March 2022 Version Update

Luminicloth is a generic drop from almost every ghost. I farmed mine from the ghosts in Abyssea-Konschtat.

Fella out here goin full moron

Time is money, friend. Looking at your avatar ;)

He will make a profit, I made a killing a while ago from a cheap item cause I had stacks on an alt and ambuscade inflated the price 100x for one month.

He bought six, probably another 6 boxer doing it on all his accounts.

And as if by magic, it went from 1 on the AH to 23 28

I only actually found 2 Haunt pops, both on map 2 (the one that connects to Cape Teriggan). K-11 (which seems to be 100% a Haunt, ID 06C), and J-6/7 (which doesn't always pop so must be shared with something else that isn't a Haunt - Robber Crab? EDIT: Mob ID is 088, shared with a Robber Crab). The two locations with the most spots shown on the map at FFXIDB. Dunno what else might share ID with them in other locations.

5min respawns, drop rate sucks. I was semi-afk killing for hours to get 2 Spectral Goldenrod (1 each for main and alt). Must have killed around 20 Haunts with TH8~9 to get my two. Also went back just now to take a look for more Haunt pops on DNC and killed 4 more with TH4, no drop.

If this is required, it's gonna be brutal - especially for more populated servers. Maybe they're trying to let people remember that feeling of camping a monster against competition XD.

Just as a reminder (and not guarantee), SE increased the spawn rate on the Rolanberry NMs to 100% when they made white Rolanberry required. Now they reverted them back to the original rate, but this at least shows they are considering demand spikes when they start requiring these quest items.

I was finding like 5 at a time in the small area under the ledge close to the altepa entrance.

It's already getting a little competitive. I've camped out both the Crimson and Goldenrod items, every time I had others showing up at various camps and had some minor competition (most were respectful and we stayed to our own camps).

It'll be interesting to see if SE provides another source for these, but if they don't, it's gonna get nasty on busier servers when/if VR is a prereq for new content and all of a sudden everyone cares about it. Both items seem equally bad: the Fomors have a short time window and the Haunts have scattered, few spawns.

Good call, I must have just not gone into that area. H-7 on map 1, I'm currently looking at 6 Haunts. Several lv63, and a couple lv66. This is prob the best spot though, and not far from the one on the next map that pops at K-11 next to the Ethereal Junction.

I did go to maps 3/4, the further underground ones where Pelican and Yowie/Arachne spawn. No Haunts down there as far as I can tell.

EDIT: And now I've killed 20+ Haunts today with TH4 while just messing around out of curiosity to confirm their spawn points, with zero Spectral Goldenrod drops. Yay. Gonna leave this nonsense now, got the two I need (hopefully that's all!)

EDIT 2: Those ones in the room on map 1 near Altepa seem to have a longer repop time. Old FFXIclopedia wiki says 16min, so probably that. I can confirm the two on map 2 are only 5min though. The one pop at H-6 on map 1 (which you need to go into map 2 and back around to the S to get to) is also 5min.

it's rare, took me a couple hours to get all 3 that i needed

Clearly just desperate to HQ a full Shade set.

edit: 1/4 on Spectral Crimson at Lufaise (first respawn after kills)

(Spectral Goldenrod) Kuftal Haunts 1/10 ish. 2 of them respawn at 5 minutes, one right at the entrance and the other over the coffer spot. the other group of 5 are on a much longer respawn.

(Spectral Crimson) harder, Phasma 67-72 Uleguerand Range (J-9) went 0/25 so gave up there and went back to Misareaux Coast (J-10) where Fomor dropped at about 1/30

Edit: at max THF

There are 3 respawns at 5min.
* One near the entrance from Altepa (top part of Map 1, the one that pops on the north side of the boulders blocking the path so requires you to go up to Map 2 then back in, unless you can aggro through the rocks).
* One on map 2 at K-11 (by the Ethereal Junction)
* One in the little curved path at J-6/J-7, shared with a Robber Crab (Mob ID 088) but usually pops as a Haunt.

The other group of 5-6 at Map 1 near entrance from Altep is on a 16 min timer, so could take them out, then farm the 5min spawns for a few pops, then back to entrance.


I suspect the Lufaise ones at Blueblade Fell have a higher drop rate than Misareaux (maybe Uncommon rate versus the next step down). Some discussion on previous page.

I can't wait to not actually need these after farming them, or have the patch make the items easier to obtain... But for some reason, I have kind of enjoyed this odd diversion for the sake of exploration :)