An example of why the ARR Hunts need an adjustment

[StouterTaru]

Did XI get this much whining with NMs?

It got much, much more. The big ones were 21-24 hour spawns, with linkshells holding onto them for up to 3 hours before killing, so their window will be the same day after day. And they actually dropped exclusive items unavailable elsewhere.

[RitsukoSonoda]

It got much, much more. The big ones were 21-24 hour spawns, with linkshells holding onto them for up to 3 hours before killing, so their window will be the same day after day. And they actually dropped exclusive items unavailable elsewhere.

3 of the biggest HNM's in FFXI for years that had drops just about anyone in the game wanted were on respawn timers that were 3-7 days irl and on top of that they also had a rare version of themselves that had its own exclusive drop.

The biggest thing I'm seeing from a lot of the people whining is they don't appear understand a fundamental difference of rare spawn in an persistent world MMO that has a set period of time that must elapse before it can appear in the world again, and rare spawn in their offline games or instanced online content where its either just a single named monster that is always there or they can just force it to spawn when they want by reloading the game/instance.