Nessy Hunting - Haunted Week only

Dear agents,

Yesterday I promised to share you some tips of Nessy Hunting you can utilize in this Haunted Week. Of course there are several ways you might think of, including the normal one that is focused on Nessy-only ghosts. If you haven't read my previous posts about basic Nessy Hunting, you can refer to this post and other posts in Nessy Reservation series to flourish your knowledge even more.

WHO

Okay let's start by the most important thing. The ones that actually will make the difference are these duo Haunting temptress ghost & Widow temptress ghost.

You might think that they are just 'additional Nessy providers' that reveal themselves in Haunted Week. Wrong. They should be the main targets if one wants to farm Nessy even more. Previously, I've said I've gained about 2000 Nessy during this HW only, and most of them are dropped by the temptresses. Okay, but how is this true ? 

First, they are party ghosts, which can be attracted by mocktails. And they are anti-raw in the sense that only your mystic value counts. So you can use mocktails with mystic setup to catch them and hope that they will drop Nessy, that's the basic.

For the mystic setup, I've found that there is a "Mystic Cap". Clearly, 100 mystic doesn't mean perfect catch rates for non anti-mystic ghosts as I've tried it myself and there are a lot of stories going out in the forum regarding the same topic. There have been a lot of theories suggested , but what I can see from my previous data (where mystic > 85), the 'cap' is about 80 - 85%, and thus you don't need to really push the mystic after that point, and you can try to maximize loot / attraction instead.

Now, there are different mocktails to use, but I found this interesting occurrence from my data while hunting with Devil Driver(DD) and some midnight attraction outside midnight time : "The rate of Widow temptress (compared to midnight ghosts only) is higher 5 to 10% then the rate of Haunting temptress (compared to non-midnight ghosts only)". It means that more midnight attraction (MA) is better, especially enhanced by the fact that midnight ghosts have a slightly higher chance to drop loots. It's then quite natural to use Iron Maiden/MAC (7%) or Magic Maze/CW (5%) but personally I prefer the first setup (infernal one) since even without a loot contract, the Nessy is coming in an unbelievable rate; and I get extra 5 mystic ad 2% midnight attraction at the same time. Also don't forget attraction does matter. Bait such as Green Goddess / Devil Driver and additional attraction will definitely improve your rate. In this case you can use the modified arcane setup Magic Maze/MBS (1%) for extra 2 attractions. 

Depend on baits, we will have different setup (provided that you equip Mighty Chrono Crystal and Cosmic Agent) :

Normal Mocktails

Iron Maiden / Black Dragon's Breath (BDB) / -3 min companion / MAC

or

Magic Maze / BDB / -3 min companion / MBS

Amber Dragon Whelp is the suggested companion for its mystic, although Icy Whelp Dragon is the best for its loot and +2 attraction; only if you have one.

If you don't have Ice Crystal -> use -2 min mocktail, Midnight rider will be a good choice for its MA and 5 mystic. You can use black widow instead.

If you have Ice Crystal -> use -1 min mocktail (Frozen mist or Midnight smash, again for its MA)

You can also try Green Goddess for a 3 min cooldown (or 2.5 if you've finished your tombstone collection), sacrifice a bit of t/sc to attraction.

DD / Night cap/Corpse reviver

The baits here are -3 min ones, so now we need to think about the companion we should use.

If you don't have Ice Crystal -> use either Wax Pyramid (WP) / -3 min companion or BDB / -2 min companion

If you have Ice Crystal -> use either WP / -2 min companion or BDB / -1 min companion

If possible try to use WP for its additional 5 mystic compared to BDB, and 5 more MA.

Of course Devil driver is a better choice, it has the best attraction afterall. I've been researching the rate of DD+1 to DD+5 in R3 (Castle McMahon) and here are the results so far

For those of you having the recipe, mixing Devil Driver with Nessy will still make you more profitable, since the rate of catching them is about 15% (up to  3 times the Nessy ghost's rate). Otherwise you can buy the IG 1s from the Bayoushi shop, and then you can sell your Nessy profit in return.

But nevertheless, if you want the slower-but-steady approach, use the Nightcap instead. Your Nessy will still go up pretty fast compared to normal Nessy hunting.

WHERE

Basically, everywhere in Haunted Week castles except R4. If you've read my previous post, I mentioned that their rate in R4 are very very low. Some of you may have noticed this anomaly. So just do the trick in the highest region available for you to maximize your exp/money intake.

Try this, and be rejoiced, enjoy the remaining of your Haunted Week stocking your Nessy ! :)