"Bonus Light" windows to level your Novus to Nexus

[Andrens]

Turn 4 of coil now

[Drako]

It'd be nice to know if people are doing other dungeons/activities before they are experiencing this "bonus". It would be interesting if you are simply receiving a boost because you did some other kind of activity, prior to this, and receiving a temporary buff. It still seems more like some kind of a fatigue system. Has anyone went straight into a HM without doing anything else, for several days, to see if it gives a better bonus then usual. Or is it possible that the lights are just increasing at a specific time. If you get that bonus on a HM primal, maybe quickly try a Expert, or ST and see if you get the higher bonus as well. ST being Newborn. It almost sounds like what others have stated. That after a certain amount of time, perhaps some kind of a reset period, you get a big rested bonus-esq increase. That theory seems to be more in line with what is stated in the patch notes. If you read it plainly, it simply says it increases after a certain amount of time has passed. Time being the only factor, not instances. So if your under this effect it should be in effect in any instance not just certain ones. But depending on how brief this bonus period is, it could seem to some, that it only is working in certain instances. Well that's likely because they got the bonus, noticed it then tried a few raids until it wore off, then was like well that must mean it only works in these raids at this time. But in reality the bonus/buff wore off. If this is what truely is happening, then you clearly shouldn't stop grinding dungeons/primals/coils until the bonus stops.

[Alukah]

I haven't done any other content today and I got bright light from T4, same as the peeps above. It seems to be the same for everyone within the 2 hours window.

[TimeDilation]

It strictly seems like a bonus window with a 2 hour block chosen randomly. In my case for about 8 hours of farming, me and my friends been searching for these bonus blocks every two hours within the primal HM instances, which it self confirms that prior-activity doesn't affect your reward.
It's not only me and few other people who are converging into this "bonus window" theory, there are a lot of people contributing their information through reddit and BG forums. I'd like to think that simple answer is always the best answer.

[SulwynCaliope]

The bonus is time based. As in every two hours a dungeon is picked to be buffed across all servers. It's not affected at all by what players do as far as I know. I can log in and run straight into a dungeon with a bonus without having done anything to activate it.

[Sessurea]

Did t4 and it gave bright? Is that even boosted?

[SulwynCaliope]

Did t4 and it gave bright? Is that even boosted?

Yes it is boosted. It normally gives gentle. I just had this discussion with 2 of my fc mates. They were insisting it gave bright normally. <.<;

[WellFooled]

Hey, no info to contribute atm, but I just wanted to thank you for the helpful information!

[TimeDilation]

I'd probably wanna shoot my self doing only cape westwind over and over again... at least with primals there's a chance to get something to desynth :P

[Brine_Gildchaff]

So I hate to burst your bubbles, but it's looking more and more like the bonus phase is NOT predictable in any way, save that each of a set of "categories" will have one. In fact, there can be multiple bonuses in a category; Ifrit and Garuda HM last night were BOTH giving bright at the same time slot for an extended period of time. So I think the intent of Square was for players to network and spread out to find out "who's giving extra light now?"