Time to reduce the respawn timers of land kings

There is absolutely NO credible reason that the respawn timers for land kings need to be at 21-24 hours. Not then, not now, and certainly not in the future. I could care less that the Black Belt is the single-best equipment a Monk can have, There is no logical purpose for imposing artificial competition for the items required for the quest (unless you're one of those "hardcore" trolls who make up any excuse for anything that keep non-"hardcore" types from getting these quests done).

The KSNM99 alternative, I'm sorry to say, doesn't cut it. Making the drop rate less than 90% renders it a half-measure and a cowardly display of pandering to career endgamers who fear that their cottage industry, extortion of those who need the items, are under threat.

What needs to happen, and soon, is the reduction of NQ land kings' respawn time to no more than 4 hours. Apart from providing people from every region more chances at the Black Belt quest items, it strips HNM shells of their power to charge outrageous prices for the chance to lot for them.

Hope this thread doesn't get trolled. I fully support this. The respawn timers is the reason I never went after mt BB.

I absolutely agree. This is the single most difficult quest to accomplish if you don't follow greedy HNM shells or have the time to camp 21-24 hour spawns. No-one does KS99's anymore either. I have seen too many Monk's offer over 2 mil gil per BB item to HNM's only to be denied the item. They usually "give" it to level 15 MNK's who will never ever level the job. We can first thank SE for allowing this to happen, second we can thank the greedy HNM shells for exploiting what SE made easy for them, third we can thank SE and Abyssea for taking the desire to even try out of the equation.

I would like to see each item made available to Monks only via a series of quests.

Minimum level to aquire each item is the same as for the quest Beating around the Bushin - 71

Must have completed Brown Belt Quest, not bought.

Items received from the various quests are to be rare/ex - cannot be bought, traded or bazaared, only traded to the Tenshodo door or some other location to receive the reward of Wyrm Beard, Tongue or Egg.

Or, have us kill NM's for a pop item (again rare/ex) to force spawn a dragon, a behemoth and a tortoise, and make the drop 100%. We might need help to kill perhaps, but at least we can invite people we trust.

Come on SE, give MNK a break. Thanks

Agreed on the First post, Not on the third post. I can see exploiters choking the pop item accessability.

they already said NM repop time outside abyssea will get a fix...we can only hope kings are too

As someone who got Black Belt, I'm split on this. Ill agree that the timers on these NMs are retarded, but at the same time, they shouldn't be too easy to get. There is currently not a single belt that compares to Black Belt. Part of the reason they did KS99 NMs is so that people didn't have to camp kings to get them. If they don't reduce the timers on these NMs, they should at least increase the drop rate of these items on the 99KSNMs.

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Originally Posted by Lushipur

they already said NM repop time outside abyssea will get a fix...we can only hope kings are too

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They also said they had no plans to adjust the NM's for the Black Belt, however was thinking of replacing it with a new tier.

If you look in the new "roadmap" they specifically mention repop time reduction and seperately NMs adjustments. There's no real indication that means kings/HNMs will have lower respawn timers. At this point though there is no HNM outside of King Behemoth that is really worth camping. SE should still lower the repop timers by a significant amount. It's about time they fixed that system.

Would be nice to see the proverbial nail in the coffin on those. If for no other reason than to show SE never wants to make a bad system like that again.

What if all Kings repops were halved?

21-24 becomes 10-12 and 48-72 becomes 24-36 ?

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Originally Posted by Bulrogg

What if all Kings repops were halved?

21-24 becomes 10-12 and 48-72 becomes 24-36 ?

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Linkshells still bot the claims, and small groups have no chance.