Records of Eminence + Long NM Respawn Times = Yuck

[Zarchery]

If I remember right it's 21-24 hours. And then it has to be found and killed which makes keeping track of ToDs that you don't show up to each time pretty hard. But yeah getting a bunch of 21-24 hour guys easily is luck. Possibly no one on your server caring too

FFXIClopedia and BGWiki say 72 hours. You're probably right that nobody cared enough to hunt most of these guys so I didn't have to camp for long. Bloodsucker people probably don't really care about either just kill him cause he gets in the way when folks doing XP, which is what makes it so tough.

[dasva]

Yeah. Like on my server I've definitely found people camping some of them which makes it a lot harder. D cloth from KA is worth a bit if you know the ToD. And I actually found people camping lumberjack against me uggg

[Hvinire]

We spoke with the Records of Eminence Lead who confirmed that we don't have any plans to change NM re-pop timers.

We understand that it might be difficult to work with all the timers if a player is trying to complete each objective back to back, but the system was designed more as a fun achievement for players while they're out doing other activities, and happen to run into NMs.

[Sapphire]

We understand that it might be difficult to work with all the timers if a player is trying to complete each objective back to back, but the system was designed more as a fun achievement for players while they're out doing other activities, and happen to run into NMs.

Yeah... that's not how players roll...

[noirin]

We spoke with the Records of Eminence Lead who confirmed that we don't have any plans to change NM re-pop timers.

We understand that it might be difficult to work with all the timers if a player is trying to complete each objective back to back, but the system was designed more as a fun achievement for players while they're out doing other activities, and happen to run into NMs.

A few of these Eminence pages interfere with certain Empy trial paths though.
And certain ones, such as King Arthro, are just silly. he's clearly out of the way, and since he drops AF upgrade components, i have yet to see him up anytime i've gone out to see him as of late.

[Rubicant82]

We spoke with the Records of Eminence Lead who confirmed that we don't have any plans to change NM re-pop timers.

We understand that it might be difficult to work with all the timers if a player is trying to complete each objective back to back, but the system was designed more as a fun achievement for players while they're out doing other activities, and happen to run into NMs.

If these are meant to be a "fun achievement" then maybe, just maybe it would be a good idea to make the NM RoE objectives not count towards the 15 total objectives we can have active. This way if you happen upon a NM you can just kill it and get your objective complete, just like an achievement.
I spent several hours trying to get a lottery spawn NM to pop for one objective just because I wanted to get it done, but after 6 hours of wasting my time I left the area do to something else.
If you are not going to adjust the spawn time, maybe take out the lottery spawn stuff and just make the NMs all timed spawn, that way at lease player have a chance of wondering across them.

[dasva]

Except you are never going to just run into some of these nms. Seroiusly Dosetu has been in the game for like what 10 years and with hundreds if not thousands of hours I've spent leveling in or running thru qufim I'd never seen him

[Zarchery]

I'm trying to conceive of an instance in which you just stumble upon, say, Thousandarm Deshglesh or Carnero, while doing other things. Both are lottery spawns, the former from orcs in Gheslba Outpost and the latter from sheep in the Vomp Hill area of South Gustaberg. So unless you're regularly killing monsters in a very specific area of two zones that nobody ever goes through, you're not gonna see these guys. Some of the timed spawn NMs are the kind you would bump into. I know I've had it happen that I stumble upon random NMs who were just sort of hanging out, but it was never anything on the Records of Eminence list.

[Lithera]

Or jaggedy eared jack he's in an area of ronfaure that most people by the time you work your way down to where he spawns you are not going to be targeting rabbits.

[Zarchery]

I think that, really, the only NMs on this list I ever stumbled upon were Roc (I was trying to get to present Garlaige via past Garlaige) and Teporingo (I was doing THF AF quest in Dangruf).