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

[Yarukiba]

By the way Vandes, do you use ffxiv-the-hunt for your datas ? If yes, then do you want us, Moogle, to use it as well in case it can help for the timers ?

[Steve_UK]

Anyone any closer to figuring out senmurv's spawn? mateus are yet to see him :/

[Vandesaan]

By the way Vandes, do you use ffxiv-the-hunt for your datas ? If yes, then do you want us, Moogle, to use it as well in case it can help for the timers ?

I just dig for it wherever I can. That site is one of the ones I often reference since it lists actual kill timers and not ETAs

[DarienChiba]

Bryndilr has yet to see Senmurv and the S Rank in Churning Mists(I can't recall its name as I type this).

We have tried many methods to spawn Senmurv including: fates, hunts, random mobs, and fishing. If anyone has a working theory I would be happy to hear it. I suspected that killing hunt marks during fog or dust storm might trigger as the clue hints at clouds. However this did not seem to trigger anything.

[Vandesaan]

the "clouds" part of the hint is localization fluff. ignore it

[Steve_UK]

the "clouds" part of the hint is localization fluff. ignore it

Been killing meracydian mobs for 2 hours in a party of 7-8 at all times, still no sign of leucrotta, o_O although we did spawn 7 s ranks back to back from 2.0 in about 35mins earlier

[Yarukiba]

Bryndilr has yet to see Senmurv and the S Rank in Churning Mists(I can't recall its name as I type this).

We have tried many methods to spawn Senmurv including: fates, hunts, random mobs, and fishing. If anyone has a working theory I would be happy to hear it. I suspected that killing hunt marks during fog or dust storm might trigger as the clue hints at clouds. However this did not seem to trigger anything.

(Senmurv is Dravanian Forelands, Gandarewa is Churning Mist :P)
I can't confirm anything (since I can't play much lately) but on Moogle we never had a single spawn of Senmurv before the last hotfix, increasing XP from the FATEs. This is the current theory, a Nunyunuwi-like S rank which needs FATEs to be done / farmed for more than 1 hour. Try it if you can, if you have people willing to test it. Since that maintenance, he's spawned 2 times.

[DarienChiba]

I can confirm that killing mobs in Azyz Lla works. A FC member and myself went out there and after 30 minutes of killing mobs we got it to spawn. It may just be that it is triggered by a single kill, but that the trigger is a low percentage chance to spawn it.

[DarienChiba]

(Senmurv is Dravanian Forelands, Gandarewa is Churning Mist :P)
I can't confirm anything (since I can't play much lately) but on Moogle we never had a single spawn of Senmurv before the last hotfix, increasing XP from the FATEs. This is the current theory, a Nunyunuwi-like S rank which needs FATEs to be done / farmed for more than 1 hour. Try it if you can, if you have people willing to test it. Since that maintenance, he's spawned 2 times.

From reading the clue about the S rank, I have a difficult time connecting Fates to this S rank. More so, fate farming for a long period of time. I may be wrong of course though, but I have an idea I have been working since last night. While no spawns have triggered of course, I think there might be something that is happening at the time time as fate farming that people are not realizing or connecting to the trigger.

[Vandesaan]

Let me remind you that the Nunyunuwi hint makes no sense in terms of being linked to FATEs as well, yet there we are.


I also believe Square-Enix has gone full on lazy in terms of hunt this time around and that there is no specific, shorter post-maintenance timer for the Heavensward S ranks. This means that we should start looking for stuff like Kaiser Behemoth again if your last kill was above 50 hours ago.