Wisp Events: What You Need To Know & Do

What is a Wisp event? 

Read the long story here. Basically you release wisps from the Wisp Mama, and try to catch the wisps for event flowers.

When you click on "Try Capture", they will either escape and fly away, or get caught and give you a 10% flower of its rarity.

Source: Starlight Helpshift

Catching Wisps

1) Catch rates are predetermined

Unlike fireflies, the catch rate of wisps are set once they are released from the Wisp Mama. This means that once the wisp is spawned, the game already decided if the wisp is catchable or not. If the game sets the wisp to be uncatchable, there is nothing you can do to change that, except using a decoration ability or Gold netting them.

Therefore, you can debunk the many rumors about wisps that are floating around. You do not get a higher chance of catching wisps if they close their eyes. There is no need to watch them do a tribal dance and catch it at its lowest, or when it swings around. The catch rate does not increase if you hoard an army of wisps in your forest, it only messes things up instead.

If you are interested, search for videos on Youtube which show that wisps are predetermined.


2) Don't rush to catch them immediately after they spawn!

After you release the wisps, don't be in a hurry to tap and grab them all!

Know that at least 1 wisp is catchable with every spawn. Runaway may be evil, but they are not that insane to make none of the wisps catchable. (So far I have yet to encounter a zero harvest, and I better not get one!)

Since you will always end up with at least 1 catch per batch, catch the wisps in order of rarity. Get rid of the Common, Uncommon and the Rare wisps first. If all or most of these wisps escape, then there is a higher chance that the last Epic or Legendary wisps can be caught for free. If all the wisps in front get caught easily, then there is a very high chance that the last Legendary wisp that you are aiming for will escape. Narrow down your odds first, then decide if you want to go ahead and risk catching it for free, or buy a golden net to catch it, or leave it alone until you can use your decoration abilities on it.


3) Work backwards

As usual, concentrate on the rarest and hardest moth first. This does not mean that you simply swing at all the Legendary wisps you see, but rather you should save your resources and decoration abilities for the last moth first, then work backwards as you progress in the event.

If you have a Legendary wisp that you think will most likely escape, leave a couple of them floating around in your forest. They won't go anywhere until you attempt to catch it anyway. You can then use your deco duplicating/capturing abilities on it immediately when the cooldown is fully recharged.


4) Leaving wisps behind

As you leave several wisps alone to float around in your forest, you need to remember which are the older wisps and pay attention to identify the fresh ones that are released. So if you hoard too many of them it may get quite messy.

One good feature about wisps is that they actually shrink in size over time. Older wisps will be slightly smaller than the new ones.

Screenshot by Tate Morin, Flutter DYNASTY

If you reload the game after releasing wisps, they will have incomplete labels when you click on them. Fresh wisps will always be labelled properly. (A game update in v1.33 changed the way how wisp labels are displayed.)

Fresh Wisps are properly labelled with their rarity & difficulty 

Wisps that are left behind will lose their labels once the game is reloaded

Too many wisps in your forest can obstruct your gameplay. If a wisp is blocking a moth and you cannot harvest honeydew coins, fly another moth onto the respective branch to displace the resting moth, or search for it in your inventory and click on the 'Find' button to make the moth take flight and give you the coins automatically.


5) Decoration abilities 

M.V.P deco abilities will be the ones that allow you to catch a wisp without fail, or duplicate a wisp, or hurry the wisp mama. And of course, the ever so popular egg layers.

Do note that if you duplicate a wisp, you only copy its rarity and not its catch rate. The catch rate is randomly re-assigned as the wisp is cloned. This means that even if the original wisp is a catchable one, the cloned copy may or may not be catchable. Similarly, if you clone from a wisp that is uncatchable, it does not mean that the cloned copy will definitely be uncatchable too.

Like their parent wisps, the catch fate of the duplicated wisps are predetermined when they are cloned. If the game sets them to be uncatchable, they will escape without a golden net.


How to complete the event without spending real money?

1) Know how the game works

Knowing your enemy is half the battle won. If you had skipped to this segment immediately when you arrive on this page, go back and read the above section on Catching Wisps.


2) Set alarms

Morph into a robot and keep coming back into the game to release wisps when the Mama is ready.


3) Keep making pollen

To complete the entire set, you need to hatch and grow 5 copies of each moth, then fuse them together and feed them with pollen till they hit max Level 5. So naturally you will be needing a whole ton of pollen.

Keep making pollen till you burst your pollen capacity even if your creatures are not ready for feeding yet, so when they finally emerge you can make them feast immediately.

If you are low on honeydew, I suggest that you concentrate on using the cheapest pollen option only, they accumulate pretty fast every 30 seconds and you won’t blow a hole in your pocket, instead all you need is some patience and time.

Click here if you want to know how much pollen you need to level up event moths.

4) Maintain diligence, even during non event periods

If you do not have enough time to spend on Wisp events, some Glowbucks expenditure will be needed to speed up your progress. In order not to spend real cash, you will have to farm Glowbucks daily, by collecting Florida Tree Snail rewards, completing offers, opening gifts, catching petals, completing missions from Michelle, achieving Goals in the Flutterpedia etc.


5) Be careful on how you spend Glowbucks

Before you buy anything, always compare the prices first. Check if it is cheaper to buy a Golden net / buy flowers directly from the shop / pay to lay an egg / hurry an ability with Glowbucks. That way, you can make the most of what you have.


Hopefully this helps you along in your Starlight Wisp event journey~! If you have other tips, or if I missed out anything, do share and I’ll try to revise this guide accordingly.


Happy Starry Fluttering~! ♥

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