Bronze, Silver and Gold eggs for Hatching-Tide

So my friends and I logged in and completed the first stage of the quest line. The Dreamers talk about finding eggs about the world but don't say if its dungeons/fates/randomly placed. We have run around and can't see any in the zones. If anyone could guide us in how we are meant to find them it would be appreciated.

Can't find them either.

yeah they Should of made this alot clearer
But i expected this kinda crap from this games dev's since i know them far to well.

Anyway http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...Hatching_tide/
4 quests, theres a chance whatever you need to do is not up yet.

I was wondering if that might be the case, if it is its really not very clear that that section of the event is not up yet.

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Originally Posted by prymortal

yeah they Should of made this alot clearer
But i expected this kinda crap from this games dev's since i know them far to well.

Anyway http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...Hatching_tide/
4 quests, theres a chance whatever you need to do is not up yet.

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No, we want to know what to look for to find the hidden eggs "in the fields", not complete part 2 of the quest. All it says is they are hidden and need to be retrieved but no real information about what to do next. I don't need to be hand held but just a slight nudge to know whether or not to expect fates... random hidey holes... monster slaying or what. I've ran through several "lowbie" zones and found nothing so far. Tried killing random monsters as well. Even popped my head into some random fates. Nothing, nada.

The mob you need to kill is called Coddled Spriggan. Level 5 mob, people are finding them randomly in the world. Zone doesn't seem to matter as long as there's mobs.

That said, I spent an hour wandering La Noscea and only found one my self. Silver egg dropped, had a grade 3 glamour prism in it.

A specific enemy in random zones with a low spawn chance, sounds great...

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Originally Posted by Tulcaondo

A specific enemy in random zones with a low spawn chance, sounds great...

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This sound familiar........................................................

I've found 2 of them so far...saving to combine them into a gold egg. bronze egg had grade 2 cloth prism in it so hopefully it's not all prisms.

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Originally Posted by Phenidate

The mob you need to kill is called Coddled Spriggan. Level 5 mob, people are finding them randomly in the world. Zone doesn't seem to matter as long as there's mobs.

That said, I spent an hour wandering La Noscea and only found one my self. Silver egg dropped, had a grade 3 glamour prism in it.

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Do you have to wear the egg hat to see the spriggans?

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Originally Posted by Gardes

Do you have to wear the egg hat to see the spriggans?

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Nope, you don't need it.

Doesn't it just, when you consider you need so many 100 bronze to make one gold this seems great. I'd rather have had hidden around specific locations not marked, similar to a hunting log stype.

Be happy... It's not FATE based...
And it's not just run from point A to point B and just talk to people...
It's something you can complete while doing other stuff. No fixed spots to camp.

But maybe it would have been better if they just gave you the rewards, or pointed you exactly where to go.....

Thanks for the info in this thread folks; I was wondering the same thing. I don't mind hunting spriggans, just wish we'd been told that that was what we needed to do. I've been hunting for visible items in the field and would have simply run past any spriggans.

I don't know about you but I am getting instant ques atm for dungeons so when you say doing other things its a little misguided. And i'm not asking for loot just given to me. I would like a better idea of how to find the eggs in the quests though.

I just found one while doing my lvl 45 WHM quest at the last part in North Thanalan just right above Ceruleum.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

Thanks for the info in this thread folks; I was wondering the same thing. I don't mind hunting spriggans, just wish we'd been told that that was what we needed to do. I've been hunting for visible items in the field and would have simply run past any spriggans.

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I actually went around for about five minutes looking and killing random mobs but then I figured it must have something to do with spriggans since they're the ones in the quest.

Since my last post, I've found zero eggs. I give up. Tired of running around checking nooks and crannies of maps and basically wasting time. Glad I could point people in the right direction, have fun with that.

I hope they dramatically increase the number of field spriggans with each successive quest phase. I get that it's supposed to be an egg hunt, but they seem a little too rare.

But then again if all of the eggs (Bronze/Silver/Gold) only contain Glamour Prisms, I wouldn't even search for them.

Any more info on this?

Anyone know if gold eggs drop anything good? not sure if it's worth wasting time on this.

This actually sounds cute, but way too time consuming because of what I assume is a low spawn rate. SE really needs to look into the spawn rate of... like... everything.

People complained about wanting open-world rare mobs and long-term grindy quests. The egg spriggans are among the former - they have specific spawn points (there must be a list by now), long respawns (1 hour minimum), and most of the time reward garbage.

I'm a little bitter over that 4-hour gold egg turning into a G5 leatherworking crystal.

I was ready to do some world searching until I read this thread. So I gave up and went to do my daily quests.

Found a spriggan hiding behind a steel wagon on top of the hill at Southern Thanalan (19,25). Dropped a silver egg.

I killed 2 after the death of one of them fate spawned with spriggans, all dropped bronze eggs.

It's like you guys never went Hatching Tide egg hunting before.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

It's like you guys never went Hatching Tide egg hunting before.

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I haven't, actually.

Unless your post was meant to be sarcastic, which is difficult to discern from plain text.

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Originally Posted by Astralos

I haven't, actually.

Unless your post was meant to be sarcastic, which is difficult to discern from plain text.

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My sarcasm indicator indicates that he was.

They really need to up the spawn rate on these spriggans. Every two or so hours is too long. Same with the spawn rate on Eggcelsior and What's Yours Is Mine

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...our_eggs_from/

People have given a lot of location in there

A friend of mine opened his 10 Bronze Eggs and got 1 HQ Apkallu Egg, 3 Silver Allagan Pieces, and the rest were various Grade 1 glamour prisms.

If the Gold Egg really does have a chance to give a Spriggan Cap, that'll be the only thing motivating me to do the hunt. I don't need or want prisms.

Ugh, I saw a Coddled Spriggan in Outer La Noscea while doing Beastman quests but I didn't bother to kill it since I figured it was some strange quest-related mob >_> F-me, I guess.

I ran into one of the fates by accident in Bentbranch Meadows. x15 y25.

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According to reddit thread, in some cases when a coddled spriggan is killed a fate spawns which have a lot of coddled spriggans that you can farm for eggs...

Here's a reddit topic discussing locations of coddled spriggans. http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...e_coordinates/

The town vers of this event was also confusing. I'm jotting a brief sum up of it here. Correct me and I'll fix later if I get anything wrong.

Pick up the Event from a quest giver in one of the the three cities. Get your free lvl 10 Pristine Egg Cap (a hat with stats) from npc close by. If you are lvl 20 or above you should buy the lvl 20 Vibrant Egg Cap (hat w/ stats).

Go to Gridania (how will this work for those low levels in Limsa who have not advanced the quest line??? *frowns*). Go to old Gridania the amphitheater. Blab with quest giver Jihli. If you are level 20 or above you want to wear the (20) Vibrant just because there are so many who are wearing the free (10) Pristine. Yell for party (not shout because that reaches the entire world which is pointless but yell is just the town you are in).

Party up with only one person. The other person has to be wearing the opposite hat of what you are. If you are Vibrant they must be Pristine. There are other hats and rings. Rings do nothing for the event. Other hats do nothing at this time.

Go to the Yellow gate. Inside the city not outside (that confused me I was outside looking for stuff). Just inside Yellow gate will be two glowing baskets and npc only you can see. One called Vibrant one called Pristine. Advance quest with npc. Pick up the egg that matches your hat. Carry it back to the amphitheater. If the Sprig stops you go back and get the egg again. Hint: go the long way around there is no getting past the Spriggins.

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In my case I tried to do the event again with another person and the eggs didn't appear for me to pick up but they did appear for the other person. Still trying to figure out what up with that. I wore Vibrant Egg Cap both times.

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/say is within a small radial distance around you (usually about 25 yalms)
/yell covers a larger distance
/shout reaches everyone in the zone
/tell (name) reaches a specific person privately
/linkshell# talks to those in your linkshell

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quote from Acelin link quote

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Originally Posted by JemC

(how will this work for those low levels in Limsa who have not advanced the quest line??? *frowns*)

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Welcome to seasonal events. There's no guarantee you'll be able to do everything.

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Originally Posted by JemC

Shout for party (not yell because that reaches the entire world which is pointless but shout is just the town you are in).

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Nothing reaches the entire world. Shout covers the entire zone you're in (e.g., Old Gridania, but not New Gridania). Yell is just say with a larger radius.

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Originally Posted by JemC

In my case I tried to do the event again with another person and the eggs didn't appear for me to pick up but they did appear for the other person. Still trying to figure out what up with that.

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These are individual quests, and they're not repeatable. You've done the quest, so it's not going to activate for you again. I'm pretty sure the only part that requires a partner is actually speaking to the NPC. Once you've both done that (with the right hats), I think you could just drop party and continue solo.

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These are individual quests, and they're not repeatable. You've done the quest, so it's not going to activate for you again. I'm pretty sure the only part that requires a partner is actually speaking to the NPC. Once you've both done that (with the right hats), I think you could just drop party and continue solo.

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I tried it with another person I knew instead of a stranger and he confirmed he cannot get the quest again. So you can help someone by partying up with them but you can only do this once. Which means someone out there helped me the first time I ran it even though he couldn't do the quest twice. That's friendly.


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Pics to help with the town event:

http://s25.postimg.org/cfenvjn63/egg...c_starters.jpg
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http://s25.postimg.org/5dgq9cjkb/map_egg_event.jpg
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Originally Posted by Bixby

Welcome to seasonal events. There's no guarantee you'll be able to do everything.

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Personally I feel seasonal events should be accessible by everyone, what they have here is pretty exclusionary for all but a small handful of people who are willing to waste time for rare spawns to pop, FF11 says hello.

I've seen several bots farming the pop locations already, its really quite sad.

Found a spriggan where kobold dailies are near where you soothe the baby bombs, dropped silver egg.
As much as I want to open it, I wanna find out what gold have inside