Best way to farm Dawnborne Aethersand?

All I'm getting is Duskborne Aethersand

What would be better to farm this sand

7/8?

or 5/8 while getting getting 2 black soil/clary sage?

some feedback would be awesome!

I hate farming these but I had most luck with 5/8, 6/8 with 7/8, 8/8 i was getting leaf and land etc with occassional Dawn. Unfortunately it is random but like I say when I HAVE to I go with 5/8, 6/8.

5/8 works pretty well.

Best rotation I've found for getting there is to open with Impulsive x2.
-if no procs, just collect and get some crystals
-if either procs, SM > UC > Impulsive > SM > UC > Methodical

Some will suggest only doing the hidden items, but in my experience the major difference is that they give more crystals/clusters.

I have been farming these of late too. I need 72 of them myself so as can guess it is taking a long time.

I generally use this method but you need 600+ GP to do it...

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Some useful information can be gained here. Which sands you get is RNG, there is not really a huge amount you can do about that aka there is no way to only get dawnbornes from reductions.

I personally tend to farm them in the hinterlands because it is a good place to farm blue/red gathering scrips in between node spawning for botany and mining. I do the botany ephemeral node between 4am to 8am then switch to mining ephemeral node on same map from 8am to 12am right after, then I start fishing loosetonges for red scrips between 1pm to 8pm then off to farm tiny axolotl for more red scrips between 9pm to 12am. After that it is just 4 hours ET before botany ephemeral node in hinterlands spawns again and I will tend to spend that time farming illuminati perch for blue scrip. IF do not need red scrip capping you could just go from zone to zone non-stop between nodes using the link I gave as reference for which spawns and when.

Sometimes I get around half dozen to a dozen dawnbornes per 24 hours of ET but most of time I will get just a couple plus some landbornes, leafbornes and duskbornes. I just store those for now unless I need gil or wish to sell them to buy additional dawnborne ones. To be honest each zone is as good as another and you do not have to do it at hinterlands, that's just my preference but it depends on what cluster types you find more useful too. Hinterlands gives earth and fire clusters along with the sands while sea of clouds for example gives lightning and wind type clusters along with the sands. If have more use for water and ice clusters you could just do fishing reductions and different zones with different fish gives different types too. The link I gave above tells you which zones and DoL types give what clusters types.

Fishing Pteranodons.