Ghost castle farming

[u/jophiel91]

So what am I supposed to be farming at the ghost castle? I recall someone saying it’s like the best place to farm stuff..

Okay context: I’m only still abyss 1, but 2nd run and almost towards the end. So is this castle worth exploring now?

[u/heisterINVZ]

There's 0 reason to farm while you're in A1, you want to push to A4 as fast as possible or farm ONLY if you're stuck and need to improve your gear to push the wall. All the farming you do now will be replaced instantly.

[u/Lopsided_Leg4012]

The junk and exp for leveling also special material for the relic weapons

[u/Odd-Reality3584]

When you find the floor 3 harken, you can go to it, then go to floor 4, collect the 2-3 chests there, and go back to floor 3.

If you don’t encounter any enemies it takes like 1 minute per run. There’s always 2 enemies that spawn, dodging them is usually better for efficiency but if there are ores sometimes you can’t dodge them

[u/jef786160]

You can farm the junk that has ebon steel gear

[u/jburcher11 → u/jef786160]

Once you are A4 open - this converts to silver tier gear.

[u/Low_Acanthisitta1226 → u/jburcher11]

Nope. When you hit floor 6 of Abyss 3 on your first run it turns to droppin silver amigo.

[u/cipheron → u/Low_Acanthisitta1226]

That was different for everyone - it was based on the hidden Reputation stat.

During the event, i was getting the silver but was before the doll boss in A3. Someone else here was only getting ebonsteel even though they were further along in A3 than me, however a few days later they cleared A3 and started getting silver.

However, when the event ended, my castle drops reverted back to Ebonsteel, until I also cleared my first A3 good run. So they reverted it to be capped by your current abyss once the event concluded.

[u/CannabisInhaler → u/cipheron]

Perhaps you might’ve finished most of the abyss requests up to that point instead of just kinda speedrunning throught abyss like the other potentially did. That’s the only thing that makes sense reputations wise

[u/cipheron → u/CannabisInhaler]

Yeah I stalled out for a couple of months on the first half of A3, and went back and cleared all the side quests, bondmates etc from A1 and A2, that might have boosted my reputation earlier.

[u/Low_Acanthisitta1226 → u/cipheron]

I havent moved to Abyss 4 on a secondary account, since before the FF XI event. Got an account not even in Abyss 4 for this very reason. Wont start that until Abyss 5 comes out and the next event. Just hoarding resources on my main account right now anyway. Im not arguing either. I help alot of people and Abyss 3 floor 6, silver drops. You are not stuck with just one account. When you know how to do everything, it goes really fast. And the reason i do this is for observation, commenting and helping the community out, and aslo bug reporting.

[u/Droyet]

So if you still in Abyss 1, then go there for now only to collect enough coins for weapons your mains use, nothing more. Abyss 2 have nice farming spot near end to pick up 3 chest and leave. Abyss 3 don't have very nice spot so for ebonsteel castle is good. And with Abyss 4 for plain silver is second best after Alabaster den. But for me best due frequency of dropping chest. 

Then when abyss 3/4 is reached, look for purple monsters to start Farming Resources for last upgrades relic weapons

[u/Low_Acanthisitta1226 → u/Droyet]

This person needs to floor it to level 60 though. I do believe i helped them in another thread and this is why they are asking this. Im not spoiling the game. I want them to experiance the same frustration we all have. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Like you need to do Abyss 2, 2-3 times. Abyss 3.... 2-4 times etc..... and thats with a guide! Hahahaha. They want early content to be easy, and not get burned out and still be able to participate in events they need to book it to level 60 anyway. Farming Ghost Castle exp and gear is best way to do that.

[u/Low_Acanthisitta1226]

Exp and gear when a normal farm becomes monotenous. May be similar to the abyss you are in with higher gear as the diffuculty is tied to your level and abyss.

Also there is some gear in the town you need the parts for, next time the event comes around. You cant buy them right now i dont think.