"The Hunt" Question About Elite Marks

Ok so we all know the "billboard" added rewards have a weekly lockout (ie. that you can only get the billboard bonus once a week, but you are still free to hunt as many elite marks as you like and get seals from killing them)...

My question is since there is only 1 elite mark bill issued per week... is there a respawn timer or anything on that mark? Will this just become a zerg like Behemoth/Odin where most players will never see these elite marks because they are not only a rare spawn, but once they pop they get zerged and don't appear again for several days?

If anyone has seen official answers to the above, please link to the source. Otherwise, a dev response would be appreciated.

Thanks!

1 week to find one specific NM really isn't that long of a time.
My only worry is that the bill will expire on me before I even see the NM.

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Originally Posted by Seif

1 week to find one specific NM really isn't that long of a time.
My only worry is that the bill will expire on me before I even see the NM.

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It's not that bad, if the NM respawns after other players kill it on the first day. That is the question.

The issue here is that people will pick up the elite bill and kill the NM within about 20 minutes. But if that's it, just one spawn for 7 days.... it's gunna be rough for most players to fulfill that bill.

That kind of info won't be available till launch, really. We'll just have to wait and see. It could be that the higher ranks spawn less often, or they're just stronger. No real way of knowing yet, though.

Hopefully the spawn will be player-triggered in some way, like walking down a certain path in certain weather will make it spawn or something. That way it can spawn as many times as necessary.

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Originally Posted by Jacost

Hopefully the spawn will be player-triggered in some way, like walking down a certain path in certain weather will make it spawn or something. That way it can spawn as many times as necessary.

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Hmmm... Based on the information in the recent Producer Letter, I'm led to believe this won't be the case. I would think that there would be too much opportunity for exploit if the spawn was player-based. I'm just hoping it's not 1 spawn per 7 days X_X

I just hope there NM for me to hunt

That's all ... I don't want to see hardcore player hunt them down before I even have a chance to do some score and get rewards (Look at Animus Book FATEs, you sitting there somewhere around and saw FATE you want to do it popped up and then you immediately chocobo there as fast as you can but BOOM! FATE complete and I got zero points, wtf moment)

That is the problem with open world contents. You got the quest, know the mob location, rush there? Mob zerged out before you reach there.

So did they say anything about the respawn rate?

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Originally Posted by Altimis

I just hope there NM for me to hunt

That's all ... I don't want to see hardcore player hunt them down before I even have a chance to do some score and get rewards (Look at Animus Book FATEs, you sitting there somewhere around and saw FATE you want to do it popped up and then you immediately chocobo there as fast as you can but BOOM! FATE complete and I got zero points, wtf moment)

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Why didn't you wait at the FATE spawn area?

On another note...I too share concerns regarding the spawn/re-spawn timers of the Elite Marks. They mentioned in the Live Letter that there will be no claiming system. So if I see someone attacking the mark I can come up and get credit (similar to the way FATEs work). If someone kills an Elite Mark they would have to set some kind of spawning system to prevent abuse from Gil Sellers and people looking to get all those yummy alexandrites the first day. minimum to kill. My hope is that the super elite marks have a variable spawn time between 6 - 12 hours to prevent abuse (however this will make farming them a nightmare). I think the best option is for people to make "Hunter LS" and invite as many people as possible in the hopes that these marks will take 15-20 people

ps....why do we still have the ridiculous 1000 char limit

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Originally Posted by Nabian

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Yeah I fear that may be the way it goes. Similar to Behemoth/Odin, if there are no respawns on these elite marks, people will need to create Linkshells to notify as many players as possible when they are up. It's our best chance to take part before the mark gets zerged. Hopefully though there is some sort of respawn timer within the week that the elite mark bill is posted.

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Originally Posted by Nabian

ps....why do we still have the ridiculous 1000 char limit

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No kidding... :(

they will most likely not have that long of a respawn timer.

remember the elite bills we get are for low ranking not as dangerous marks.

while lets say maybe S rank marks have a 24 hour respawn timer, D rank might have 1 hour respawns. (just guesses)

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Originally Posted by Musashidon

while lets say maybe S rank marks have a 24 hour respawn timer, D rank might have 1 hour respawns. (just guesses)

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Interesting point. The respawn time (if there is one) could be based on mark rank (as well as other conditions like weather and such, no doubt). Hopefully we get some sort of respawn timer, even if it comes with a few conditions. Having only 1 spawn per 7 days would be brutal.

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Originally Posted by Nabian

Why didn't you wait at the FATE spawn area?

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Wait for how much though? I've waited once for a fate, 1 hour or so. The most boring activity I've ever done on this game. I doubt one can come up with something more boring than that. You're actually not playing the game, just staying there.

There is a reason why I have only one entry on sightseeing log. Is a feature that encourages to not play the game for a certain period of time and that makes no sense to me.

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Originally Posted by Edli

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Aye... Though sometimes you can luck out and have monsters in the area to kill for your hunting log, or for your atma weapon, or maybe even beastman daily quests... not everyone has this opportunity so you can be stuck sitting there for hours. It's why I've not started that dreaded sightseeing log either. I was really looking forward to that content too, until I heard about the "wait for X day and Y weather" mechanic >_<

I have a question, do daily marks and weekly marks mean that the hunted monster will be the same daily/weekly but you can hunt them as much time as possible?
Like if you see an Elite Mark randomly and help kill it, you can see it again and kill that too for the reward.

Or is it literally that you can only spawn it once a day/week.. kill or no kill, like single maps.

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Originally Posted by DeathFiend

I have a question, do daily marks and weekly marks mean that the hunted monster will be the same daily/weekly but you can hunt them as much time as possible?
Like if you see an Elite Mark randomly and help kill it, you can see it again and kill that too for the reward.

Or is it literally that you can only spawn it once a day/week.. kill or no kill, like single maps.

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you get one specifically for the day and the week. but you can kill any other you run across, the bills are for more casual players who don't have much time and players with more time can farm and look for them and get as many seals as they can get their hands on.

course there is questions of how long the respawn timers are but 1 week is highly doubtful.

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Originally Posted by Musashidon

you get one specifically for the day and the week. but you can kill any other you run across, the bills are for more casual players who don't have much time and players with more time can farm and look for them and get as many seals as they can get their hands on.

course there is questions of how long the respawn timers are but 1 week is highly doubtful.

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That, is my favorite thing that has been announced so far. I'm so glad they finally gave us something that wasn't gated behind some silly lockout timer, even if it is kind of gated behind a timesink. It's very refreshing to be able to continuously work towards something. I can't wait for tomorrow!!!

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Originally Posted by Edli

Wait for how much though? I've waited once for a fate, 1 hour or so. The most boring activity I've ever done on this game. I doubt one can come up with something more boring than that. You're actually not playing the game, just staying there.

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Fortunately, 2.3 is supposed to fix the problem of book fates that currently can take hours to spawn. Fates that have not spawned recently will now become more and more likely to spawn as time passes.

So far I've killed about 25 marks in a hunt pt. Maxed sold and got about 1600 or so myth in just a few hours. 285ish allied seals. The hunt board is crap. You only get 1-3 seals per. And B ranked give 5 seals, A ranked give 20. Along with 80 myth. Easiest myth ever. Better than titan on low roulette. No more mythflox! EVER!!!

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Originally Posted by Qwag

So far I've killed about 25 marks in a hunt pt. Maxed sold and got about 1600 or so myth in just a few hours. 285ish allied seals. The hunt board is crap. You only get 1-3 seals per. And B ranked give 5 seals, A ranked give 20. Along with 80 myth. Easiest myth ever. Better than titan on low roulette. No more mythflox! EVER!!!

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o_O this is exactly what I was hoping it to be.

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Originally Posted by Qwag

So far I've killed about 25 marks in a hunt pt. Maxed sold and got about 1600 or so myth in just a few hours. 285ish allied seals. The hunt board is crap. You only get 1-3 seals per. And B ranked give 5 seals, A ranked give 20. Along with 80 myth. Easiest myth ever. Better than titan on low roulette. No more mythflox! EVER!!!

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I Am SO about this life when I get home from work and all weekend !!

Has anyone found out how you trigger the spawn of S-Rank Mobs?

Let's just take Garlok in Costa del Sol for example.
The hunter is talking about a cavern (which is probably the one named as Garlok's Lair on the map) and that he is sleeping there.
The hunter is also saying something about Torches and Arrows, so I was wondering if I could get him to spawn when I'm shooting Flaming Arrows with my Bard inside the cavern, but nothing happened.
I didn't get any other people to help me with this and I'm not even sure if this is right or wrong, but since the S-Rank mobs information read like some kind of riddle, I thought that you need to trigger or do something specific so that they spawn.

Was wondering if anyone has already managed to spawn/slay a S-Rank mob~

I don't know if there really are spawn condition or trigger. It may just be random.

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Originally Posted by Kuraran

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Now, see, if this were a Zelda game, I'd suggest shooting through a lit torch to light the unlit torches, possibly in a specific order, and timed. However, since this is Final Fantasy, I'd say you'd have to go on some sort of fetch-quest to get special arrows to light the torches. But that's in a normal FF game. So, considering this is neither Zelda nor a normal FF...I'd have to say it probably requires special triggers that are broken due to the patch not getting the proper QA before it was pushed out the door.

Would be sad if those triggers were broken though.
There is one S-Rank mob where I'd say that it's pretty obvious what you need to do:

Name: Nunyunuwi
Location: Southern Thanalan somewhere near Qarn probably
Scholar-Hunter description:
The large population of golems in southern Thanalan is ascribed by mainstream historians to the mages of Belah'dia, who made the sturdy guardian for the protection of the Temple of Qarn.
Among these sad remnants of a civilization lost to time, Nunyunuwi stands out for his exceptional size and stealth.
At rest, he vanishes into the landscape of tors and boulders. Only a sizable battle will rouse the stone soldier to his ancient duty: to fight to the death.

There is a Fate spawning near the entrance of Qarn, where you have to kill several Golems to complete it if I'm not mistaken, so I think the spawn-trigger will have something to do with that and probably the amount of players participating in the Fate.
But that's just a speculation from my side >_<

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Originally Posted by Qwag

So far I've killed about 25 marks in a hunt pt. Maxed sold and got about 1600 or so myth in just a few hours. 285ish allied seals. The hunt board is crap. You only get 1-3 seals per. And B ranked give 5 seals, A ranked give 20. Along with 80 myth. Easiest myth ever. Better than titan on low roulette. No more mythflox! EVER!!!

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So you can for example just kill Naul over and over again and keep getting allied seals even if your mark is already done for the week?

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Originally Posted by zPanda

So you can for example just kill Naul over and over again and keep getting allied seals even if your mark is already done for the week?

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It would give you only the normal kill reward, not the bonus from your GC

Yeah, but naul is only rank B, so worth 5 seals, and naul is heavily camped. Best to have 8 ppl running all over everywhere searching for B's and A's.

The Garlok spawns near Costa because of a certain lala.

Idk about the riddles after killing 9 S rank it seems to spawn randomly in its window regardless of what I did. Also seeing that 5 of them I killed back to back almost just seemed to reassure me that the conditions mean nothing...

Hi can u inv me in a hunt ls? Pgn Sir Sif