Cetus Wisp

"Strange stone lifeforms that call the Plains home. They are a rare find, clustering together, floating above a patch of ground they've taken inexplicable interest in. They are an enigma."

- In-Game Description

Cetus Wisps are fucking horrible little gremlins found hovering on the edge of most bodies of water in the Plains of Eidolon, and are also purchasable from The Quills for at the rank of NEET with no future.

Behavior
Cetus Wisps are generally really obnoxious to get and practically impossible to see. When approached by a player Wisps will scream and shit violently, instantly killing the player.

Identified more as a loot pickup than a non-hostile NPC, they are widely used as a resource for crafting. Items that require Wisps as a component are Amp and Zaw components, Exodia arcanes, cosmetics, Gara's chassis and Revenant's systems.

Blueprints Requiring Cetus Wisps
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Tips

 * In addition to their reactive escape mechanism, Wisps will periodically despawn if located but not collected within a certain amount of time. This makes waiting for Smeeta Kavat's  a risky venture.
 * As of players can obtain Wisps from Quill Onkko for  at the rank of Architect.
 * Wisps show up as loot on the Plains. Therefore,, , and can be used to identify them, greatly reducing time used for searching.
 * Similar to resources, Wisp instances are spawned individually for each player. They can be picked up and marked without having them float away for other players.
 * Stealth abilities will not prevent wisps from escaping. and  will not pick them up and players must manually collect the Wisp, given that Wisps also ignores the 3-meter universal vacuum.
 * Wisps can be picked up while in Archwing. Itzal allows players to quickly skim fly around using Cosmic Crush ability to suck up wisps. Loot Detector and Thief's Wit can be used when in archwing looking for Wisps.
 * Wisps can be picked up by the Chesa Kubrow.
 * Wisps can be encountered at any time of day, though much easier to see at night.
 * During the day, 3-4 Wisps will spawn across the entirety of the Plains. At night, the number of Wisps spawned will increase to 6-8.
 * It is possible for Gara Toht Lake to spawn up to 4, or even 5 at night.
 * Wisps have set spawn points and will choose from a subset of those to spawn at upon entering the Plains, after which no more Wisps will spawn for that session. To continue searching for more Wisps, players will have to spawn a new instance of the Plains.
 * An active Resource Booster or the periodical buff will double the number of Wisps picked up for the duration.

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