S Rank Marks - spawning

[AlrikRouge]

Have any groups gone through the possible actions required/suggested from the Hunt Scholars to try and spawn an S Rank Mark?

Like the "group of terrified hunters" in Central Highlands?

I have yet to get a party together to give it a go, but wanted to see who out there has already attempted and if so, was it successful or not?

[Sadana]

Yes and no it wasn't.
A friend of mine is a XI vet and said "Oh clues for a force pop, go do this and this, here and there." I've shouted in areas. Fished in other areas. Nothing.
/shrug
My guess is clues are just decoration.
I hope someone disproves this; it'd be more fun if you could at least encourage the mark to show up faster. XD

[Nekodar]

The clues do provide hints and they can work if you're within the spawn window.

[Taruranto]

Mindflayer spawned on all servers on a new moon, so we can definitely say they aren't just decorations.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Flame Arrow into Garlok lair.

[Raeanya]

The problem that I can see is that I've read the spawn window is 24-72 hours. So that means that as soon as people figure out what it is, they can get the mark to spawn on a certain schedule. You can bet that there will be players that will control that schedule. Then other players that can't meet the schedule will never get a chance to participate. Am I understanding that wrong?

[Nutz]

I have seen some people doing lots of convoluted things to get these to spawn with mixed success. It's really difficult to say because if any of the many methods people are using are working (as opposed to it just being a timer or something else out of the players' control) it seems like there is a substantial delay between performing the trigger action and the S rank mob actually spawning (between 5 and 60 minutes).

It probably won't be too much longer before people have repetition confirms all the correct methods. In the meantime some people over at the BG forums seem to be having a go at it.

[AlrikRouge]

Interesting. So basically while it could work or help, likely I might never know due to someone else making it happening earlier, OR it spawning randomly anyway.

Ah well. Going to give it a go anyway and see what happens.

[Drako]

Well I don't know about these hints, because some of it would be extremely hard to figure out. Like that S rank in Southern Thanalan. The NPC gives a odd clue. When you read it, it makes you think you need to get a bunch of people and go kill stuff over by temple of Qarn. I was killing stuff over there solo just to find out if anything would happen out of random luck. But sense I didn't see anything happen, I went on my merry way. But 5 hours later, the S rank poped up, WAAAAY south, way out in the desert. So what kind of sense would it be to make a pop condition at the temple, and have it pop on the other side of the zone. That is just really weird to make a hint system like that imo. Maybe give you some kind of a notification in the environment, that you did the right thing, and the NM is roaming around. IDK the hint says this S rank is like part of the ruins, until he is roused or something. Make a weird Golem looking rock in the ruins, and if your successful in popping him, maybe have that rock just vanish or something.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

But 5 hours later, the S rank poped up, WAAAAY south, way out in the desert.

You realize Qarn isn't the only place with ruins in Southern Thanalan, right? Remember the zombies near Hab?