Let's talk about Hunts - a detailed rundown of their assumed mechanics

[Steve_UK]

Still no sign of Nunyuniwi on Mateus server. Last time it spawned was Friday morning, around 2.30am (October 3rd, 2014).

Sometime's it sucks being on a low populated server i really think they should fix this, so it has a chance to spawn per fate, not can spawn with large amount's of people. >_> as this is unfair on the low populated servers.

Bleh moan over. 11 hour's till our next s rank window opens!

Straight after posting this, i actually decided to try something really random. (i was shouting in all A spawn rank locations) and nuny suddenly appeared. Maybe it does not expect a 'battle' but a 'shout' (which is a large area)? This is no way confirmed, and we also had ALOT of people fate grinding as i pursueded my WHOLE linkshell to come (around 60 players), they was fating with no luck, so i shouted at a certain location and thou big stone monster shall appear!

I will try and test this on other windows, but thank god he spawned.

[faq]

Straight after posting this, i actually decided to try something really random. (i was shouting in all A spawn rank locations) and nuny suddenly appeared. Maybe it does not expect a 'battle' but a 'shout' (which is a large area)? This is no way confirmed, and we also had ALOT of people fate grinding as i pursueded my WHOLE linkshell to come (around 60 players), they was fating with no luck, so i shouted at a certain location and thou big stone monster shall appear!

I will try and test this on other windows, but thank god he spawned.

Gilgamesh still no spawn since maintenance. We're one of the higher pop and more active servers and have taken all online hunters to FATE grind in ST multiple times in the past 100 hours with no spawn.

[Kuraran]

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Did all these people do different Fates at first and had to join up for some Fates because no others were available?
One of the first theories we ever had for Nunyunuwi on Shiva was, that you have to do Fates with a lot of people... like really a lot of people for one Fate, since there will be a screaming, shouting and weapon clashing effects (with these effects getting more intensive the more people there are), which would indicate a bigger battle. We never really confirmed if this was the trigger though.

Another possibility that I just came up with:

Maybe the trigger for Nunyunuwi has something to do with how many people cleared a Fate before the next time it spawns?
Like, if you do a Fate with ~ 50 people, but that Fate wasn't cleared the last time it popped, the difficulty would be really low, so even with said 50 people you couldn't really consider it a "big battle".
So what if Nunyunuwi spawns/has a chance to spawn, if you clear a Fate with a lot of people and the next time it pops, you clear it with at least the same amount or even more people since the difficulty should be harder?

[Steve_UK]

Gilgamesh still no spawn since maintenance. We're one of the higher pop and more active servers and have taken all online hunters to FATE grind in ST multiple times in the past 100 hours with no spawn.

I'll make a map of all possible spawn location's for you today or tomorrow, I will want you to try and 'shout' using the /shout command in all of these location's, and you'd need to post if nunyunuwi had spawned after this.

Kuraran - the fate that died just before nuny spawned was the dancing zombie fate (even though i dont believe this is the spawn).

I'll create the map and you guy's can try this, and test result's for this thread.

[Vandesaan]

Toying with new Nunyunuwi theory. There's two escort FATEs in Southern Thanalan which have sequential large battles with multiple enemies spawning over the course of the escort, which will scale up gradually as you complete it. These are initiated by players at 19,35 and at 17,17. Please test clearing out these FATEs over and over on your individual servers if you can and see if it yields any results. I often see these FATEs get overlooked while all other FATEs get cleared, so this is the reasoning behind this idea.

[Alukah]

Toying with new Nunyunuwi theory. There's two escort FATEs in Southern Thanalan which have sequential large battles with multiple enemies spawning over the course of the escort, which will scale up gradually as you complete it. These are initiated by players at 19,35 and at 17,17. Please test clearing out these FATEs over and over on your individual servers if you can and see if it yields any results. I often see these FATEs get overlooked while all other FATEs get cleared, so this is the reasoning behind this idea.

Do we want a large group of people for those?

[Vandesaan]

Do we want a large group of people for those?

Yes, the more people and the faster the mobs die, the more mobs will spawn from these escorts. A full party of 8 should be sufficient.

[Steve_UK]

I'll create the map and you guy's can try this, and test result's for this thread.

Sorry for the large image! im not great at thesr things.

Ok so my theory for nunyunuwi, is where i have circled the area, you can try going to them and /shout <insert text> (people will think your mental).

I'm testing this as i believe he has the same spawn condition as brontes, where no battle is required, but he will 'spawn' after a timer is up, or a fulfilment is complete.

Please can some-one test this for me and post with reply's?

[Steve_UK]

Garlok should spawn worldwide on every server.

[Vandesaan]

No it shouldn't, Garlok has desynced on many servers now. He naturally does this because of the nature of his spawn condition where it can be seemingly anything between 9 cycles to 15 cycles after the rain/showers condition. Many servers had it spawn spawn during the condition that was met 10 minutes before the time of the postponed maintenance. This was just one of the spawn windows possible, should your server have been with him open (42+ hours since last kill) for at least 2 hours.