Tournesol The Tournesol is a weapon in the " Final Fantasy " series . Debuting in " Final Fantasy XII " , it is a golden greatsword with a sun on one side of the hilt , and moon on the other . Appearances . " Final Fantasy XII " . The Tournesol is the strongest greatsword . Its license is found at the bottom right corner of the License Board . It can be bought from the Bazaar under the name of " The Sunflower " for 600 , 000 gil . It is a golden sword with runes carved on the blade , and a sun on one side of the hilt , and moon on the other . While it appears that the sword needs only three respective pieces of loot to synthesize , those items must also be synthesized first , and the total eight pieces of loot required can be hard to obtain in numbers . The Tournesol license costs 225 LP . It has an Attack power of 140 , topped only by the Zodiac Spear . While lacking a few points in attack power , the Tournesol exceeds the Zodiac Spear in terms of multi - hit and Evasion rate , but spears are faster weapons in terms of attack speed than greatswords . Two fake Tournesols , alluding to the Excalibur and the Excalipoor , are used by Gilgamesh . These swords have a shorter handle and are meant to be wielded with one hand , and have a sun with a face ( Excalibur ) and a moon ( Excalipoor ) on the hilt . In the " International Zodiac Job System " version , only the Knight can equip the weapon . Requirements . The Tournesol requires several rare pieces of loot to be synthesized . The player should be careful at the bazaar and not sell the items as soon after obtaining them , but keeping them and then selling the items together after having the right amount . Bazaar glitch . When items are sold at the bazaar , the game remembers how many items have been sold at any point . While the items can be sold whenever , when any item comes available at the bazaar using a certain ingredient , the number of said items in stock drops to zero . Therefore , if there are two items that both require , say , two Bone Fragments to make , and the player has sold six Bone Fragments to the bazaar when one of the items becomes available , the number of Bone Fragments in the bazaar ' s " memory " drops to zero , meaning the player will need to farm more Bone Fragments for the second item requiring that ingredient . This glitch also works the other way around , to the player ' s advantage , because if both items come available " at the same time " the player only needs the two Bone Fragments that can be used for both items , so instead of needing four ( two for each item ) , one would only need two ( two is used for both items simultaneously ) . This glitch can be exploited to obtain Tournesol with fewer High Arcanas than normally required . Since both Empyreal Soul and Serpentarius require a High Arcana , if the player sells the required items for these two at the same time , and " sells only one High Arcana " , both Empyreal Soul and Serpentarius appear on the bazaar anyway . For example : " Final Fantasy XIV " . In patch 2 . 5 Before the Fall part 1 , when battling Gilgamesh ' s second form he wields the fake Tournesol as one of his weapons along other weapons from the franchise . The Tournesol returns as a greatsword and as the most powerful weapon , only matched in Attack power by the , a katana . The Tournesol is crafted at the bazaar in the " Flower of the Sun " series , and the loot that compose it are the High Arcana , Scarletite , and the Emperor Scale . Lanistas learn Dragonheart from the Tournesol . " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . While in his EX Mode , Vaan wields the Tournesol for his greatsword attack . It appears in his victory pose if he wins while in EX Mode .