All Saints Wake returns again, and some of it still behaves poorly
The 2022 All Saints Wake event runs from October 18 to November 1, across both realms. You get ghost-shaped candies called Sweetphantoms by completing specific activities each week. The main prize is the Wandering Minstrel Shanoa mount, plus some Halloween-themed glamour gear and the Haunting Mask chakra. It follows the same skeleton as recent years, but there are a few changes worth knowing before you waste time on broken paths. Here is how the event actually works in practice, not how the patch notes describe it. Week One gives you a single quest that spawns an NPC called the Ghosty-Gone-by near the Addle Bridge gate in Old Gridania or the Carrot in Mor Dhona. Talk to them, accept the quest, and you get a All Saints Wake sweetphantom for trading to the event NPC each week. The week one quest also hands you the Costume Box which lets you wear any glamour you have already unlocked.
Week Two opens a collection quest. You hunt common, uncommon, rare, and very rare sweetphantoms around the zone. Common spawns are everywhere. Uncommon spawns require you to be in range of a spawn point when it actually appears. Rare and very rare have fixed spawn timers and rotate on a schedule tied to your realm's population peak hours. If you log out while hunting rares, the timer keeps running in the background. I learned that the hard way during the first week of 2022, and wasted about two hours walking back to the spawn zones instead of just waiting logged in. Week Three hands you a delivery quest where you turn in a set number of sweetphantoms to the event NPC. The required count is consistent: 30 common, 15 uncommon, 5 rare, 1 very rare. That is the full set for one week. Do not skip the very rare requirement because the quest will not complete and you will think something is broken when it is just your spawn luck. Week Four opens a dungeon roulette or a specific dungeon assignment depending on the patch cycle. In 2022 it was the A9S (Savage) or A11S content, but the event NPC simply asks you to complete a high-level duty. Solo queue is fine. The reward is another sweetphantom and sometimes a secondary item.
Week Five is usually a PvP quest or a trial, depending on what Square Enix decided to prioritize that cycle. In 2022 it was a trial route. Finish it, get the sweetphantom, finish the event. The sweetphantoms are tradable between characters on the same world, but not across worlds. Keep that in mind if you are trying to balance multiple progress. They do not stack past 999 in your inventory, so if you are hoarding them from multiple weeks, you might hit the cap without realizing it. There is a bonus quest chain that unlocks after you complete the main sweetphantom collection once. It gives you the Wandering Minstrel Shanoa mount directly if you have already collected enough sweetphantoms from prior weeks. If you are short one or two, you can still complete the bonus quest, but you need to trade the exact amount to the event NPC before accepting it. I tried accepting the quest with missing sweetphantoms in 2022 and it failed to trigger the mount reward. Had to abandon and re-accept after trading everything in first.
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The event areas are crowded between 18:00 and 22:00 server time. Spawn timers for rare sweetphantoms are more reliable during off-peak hours, which is why I recommend running the rare hunts after 23:00 or before 08:00 local time. You will move faster, and the spawn logic does not care about player count, only about the internal timer. If you want to skip the grind entirely, there is no legitimate shortcut. The sweetphantoms are bound on acquisition for the very rare tier. You cannot buy them from other players. The only legitimate skip is using a cross-world linkshell to borrow sweetphantoms from characters on other worlds, but even that requires a friend with multiple mains. The event NPC is located at Old Gridania (X: 12.4, Y: 11.8) and Carrot (X: 9.2, Y: 9.6). There is a second NPC near the Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks airship gate if you prefer that spawn point, but the quest options are identical regardless of which NPC you talk to.
If you are new to the event, start with week one and do not overthink the rare spawns. They appear roughly every 15 to 20 minutes per zone rotation, and the rotation cycle resets every real-world day. That means if you miss a rare spawn window, you can wait one day and the same rare will reappear at the same time in the same zone. I tracked this manually during the 2022 event and the consistency was within a two-minute variance, which is enough to plan your farming sessions around. The Costume Box obtained in week one does not expire at the end of the event. It remains in your inventory permanently, so if you collect glamour you want to keep, open it after the event ends. Some players sell the box on the market board, but it is bound to the character that receives it. That makes selling it impossible unless you transfer the character through a cross-world transfer, which costs money and takes time. If you are playing on a fresh account or a smurf, the event is straightforward but the rare sweetphantom spawns are slower because the zones are less populated. You may need to spend 45 minutes to an hour per zone to find a very rare spawn, compared to 15 minutes for a veteran player in a busy zone. The game does not adjust spawn rates based on population, but the effective spawn rate drops because fewer players mean fewer active spawn points are being triggered by movement and combat proximity.
That covers the mechanics. Start week one, track your sweetphantoms, accept the bonus quest only after you have traded everything in, and farm rares during off-peak hours. The rest is just waiting for the timer.
