchased one from someones bazaar, congratulations, cause you just purchased something that you cannot use. After being ejected from the dynamis zone it is commonplace to just drop the glass, but some people will bazaar them as a joke to see who will buy it.
RE: What is a perpetual hourglass?
# May 15 2006 at 8:31 AM Rating: Decent
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:(

i just paid 10 gil for an unused one. 11 with tax.

oh well, just something to keep around and see if anyone is stu... i mean king enough to buy it for 1000 or so. XD
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# Jul 26 2005 at 3:52 PM Rating: Decent
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What is this for?
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where do i get one?
# Apr 11 2005 at 9:03 PM Rating: Decent
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where do i get a perpetual hr glass?
Unknown?
# Mar 16 2005 at 8:13 PM Rating: Decent
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Mine has some dashes but it does NOT look like the pic. It says "Unknown" with a few dashes after it. I read in some FAQ that these are good for 20k in a bazaar, and that's how I found it and bought it since I had plenty of spare cash to toss around at the time.

So does Unknown mean I can use it?
no they don't sell for 1 million gil
# Mar 02 2005 at 6:25 AM Rating: Decent
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This is the "ticket" to get into Dynamis. The part at the bottom, that is all dashes, would be filled in with the information specific to that Dynamis (the time of the Dynamis event, etc). If it's all dashes like in the screenshot, the hourglass has no function.
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Perpetual Hourglass
# Feb 17 2005 at 10:38 AM Rating: Good
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I bought one of these for 1 gil from a bazaar... Do they really sell for 1,000,000 gil?!
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Sorry
# Jan 18 2005 at 8:24 PM Rating: Decent
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I apologize for the last post, they all have the dashes I just didn't see them >.<
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Good Hourglasses?
# Jan 14 2005 at 6:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I have three hourglasses all of which aren't dated, dont have a destination set, and dont have all those dashes at the bottom... does this mean they're good and i can sell them for above the 50K im selling them for now?
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How much is it worth?
# Oct 24 2004 at 2:03 PM Rating: Decent
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How much does the AH seel for da hourglass..?!?!!?

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RE: How much is it worth?
# Jan 27 2005 at 6:19 PM Rating: Decent
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...cant sell @ AH. It may not be rare, nor ex, but you cant sell'em @ AH...you can however get them from bazaars...



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ummmmm
# Oct 23 2004 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
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i just bought one for 6k it says unknown---------->>> can someone please tell me if this is unused or not please post a awnser
never been used
# Oct 19 2004 at 9:48 PM Rating: Decent
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Hmmmm. How do u know if it has never been used before? dose it have a date on the bottom of the item?
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never been used
# Oct 19 2004 at 9:48 PM Rating: Decent
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Hmmmm. How do u know if it has never been used before? dose it have a date on the bottom of the item?
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question
# Oct 16 2004 at 10:17 PM Rating: Decent
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sum1 gave me one of these, but it says in the things <unknown: --- -- ----, --:--:--? whats that mean?
obtaining one
# Sep 29 2004 at 12:00 PM Rating: Decent
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so exactly how would you find an hourglass and if you do how do you manage to dupicate the item enough times to be able to go to dynamis coninuously.
umm...but i thought....
# Aug 30 2004 at 3:30 AM Rating: Decent
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i could have sworn Playonline said these could be used over and over... but you can only use it one place at a time...this is the first time i seen anything about hour glasses being worthless (unless 64 people have allready entered first) you people sure? has any of you used one yet or is this another bs load of garbage?
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RE: umm...but i thought....
# Aug 30 2004 at 4:44 PM Rating: Excellent
I go to Dynamis twice a week. I can assure you that they can only be used once. Well, they can be used as many times as necessary to leave and re-enter a Dynamis area during the time allotted (a maximum of 210 minutes), but once that time is expired, the hourglass is completely worthless.
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dynamis
# Aug 12 2004 at 3:34 PM Rating: Default
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mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.jp/ffxi/us/

everything on dynamis can be found on that page..

Edited, Thu Aug 12 16:35:26 2004
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RE: dynamis
# Oct 07 2004 at 2:05 PM Rating: Decent
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That link is dead ^^;
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RE: dynamis
# May 22 2005 at 10:59 AM Rating: Decent
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# Aug 06 2004 at 11:50 AM Rating: Decent
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ok i have a question
i have one same as the pic show above and it is unused, can anyone tell me how to duplicate another one that has no date on it?
b/c i saw someone have 10 unuse hourglass
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RE: question
# Aug 12 2004 at 9:55 AM Rating: Excellent
Every Perpetual Hourglass is used--trading the original Timeless Hourglass to the trail markings to get the first Perpetual Hourglass starts the clock ticking on that Dynamis area.

The dashes at the bottom means that the time in Dynamis has expired, meaning that the hourglass is completely worthless.
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Ahhh
# Jul 20 2004 at 11:44 PM Rating: Decent
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That cleared a lot of things up. Thanks :)
...
# Jul 20 2004 at 3:18 PM Rating: Excellent
As many have said, this is the item required for entry in to Dynamis. This is how it works ...

A single individual trades 1,000,000 gil to one of the goblin merchants that stands at the entrance to the beastmen areas. The goblin gives him a Timeless Hourglass.

The Timeless Hourglass is then traded to a set of Trail Markings (not goblin footprint) in Southern San d'Oria, Windurst Walls, Bastok Mines, Ru'Lude Gardens, Xacrabard, or Beaucedine Glacier. Doing so reserves that Dynamis area, and the individual receives a Perpetual Hourglass back.

The Perpetual Hourglass can then be "used" to duplicate it as many times as necessary. There is no "parent" hourglass -- they can all be duplicated by anyone who has one. The Perpetual Hourglass is given to anyone who is to enter Dynamis--they trade the perpetual hourglass to the Trail Markings to be teleported in to Dynamis.

You'll notice the dashes at the bottom of the screenshot. That means that the time on the hourglass has expired, and the hourglass is completely worthless. If the hourglass still had time on it, there would be a location (for example, Dynamis-Bastok) and a time there instead. The time is the time that hourglass will expire in your local time.

You can rest assured that if you are given a Perpetual Hourglass by a stranger, or weren't invited to go on a Dynamis run, then it is worthless because either a) the time has expired, or b) the group has retreated or given up anyway.
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RE: ...
# Jul 21 2004 at 11:15 AM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
The Perpetual Hourglass can then be "used" to duplicate it as many times as necessary.


Can you really duplicate it indefinitely, or only up to 64 copies? Thanks for the great informative post by the way.
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RE: ...
# Jul 21 2004 at 2:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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Can you really duplicate it indefinitely, or only up to 64 copies? Thanks for the great informative post by the way.


Yes, the hourglass itself can be duplicated indefinitely, but only 64 people may be in a given Dynamis area at a time. The server records the first 64 players to enter a given Dynamis area for that time slot, and they are the only people who will be able to return do that area during the alotted time if they leave for some reason (by warping, returning to home point, etc.).
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Correction
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Correction... You don't get this from a Goblin Footprint, you have to trade a Timeless Hourglass (go look into that) to the footprint and you get THIS.
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# Jul 20 2004 at 12:16 PM Rating: Default
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What do this item look like if it HASNT been used?
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useless hourglass?
# Jul 20 2004 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
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I got one of these as well. Someone sold it to me for 500 gil and told me to reproduce them and sell them. It has a date (June 30th) it's not counting and I can use it to make as many more as I want. I'm just wondering if it's any good, is it worth selling or can I just trash it and forget about it?
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Hmmmm
# Jul 20 2004 at 8:07 AM Rating: Decent
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Oh I see.

How do you know when an hourglass is unused? Instead of the dashes, what do you see?
wrong
# Jul 19 2004 at 11:33 PM Rating: Decent
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If you have one that has a bunch of <---.---.--> it is useless and used. Only worth 10-500gil on most servers unless people are morons and dont know it.

Only unused hourglasses are worth 1,000,000.. and its that for a reason.
hourglass Asura
# Jul 19 2004 at 11:00 PM Rating: Decent
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If anyone would like to purchase my hourglass, I am selling one on Asura, my character is Xanden. Make me an offer I can't refuse. ^^
Hourglass
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I bought one for 10 gil when I was running around as a lvl 12 RDM a month ago. I thought it was a furnishing, so I bought it. Now I've been trying to sell it to someone... but, no one's interested.

If interested in purchasing one, /tell Leobardis in Kujata :).
RE: Hourglass
# Jul 21 2004 at 1:04 AM Rating: Default
Dude ill buy it from u. Just for kicks.... ill probably just put it im my bazaar for 1mil. and see if anyone wants it :) Anyways my name is Delamar in game. Ill /tell you tomarrow (wed) when i get on. But i might not get on tomarrow.... anyways... you will probably not get this message.... anyways.....

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pertetual hourglass
# Jul 19 2004 at 6:18 PM Rating: Decent
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ill sell you mine for 10 k on gigalmesh server :) send tell ultraed
pertetual hourglass for 10 k 1 million gill item
RE: pertetual hourglass
# Jul 19 2004 at 8:30 PM Rating: Decent
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It is the people selling these for ridiculously low prices that is making me wonder if another way to obtain these has been discoved. I just can't imagine someone being willing to take a 990,000gil loss.

I don't know. If anyone out there has anymore information I would love to hear it. ^^
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RE: pertetual hourglass
# Jul 19 2004 at 8:41 PM Rating: Excellent
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I had one of these I was given for free. After I checked into it, I found that after certain conditions are met, they get a date and time on them. Once that date and time has passed, the hourglass is useless. Mine was already dated for three months earlier than the day I got it. ^^

If you see someone offering one for a "good" price, make sure it's not expired first. Otherwise they're probably just trying to scam you because you heard they're worth a lot, and don't realize the one you're buying is worthless.

Edited, Mon Jul 19 21:41:46 2004
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# Jul 19 2004 at 6:04 PM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
One of them was actually counting up in real-time. But only one of the 4 I have seen was counting, the others looked exactly like the pic.

They count only when that set is actively in Dynamis.
Once a Perpetual hourglass is obtained it can be used / divided. Kind of like... there is one Parent Hourglass and all children of that belong to the same group.
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Dynamis
# Jul 19 2004 at 6:04 PM Rating: Decent
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This item is obtained from goblin npc. It is required to enter Dynamis.

This also costs exactly 1 million gil. Usualy Dynamis lasts couple hours earth time but this can be extended by doing certain things inside Dynamis
RE: Dynamis
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Actually, I think you get this by examining the Trail Markings where Dynamis occurs. The Gobs you're referring to do handle upgrading the drops you get in Dynamis. Specifically upgrading the relic armor into your AF2 set.
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Relic IS the "AF2" set. The only thing upgraded from dynamis is relic weapon dropped in dynamis.
Seen them alot.
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I have been seeing these around a whole lot more lately. I believe alot of them were on NA players too. Seems like the first trip may inspire others! ^^

Anyone know how one of these is attained?

Just curious as some of the peope I have seen with them were not exactly Dynamis bound levels.
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Seen them...
# Jul 19 2004 at 4:37 PM Rating: Decent
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I have seen a couple of these...I was wondering what they were for. One of them was actually counting up in real-time. But only one of the 4 I have seen was counting, the others looked exactly like the pic.
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the key to dynamis
# Jul 19 2004 at 3:57 PM Rating: Default
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if i'm not mistaken you need one of these to get to dynamis. and it's not a bad picture either!
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RE: the key to dynamis
# Jul 19 2004 at 4:42 PM Rating: Default
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yup. this is what you need in order to go into the Dynamis battles. from what i've read, you can find spots in Dynamis that give you more time, as you can only stay for as long as what's on your hourglass.
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