Voidwalkers are invisible NMs that can only be unveiled by purchasing Clear abyssite from Assai Nybaem in Ru'Lude Gardens (G-10), then using the /heal command to track down and hunt in corresponding Present-day and Shadowreign areas. These monsters are an integral step in creating Empyrean Weapons through Trial of the Magians. Similar to this system although for Abyssea area NMs, a Clear demilune abyssite from a Cruor Prospector is required instead.

Getting Started

Speak with Assai Nybaem in Ru'Lude Gardens (G-10) to purchase a Clear abyssite for 1,000 gil.

• Similar to this system although for Abyssea area NMs, purchase a Clear demilune abyssite for 300 cruor from a Cruor Prospector instead.

How It Works

When you have any of the abyssite key items, resting with /heal will check whether there are any Voidwalker NMs alive anywhere in the zone:

• The message "The abyssite quivers ever so slightly, but emits no light" means that there are no Voidwalkers currently alive in this zone that you are currently able to spawn.
• The message "The abyssite quivers ever so slightly and emits a faint light" means that there is at least one Voidwalker alive in the zone that you are currently able to spawn.
  • Since you can carry multiple tiers of abyssite simultaneously - for example, a clear abyssite, a colorful abyssite, and a purple abyssite - this message alone does not tell you what you're detecting. For that, you must be enough to get a "beam of light". See the table below.
• If you get no message at all when you /heal, you're in a zone that has no Voidwalkers.
  • Relevant zones are shown in the big infographic below.

If there is a Voidwalker reasonably close to you (within 300 yalms of your current position), you will receive a message indicating the distance and closest compass direction to the VWNM.

• The strength of the "beam of light" emitted by the abyssite indicates the tier of VWNM detected. See the table below.
• If you have two or more applicable abyssites and there are two or more nearby spawnable VWNMs, it will (usually ) report the nearest, regardless of tier.

If you /heal within ~5 yalms of the Voidwalker's current location, it will spawn and attack you.

• They move more quickly than players, and /healing takes time, so it may take several attempts.
• The VWNM spawns claimed to the player that popped it.
• If it is a tier 3+ VWNM, that player is also the only one who loses their abyssite when the VWNM spawns.

Each tier of Voidwalker has a different message for its abyssite resonance:

Tier	Type	Abyssite Message	Respawn Time
1	"Small Fry"	feebly	Within Minutes
2	NM	softly	60 Minutes
3	"Shadow"/"True" HNM	solidly	120+ Minutes
4	Yilbegan	strongly	120+ Minutes, likely 8+ Hours. Exact time unknown

Tier 3 and 4 VWNMs have two different versions that can spawn, often referred to as "Shadow" and "True". The "True" versions grant a title and drop rings, while the "Shadow" versions do not.
These names come from the only visible difference between the two: "True" VWNMs cast a shadow, while the "Shadow" version has an otherwise identical model and animations but casts no shadow.
Make sure you have "High" shadows enabled in your game settings (under Config -> Misc. settings) to be able to see the shadow! If this setting is enabled and the monster does not cast a shadow, it is not "True".

Upon defeating a VWNM, there is a chance that your abyssite will upgrade to the next tier of abyssite:

• When you defeat a tier 1, there is a low chance that your clear abyssite will upgrade into a colorful abyssite if you don't already have one.
  • If you already have a colorful abyssite, you cannot upgrade the clear abyssite.
• When you defeat a tier 2, there is a medium chance that your colorful abyssite will upgrade into a tier 3 abyssite, depending on the zone you're currently in:
  • Bastok area: Orange abyssite
  • San d'Oria area: Blue abyssite
  • Windurst area: Brown abyssite
  • Jeuno area: Yellow abyssite
  • Northlands area: Purple abyssite
  • If you have the tier 3 abyssite for the zone you're currently in, you can't upgrade the colorful abyssite. (This is good if you're doing a tier 2 VWNM Magian Trial - you won't have to farm another colorful abyssite!)
• Spawning a tier 3 will immediately destroy your tier 3 abyssite!
  • Killing a tier 3 (whether Shadow or True) has a low chance to drop a black abyssite if you don't already have one.
• Spawning Yilbegan, the only tier 4 VWNM, will immediately destroy your black abyssite.
  • Since there is no tier 5, Yilbegan doesn't drop any abyssite.

VWNMs

Bastok area: North Gustaberg, Pashhow Marshlands, North Gustaberg (S), Pashhow Marshlands (S) Tier 1- Clear abyssite Ground Guzzler x4 - Worm Globster x4 - Slime Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Shoggoth - Hecteyes Lamprey Lord - Leech Jinx Ampulla Hirudinea Earring Tier 3- Orange abyssite Blobdingnag - Clot Spawns 6 Septic Boil with the weaponskill Cytokinesis Blobnag Ring, Beguiling Collar, Muculent Ingot, Baby Blobdingnag	San d'Oria area: East Ronfaure, Jugner Forest, East Ronfaure (S), Jugner Forest (S) Tier 1- Clear abyssite Quagmire Pugil x4 - Pugil Sunderclaw x4 - Crab Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Yacumama - Sea Monk Capricornus - Pugil Backlash Torque Fierce Belt Tier 3- Blue abyssite Krabkatoa - Mega-Crab Karka Ring, Acubens Helm, Igneous Barnacle, Krabkatoa Shell	Windurst area: West Sarutabaruta, Meriphataud Mountains, West Sarutabaruta (S), Meriphataud Mountains (S) Tier 1- Clear abyssite Rummager Beetle x4 - Beetle Raker Bee x4 - Bee Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Farruca Fly - Fly Jyeshtha - Scorpion Alert Ring Fatality Belt Tier 3- Brown abyssite Orcus - Antlion Corneus Ring, Bobcat Belt, Kidney Stone, Orcus Mandible
Jeuno area: Rolanberry Fields, Batallia Downs, Sauromugue Champaign, Rolanberry Fields (S), Batallia Downs (S), Sauromugue Champaign (S) Tier 1- Clear abyssite Aither - Elemental Deorc - Elemental Eorthe - Elemental Puretos - Elemental Pruina - Elemental Beorht - Elemental Thunor - Elemental Lacus - Elemental Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Urd - Pixie Skuld - Pixie Choreia Earring Veela Cape Tier 3- Yellow abyssite Verthandi - Pixie Veela Ring, Verthandi's Gem, Ethereal Squama, Eye of Verthandi	Northlands area: Beaucedine Glacier, Xarcabard, Beaucedine Glacier (S), Xarcabard (S) Tier 1- Clear abyssite Gjenganger x4 - Ghost Gorehound x4 - Hound Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Feuerunke - Doomed Erebus - Skeleton Pagondas Earring Nyx Gorget Tier 3- Purple abyssite Lord Ruthven - Vampyr Strigoi Ring, Marching Belt, Befouled Silver, Ruthven's Nail	Crag area: Konschtat Highlands, La Theine Plateau, Tahrongi Canyon Tier 1- Clear abyssite Void Hare x4 - Rabbit Prickly Sheep x4 - Sheep Tier 2- Colorful abyssite Chesma - Coeurl Tammuz - Ram Halting Stole Repelling Collar Tier 3- Grey abyssite Dawon - Tiger Succor Ring, Pelt of Dawon, Leonine Mask
All areas: Tier 4- Black abyssite Yilbegan - Zilant Galdr Ring, Zilant Ring, Agrona's Leggings, Lucky Coin, Scarlet Kadife

Related Links

• June 2010 Version Update