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

[BristolRuss]

It might just be harvesting dwarven cotton bolls, honestly.

EDIT: It seems this is yet another case of the English translation being very off and leaving out a key detail.

The JP hint states that the mage in question used magicks that spun threads to affect the destinies of others, then riddles about what kind of threads those might be (Which would be threads of fate, so it's almost certainly a FATE-triggered spawn.

The Cactuar instance it spawned in had a known FATE botter spamming FATEs when it happened, but no idea how long he was there. He's also only level 70 so he wasn't clearing all of the FATEs.

4 Dwarven Cotton Bolls make 1 Drawven Cotton Thread. Those threads can then be used to craft gear that can affect other players. Could just be as simple as that.

[KageTokage]

4 Dwarven Cotton Bolls make 1 Drawven Cotton Thread. Those threads can then be used to craft gear that can affect other players. Could just be as simple as that.

Maybe they were trying to trick us by making the criteria sound more complicated then it actually was.

It's usually the English descriptions that tend to be convoluted and full of fluff, but the JP one was extremely misleading this time as the former strongly hints that physical threads are involved, while the latter suggests they may simply be metaphorical.

[kuma_aus]

Maybe they were trying to trick us by making the criteria sound more complicated then it actually was.

It's usually the English descriptions that tend to be convoluted and full of fluff, but the JP one was extremely misleading this time as the former strongly hints that physical threads are involved, while the latter suggests they may simply be metaphorical.

Can you post the Japanese descriptions? It would help a lot if we could actually read what they said.