72 hours for Ixion FATE too long?

[Kyrian12]

I still think 72 hours is way too long as it rewards camping and early pulling. People who actually have real life jobs and obligations will have a lot of difficulty getting Ixion unless Ixions just happens to spawn when they're on. Upping the horn drop rate helps but it doesn't fix the problem that arriving early enough to the Ixion fight to get gold is a difficult task in and of itself.

As it stands now though, people early pulling Ixion is pretty common, at least on Siren. I camped out Ixion for 15 hours and was at the entrance of Porta Praetoria in another instance when he spawned, and was notified immediately of his presence by a party member who was camping the instance. He was pulled only a minute after I arrived at the FATE. One thing you have to consider is that Ixion was up for only 7-8 minutes in a 36-72 hour spawn window, and no one can predict when he will spawn. With those odds, you either have to camp him out like I did or be lucky that you're on and immediately informed when he spawns.

[Xane_Thrife]

I, personally, think the spawns are too long. Especially if they're trying to drop the instance down to 1. There's far too many people trying to get the mount now. Simply because of how rare it spawns. While it's awesome to have so many players gathered in one spot, the whole ordeal turns into a double-edged sword.

We get TOO many players gathered together. Causing severe congestion, and it completely cucks anyone who was there from the beginning to 1%... Just to get a "Disconnected from server" message. Do you know how that feels when you've waited for hours? It's trash.

They could've kept the horns to 2 per gold, and I would have felt better of the spawns weren't so spread out. At this rate, Ixion has because a hunt monster. One that is mishandled due to this stupid congestion.

[Blackcanary]

Where does this fate come from, where can he be found?
Is he a level 70 fate?

Him and Shiva was my favorite summons in FFX.

[Sekkei]

Ah yes, good old instance 2. For those not on Excalibur, that one was the last one to not pop Ixion since the maintenance. The day came and went with 1 and 3 popped, another day goes by, 1 and 3 windows open again, Ixion comes into instance 2 five hours shy of the force pop drunk and carrying a bag of donuts. Someone's not getting a gold star for effort. Fun times were had while waiting and many of us got clubbed in the face many times though. Or tiny pig bodies chomped on...

[Paladinleeds]

Personally, I aren't sure what SE were actually expecting with Ixion. I think they need to move it to an instanced duty... Until they can get the overworld servers able to properly handle it. Perhaps you can put a random time between 24 and 72 hours before the "Loot already received" message clears, after each time you get loot?

I think they should make ixion harder to get.

Make him only drop like... 4 horns per spawn, you yiu have to roll on them, against everyone else who participated. Or whoever does most damage, or only the group that claimed him first on the attack can roll.

I know, I'm an evil person.

But I absolutely loved ffxi system for NMs lol

If we're going by that, 4 week minimum wait for it to spawn (no force spawn though, so you could even be waiting 100 years for it to spawn), 99 horns needed for the mount, each FATE drops one, the party/alliance who did the most damage rolls on it, everyone else gets nothing for it. Only one person gets it. If you don't get a horn 3 times in a row you are blocked out from the next 100 runs (an aetherial barrier will block your entrance, at a distance of 500 yalms from his location. If he spawns, you're blocked, and you're within the block radius, even if dead, you're immediately teleported out of the zone completely). If you want to be evil, you need to dial it up to 11.

(note that I do not support this idea I just listed for this quote, just trying to showcase what an "evil suggestion" on this would look like)

[Dzian]

ixion isnt 72 hours .....

his pop is between 24 and 72

it's totally possible to get him 3x in the same day and then 3x the next day

So how many hours are in one of your days?

If the minimum respawn is 24 hours it's impossible to get him to spawn twice a day let alone 3 times....

I personally don't get what all the fuss is about. Firstly it's a fate and fates are trash.

Secondly it's meant to be "rare" so it shouldnt be predictable at all. Not this guaranteed to spawn between 24 and 72 hours thing we have nowm cos thats not rare its frequent

[ElHeggunte]

So how many hours are in one of your days?

If the minimum respawn is 24 hours it's impossible to get him to spawn twice a day let alone 3 times....

Each Instance has its own timer, so it's very possible to see him three times in one day.

[Arutan]

Hey guys... What about... Not waiting 72hours for a fate because that isn't what the game is about? You'll see it won't feel so long if you don't wait for that ENTIRE time. You may actually miss some but that's life. It's a world boss with mount as reward and you're expecting it to be offered on a golden plate, like any casu would ask if I may say. They already increased the token rewarded, so deal with it.
If your issue is that there's always crash servers and lags, then wait. People will eventually all get their mount and the zone will get more stable. Everyone's hyped by the Ixion mount thus is why they all complain while every other 5 world boss never had any complaint, tho Odin crashed as much as Ixion at his time.

[KeyboardFacerollname]

72 hours spawn timer is fine.

Just make Ixion like Odin, where he doesn't die within 2 minutes of being pulled. Seeing the call go out in LS and then getting to the right instance only to find that he's already been killed doesn't seem like a good design(and there will ALWAYS be people that pull as soon as there's 10+ people there)

[Deceptus]

Considering Ixion has a bad habit of spawning at 3AM... Yes 72 hours is entirely too long.

This. SO much this.