Seasonal / Special Ghost Souvenir Hunting

Hi all fellow trappers, it's been quite a long time since the last post. In this post I will share with you about this small-yet-important topic about seasonal/special ghost souvenir hunting.

As you all know that in Ghost Trappers there are a lot of seasonal ghosts that only appear once a year, and special ghosts that appear only on common goal buffs. These ghosts are around only for 24-hour period yet they drop exclusive loots and souvenirs. Therefore we need a strategy to get those exclusive drops or else we need to wait until another time up to one year later!

Raging Demon (buff from CG) drops Little Devil, while Daniel Ghost drops Graphic Tablet.

Fortunately these ghosts are not meant exclusively for higher-level players; they are set so that even lower-level agents can also catch them and get the drops. So what is important here? There are two points to note:

1. The raw power needed to catch these ghosts are low. This is to accomodate lower-level agents needs, which may not have powerful setup in the meantime. In fact, even around 25 raw power is enough to catch these ghosts.
2. Since lower-level players might not afford expensive baits such as mocktails and Nessy's, these ghosts are set so that it can be attracted using low attraction baits such as Silver Star-Green. In practice, any bait can do, but I found that SSG attracts even more of these ghosts rather than using Nessy's.
   
   

Silver star-green works best!

This two points are also stated in GT Wiki, the full article is located here.

So what is the strategy that we should use? My approach is to focus on attracting those ghosts first. This means you need to have SSG armed while maintaining the lowest cooldown time that you are able to manage. I have written another article about minimizing your T/sc here, check it out!

One thing that I always differ from other people is, I don't put too much focus about the loot multiplier. As long as you can keep them coming, soon they will drop their souvenirs for you! Most of people will maximise their loot, and hence make their cooldown time longer, and still they won't even attract any of these ghosts. Of course if you can craft your setup to have high loot multiplier and 2 minutes cooldown, it will be the best! Go ahead and do so :D

Another point to note, while minimizing T/sc is not a problem for higher-level agents, it will still be a problem for lower-level agents which might not have all the gears such as MCC and such. Don't worry! There are some cheaper trap combinations which can minimize your cooldown such as PC Game/Lava Lamps/BDH, which practically can reach the same cooldown as the expensive Danse Macabre/Neon Lights/SHQ.

If you are not satisfied with your cooldown time, there is still one last resort. That is the Nessy's Golden Reserve. With -5 min t/sc it practically will solve your cooldown problems. HOWEVER, use it with caution. I've seen a lot of people complaining that they didn't attract any of these ghosts with Nessy's and ended up wasting hundreds of bottles of their precious Nessy's. That is their own fault. So what should you take into account if you want to use Nessy?

1. If your setup is mystic-based (mystic power 50+), choose a location where there are a lot of mystic-resistant ghosts. This will make sure you won't catch those MR ghosts and not wasting your Nessy's. For R1 it will be McDougan, for R2 it will be McKenny, for R3 it will be Count Church.
2. If your setup is raw-based, try to minimize your mystic power and go to a location where your raw power is not powerful enough to catch the ghosts there. This will ensure that no normal ghosts will be caught with your setup, but only the special ghosts can be caught! For information of how much raw power needed to catch specific ghosts, refer to this site.

This strategy can also be used for common goal buff-ghosts such as Raging Demon Ghost, Ethereal Ghost and such. The principle is just the same.

Next seasonal ghost is the Valentine Ghost on 14 February, it has the Heart-Shaped Arrow souvenir! That will be the time to try out this strategy and get the loot. As for next post, I can't tell you yet what I want to share.. just stay tuned!