Guide to Item of the Week Farming

Background
Every week, Nicholas the Traveler requests a different item in exchange for Gifts of the Traveler. These items of the week end up being very valuable for a short period, since the gifts can usually be sold for – (and opening the gifts yields valuable items). Veteran players usually have no trouble farming the item using advanced (although standard) builds and they have access to the ideal farming locations. This guide, however, is designed to help every player of the game, including the relatively new player, who has fewer skills and might need to unlock the farming area.

Solo farming builds
These solo builds (from PvX) can be used every week to farm Nick's request item. (Rare exceptions will be noted in the guide.)


 * : 55 monk
 * : Terra tank
 * Any: Spirit spammer
 * : 130 dervish

Summary



 * Item: Spiritwood Planks
 * Dropped by: Artisan list, Rare Material Traders, and Category:Drops spiritwood
 * Found in: ✅

Farming locations
There are 4 ways to farm for Spiritwood:
 * Buy from the rare material traders (who are likely sold out).
 * Craft them for 5, 10, and 100 at an Artisan
 * Purchase them from other players.
 * Farm Island Guardians including Sourgewind (very slow)
 * See: Farming guardian moss
 * Farm Dragon Lilies in Haijun Lagoon

Market prices
With demand for dust normally high, prices have sky-rocketed, so it might turn out to be more cost effective to sell dust to other players and buy spiritwood.

These are the likely costs if you are purchasing all materials from players:
 * Crafting costs &mdash; 400 per plank from scratch
 * Dust is going for 6.5k/stack = 260 for 10
 * Wood trades at roughly 2k/stack = 40 for 5
 * Planks always cost 100 gold to craft.

These are the likely costs if you already own the materials:
 * Net costs by selling dust and buying spiritwood &mdash; 150 (or up to 100 profit)
 * Sell dust for 260
 * Sell wood for 40
 * Buy planks from players at 200–450