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The two enemies that drop Twilight Shards are Gamblers and Dusk Nobodies. Gamblers have a 12% chance of dropping a Shard and Dusks have a 10% chance.
The best place to farm for your Shards is in Port Royal, specifically the Treasure Heap area where you fought Captain Barbarossa.
Two waves of three Gamblers appear here and it’s easy to run two rooms away to reset them for farming.
You can also fight a few Gamblers in Yen Sid’s Tower in Twilight Town, but only four appear in one of the ascending rooms and are harder to reset.
Port Royal is your best bet for consistent Gamblers and their shards.
You’ll need 26 Twilight Shards to create one of everything via synthesis that requires them.
Tip: Remember to equip as many Lucky Lucky abilities as possible to increase that drop rate!
All About Gamblers and Dusks
The Gambler Nobody.
Gambler Nobodies are all about games.
They know when to hold them, when to walk away, and when to run.
Sora can play two Reaction Command ‘games’ with the Gamblers: Stop Dice and Begin Game.
Stop Dice: When a Gambler rolls one of its oversized dice at you, you can use a Reaction Command to roll the dice. Roll it right and you’ll get a few additional items, get it wrong and Sora gets turned into a die himself for a while, unable to do much of anything.
Begin Game: When you catch this Reaction Command, Sora’s Command Menu will start rotating through Xs and Os.
If you can catch enough of the Os, you’ll get a few items as a reward, though catching even one X will turn Sora into a card for a while, rendering him unable to do anything other than weakly flap around.
Defeating Gamblers is easy so long as you don’t play their games. It might be tempting, but if you’re out to farm them then it’s easiest to just ignore all Reaction Commands and just bonk them with aerial attacks.
Gamblers don’t have much HP or defense, so they shouldn’t be too much of a problem at any level.
Tip: Having a persistent summon out, such as Genie or Stitch, prevents Sora from being turned into a card or die.
Dusk Nobodies can be found all over, but are easiest to farm in Yen Sid’s Tower in Twilight Town.
What Are Twilight Shards Used For?
The Star Charm is one of the better accessories
Twilight Shards are used to create the following items via synthesis:
Mythril Shard
Mythril Stone
Moon Amulet
Star Charm
Save the Queen
Save the Queen+
The Mythril Shards and Stones are vital ingredients in other more powerful item recipes. So it could be worth farming twilight shards just to create more Mythril items.
The Moon and Star Amulets are accessories that boost Strength and Magic quite a bit. Might be worthwhile, but there are other good accessories to look into.
Then finally, Save the Queen and its upgraded version are Donald’s best weapons in KH2.5, hands-down.
So Twilight Shards are an integral part of some of the best gear in the game and well worth rolling the dice to get as many as you can.
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