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

[CableMonkey]

My apologies... I removed the "max window" wording so not to cause issue and went to reply to you, but my co-worker was staring down into my soul demanding that lunch happen NOW. lol

The 132 number is from my personal experience alone and shouldn't (nor any other number for that matter) be considered fact...unless of course SE comes out and states it so (which I seriously doubt they would). So that said, I apologize for stating something as fact that can't really be proven. Should I get more data that suggests a higher number, I will increment that number accordingly. I've been proven wrong before and welcome it.

150 hour BoP... going on my logic only, I'd be wanting answers. That said, I wish that would have happened to me. Curious though... Did the 140 hour Kaiser happened in the same timeframe as the 150 hour BoP on the same world?

[NoboruSouma]

My apologies...

Oh, don't apologies - I feel bad if you do ... now I think I've been rude, haha ... it's all okay.

150 hour BoP... going on my logic only, I'd be wanting answers. That said, I wish that would have happened to me. Curious though... Did the 140 hour Kaiser happened in the same timeframe as the 150 hour BoP on the same world?

Sadly no, happened on different windows and it even repeated itself - but yes, it was all on the same world.
It really get's frustraiting .. I mean .. you gather every node for Gandarewa and he just won't show up far far into the window.
You go afk and let Squonk chirp for an hour straight and nothing happens.

In the end it's good for testing and seeing how far it can go .. or if there are other conditions need to be met. Like a Croque at 83 hours - or Safat at 57 hours after the last kill .. or at 92 hours ..
And I can't say this enough ... I don't wanna talk about Agrippa at all .. the RNG for double rain for Laideronnette gets me everytime as well.


Also about Udumbara:
JP Wiki and we also say it's Leshy, Diakka and Sapria - yet our Spawnmembers had spawns with only Leshy and Diakka and we were looking if anyone was killing Sapria, which wasn't the case.
And they are trying for a few hours sometimes so we can be sure not many Sapria were killed before.
So could it be that it's just x amount of any plant type mob? Or was it just bad RNG? Udumbara is the only S Rank that I can't fall in love with.

[CableMonkey]

And I can't say this enough ... I don't wanna talk about Agrippa at all

Pale Ride and Agrippa are in the same boat for me. I swear ours is sniped quite often.

So could it be that it's just x amount of any plant type mob? Or was it just bad RNG? Udumbara is the only S Rank that I can't fall in love with.

I've wondered too if its an X number of plant mobs. This would explain the confusion on what spawned it when these Ss were finally released. I've been wondering the same about the Yumemi for Okina.

As for Bone Crawler, I keep thinking there is something more than just take the choco-porter back and forth, but can't prove it. There's been a few times I've taken the porter between the two aetherytes several times and nothing, but as soon as I go between Rhalgar's Reach and Ala Ghiri once or twice, it pops. So far I've been writing it off as coincidence, but its in the back of my mind haunting me.

[NoboruSouma]

As for Bone Crawler, I keep thinking there is something more than just take the choco-porter back and forth, but can't prove it. There's been a few times I've taken the porter between the two aetherytes several times and nothing, but as soon as I go between Rhalgar's Reach and Ala Ghiri once or twice, it pops. So far I've been writing it off as coincidence, but its in the back of my mind haunting me.

I know what you mean - I usually never take any other route than the one between the two aetherytes.
Tried with the other ones without luck for now so I just stick with Ala Ghana to Ala Ghiri.

Our Bone Crawler usually spawns very late into the window as well - over 110 most of the time. I rarely see one under 100 hours. RNG on Louisoix is mean.

There once was a theory that it takes a different Leve for Wulgaru/Lampalagua to spawn each time. As well as a different map location for Agrippa/Pale.
So maybe it's a different route with a higher % than the others each time. But then again it's just a theory which is hard to prove since I doubt many will do the testing with changing the route each time and compare it to the spawn time.

[Sagittarii]

The 132 number is from my personal experience alone and shouldn't (nor any other number for that matter) be considered fact...unless of course SE comes out and states it so (which I seriously doubt they would).

For Stormblood S ranks, 132 hours max respawn has been my personal observation, but it's not a forced spawn like an A rank. The spawn conditions still have to be met.

[BillyKaplan]

For Stormblood S ranks, 132 hours max respawn has been my personal observation, but it's not a forced spawn like an A rank. The spawn conditions still have to be met.

That's the same for all S ranks. That's why Nandi, for instance, will often spawn right by the aetheryte when its timer is up - it's set to go off, but you still need someone with a minion to run over its spawn point and those are the closest ones.

[Sagittarii]

For the S rank "Salt and Light" it seems like the trigger is: discard item(s) in the Lochs 50 times.

I'm curious if others have observed this.

[Mozerlam]

For the S rank "Salt and Light" it seems like the trigger is: discard item(s) in the Lochs 50 times.

I'm curious if others have observed this.

This spawn was not quite 50 but close enough, this was early in the morning so I doubt anyone had tried in the hours leading up to the spawn. It was rather pleasant spawning something without a horde of xivhunt.net or ACT users being afk in a zone for once too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5sdOsmhPk

[dmcincubus]

Actually, S Rank spots are immediately determined once it's spawned and killed. for example, if you spawn Nandi, once you kill it, it will immediately reserve its next spawn point. The cool thing is, you can kill the B Rank in the area mulitple times and narrow the S Ranks spawn point down to 1 or 2 points, because the B Rank will never spawn in the reserved S rank spot or even the reserved A rank spot. then once the A Rank spawns, you'll be left with your guaranteed next s ranks spawn point for Nandi.

This actually works for every single S Rank in all 3 zones. We have a lot of fun with this on our server, and focus mainly with the S Rank landmine spawns such as Nandi, Gamma, Orghana, Croak, Kaiser, etc.


EDIT: I was actually meaning to respond to someone in this thread a few pages back, apparently i didn't hit the quote button.

[NoboruSouma]

Actually, S Rank spots are immediately determined once it's spawned and killed. for example, if you spawn Nandi, once you kill it, it will immediately reserve its next spawn point. The cool thing is, you can kill the B Rank in the area mulitple times and narrow the S Ranks spawn point down to 1 or 2 points, because the B Rank will never spawn in the reserved S rank spot or even the reserved A rank spot. then once the A Rank spawns, you'll be left with your guaranteed next s ranks spawn point for Nandi.

This actually works for every single S Rank in all 3 zones. We have a lot of fun with this on our server, and focus mainly with the S Rank landmine spawns such as Nandi, Gamma, Orghana, Croak, Kaiser, etc.


EDIT: I was actually meaning to respond to someone in this thread a few pages back, apparently i didn't hit the quote button.

We know this for a very .. very .. very long time now, yet we never made it public because it can be abused.
I had a talk about this with Cable Monkey and we both agreed that The Spawn Community should stay silent on it.

It went that far that even seasoned spawners on Louisoix went against the community and it caused a big fiasco.

Some information has to stay in a room with few people. Some information is not meant to be public as it can interfere with peace . . .

Thank god not all information we have is spread around this much.