What am I Missing?

[Kirika-]

Ah, OK I see the issue.... it's one of the wonky node sets.

That Ephemeral node set was added/moved after a rework on Ephemeral nodes in general, so its a bit different.
The reason it is "wrong" on the Wiki is because the Wiki shows the old pre-rework location.

In it's case now, the node is actually three nodes, of which only one is spawned at a time.
As in, once one spawns, you must gather from it in order to have the second spawn, and gather from it for the third to spawn, and then repeat until the timer has expired.


The general gathering location is shown via your Gathering Log, under the L56-60 Quarrying tab.




In this one's case, it is its own "triangle".
The spawn locations are:
The Churning Mist - The Lost Landlord

• 19.4 x 36.4
• 17.7 x 17.3
• 23.5 x 5.7

If you come into the zone while it is already spawned, or are above one of the spawn point but it's not showing during it's spawn timer window, then check each of the above locations to find the "#1" point to start the gathering cycle.



If I remember correctly for this node's collectables, you get Fire crystals and clusters when reducing the collectables with "Fire" in their name and Water crystals/clusters from the Radiant Astral Moraine (along with the Aethersands assigned to the specific collectable)
And FYI on reducing, you will always get a number of Crystals, but you only get Clusters if the collectable rating is high enough and it doesn't product Aethersand (Aethersand and Cluster take the same loot slot, so its one or the other, never both - EDIT: With the exception of newer content collectables)
So, if you are after Crystals and don't care about Aethersand, then work the collectable rating to around 70~80%, that way you are less likely to get a Aethersand proc and more likely to get the most Crystals and some Clusters.