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

[GuiseofAmour]

Kaiser Behemoth.

Is the spawn condition only having the Behemoth Heir minion and traversing the Western Highlands with it? Our server has hit the "missing/ maximum" timeframe with no spawn, yet, despite a group of us having tried to spawn him repeatedly over the last 3 days. I can note, however, that we haven't completed the Behemoth F.A.T.E. is quite a long time. Is it possible this notorious monster has a double condition? Behemoth F.A.T.E. downed and wandering the Western Highlands with the heir? I only ask since the hunt hint mentions something about felling it's brothers.

if you have reached missing, you have reached 107 hours after last tod. it is possible that its just not ready yet. kaiser is kind of a buttface. just be patient. before maintenance, my server was at 126 hours without a spawn. but i also was not available to spawn it. make sure you are flying over all spawn locations (where ever you have seen a hunt, b, a or s rank). make sure you kill any a ranks and b ranks that have been in one position for awhile.

[GuiseofAmour]

im actually starting to think the reason for our fluctuation in minimum spawn times is due to server population. my server is small, so i can count who spawns s ranks in two hands. that's probably why our spawn times are similar with kaiser, senmurv, and leucrotta bc the spawn methodology isnt based off x amount of something. but gandarewa and bop could be off bc your server may make squonk chirp more or collect btn/min nodes more then my server does. i can honestly say for gandarewa,only one person spawns it. that could be the reason why my server never sees it before 115 hours.

Edit: And someone pointed out in my group as we fish for zona... that we had a senmurv unde 100 hours last week. It's still within my expected range the only question is if he opens earlier or fates before he opens counts (like Garlok popping after like 15 hours of non rain) It makes my head hurt :<

garlok seems to only spawn when there has been 9 weather cycles of fair skies/clear skies. fog, cloud, wind, seems to delay its spawn.

[Leknaat]

im actually starting to think the reason for our fluctuation in minimum spawn times is due to server population. my server is small, so i can count who spawns s ranks in two hands. that's probably why our spawn times are similar with kaiser, senmurv, and leucrotta bc the spawn methodology isnt based off x amount of something. but gandarewa and bop could be off bc your server may make squonk chirp more or collect btn/min nodes more then my server does. i can honestly say for gandarewa,only one person spawns it. that could be the reason why my server never sees it before 115 hours.



garlok seems to only spawn when there has been 9 weather cycles of fair skies/clear skies. fog, cloud, wind, seems to delay its spawn.

I've had a garlok where it was no rain for 8+ hours XD his window is 40-48 and I knew his rain condional had finished like 2 hours before he opened. It was the shittiest 7 and half hours of waiting ever XD He waited till he was 30 mins from force to pop.

And yeah consitency is the key to getting them to pop. if one Cerf's up fails then you have to start over again. if people are consitently completing the fate there's less breaks. IF only one person is popping gandarewa yeah gaps will happen especially if it pops after her third node. Ask her to keep track how often he pops after 3 nodes if there are several where he pops on the third it means he was ready to pop for some unspecified amount of time before they started. (I'm assuming it's never popped on the first or second node because it's believed to be chain collection of 3 nodes)

And as for squonk I'm prone to changing to scholar on my alt, sticking squonk onto eos and letting him chirp for 3-4 hours at a time. Once I did it for 10 hours, someone would kill squonk I'd go find him again. I did it over 7 hours one day, 10 hours the next day it took that long to get bop to pop. XD

edit: and as per prelim patch notes

2.0 Areas
A Rank 30 poetics /10 law -> 30 poetics /10 esos
S Rank 100 poetics /30 law -> 100 poetics /30 esos
3.0 Areas
A Rank 30 poetics /10 law -> 30 poetics / 20 esos / 10 lore
S Rank 100 poetics / 30 law -> 100 poetics / 80 esos/ 30 lore

I know how I'm going to try to cap for the week XD and now I have to pay attention to 3.0 A ranks XD

[MiunaOshino]

EDIT : The timers below are now irrelevant ; here are the new ones according to Ariyala's update : http://puu.sh/ntqlp/3384755ac1.png

Safat and Nandi aren't the only ones that are off ; some time ago I made a spreadsheet with timers and stuff, and also comparison between timers from this thread and those from Ariyala.

Here they are : http://puu.sh/nflyL/86e44c596f.png
A negative value means the S rank opens before it's marked as open on Ariyala, according to this thread's timers. Also keep in mind that Ariyala substracts 30 minutes from its timer when an S rank is reported. So a difference of +1 hour is actually +1 hour and 30 minutes ; -1 hour is actually -30 minutes, and so on. Thus, Safat and Nandi are +11:30.

All of Ariyala's timers were datamined directly from the hunt tracker's scripts, and others from this thread's first post. Don't follow this for 3.0 S ranks though, I've put arbitrary timers a few months ago and haven't changed them since.

[NoboruSouma]

Safat and Nandi aren't the only ones that are off ; some time ago I made a spreadsheet with timers and stuff, and also comparison between timers from this thread and those from Ariyala.

Here they are : http://puu.sh/nflyL/86e44c596f.png
A negative value means the S rank opens before it's marked as open on Ariyala, according to this thread's timers. Also keep in mind that Ariyala substracts 30 minutes from its timer when an S rank is reported. So a difference of +1 hour is actually +1 hour and 30 minutes ; -1 hour is actually -30 minutes, and so on. Thus, Safat and Nandi are +11:30.

All of Ariyala's timers were datamined directly from the hunt tracker's scripts, and others from this thread's first post. Don't follow this for 3.0 S ranks though, I've put arbitrary timers a few months ago and haven't changed them since.

About Gandarewa though;
I had a spawn on him at ~100 hours once. It's very rare, I know. But it damn happened.

[Leknaat]

About Gandarewa though;
I had a spawn on him at ~100 hours once. It's very rare, I know. But it damn happened.

Miuna said in her/his post: Don't follow this for 3.0 S ranks though, I've put arbitrary timers a few months ago and haven't changed them since.

I can personally confirm a 92 hour gandarewa but that's literally the only 92 hour one our server has seen that wasn't post maint. I assume S spawns would kind of end up like a bell curve. More likely to be in the middle than to force or pop at the eareliest possible window.

[Kanjishin]

All right!! Looks like they added 2 new nodes in the Churning Mists to help pop gand at 3am 3pm XD

[Leknaat]

Downed Bird of paradise about 15 mins ago. a little over 55 hours in

[CableMonkey]

Please note that I rarely do any A rank hunting, but today was one of those days.

We just had Bune despawn in front of our party that was gathering to pull him. Is this something new? lol

[Leknaat]

Please note that I rarely do any A rank hunting, but today was one of those days.

We just had Bune despawn in front of our party that was gathering to pull him. Is this something new? lol

O.o;;;; I have never heard of this either lol..... how long was he up? I've seen alectryon sittin in the same spot for 8+ hours