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

[Kanjishin]

I went in with a nunyunuwi theory and gathered from every unspoiled legendary and ephemeral node and it popped between 1 and 2 eorzea days, so I am going to keep trying. Also worth noting I teleported out to hit bonna and croque nodes so wasn't in zone the whole time.

[Ultimatecalibur]

No HQ, yet it spawned. interesting. perhaps its a really low chance to spawn per hit? similar to bonnacon/croque, but less chance to spawn?

Bonnacon and Croque are not random spawn chances on a gather. Both spawn off the first item gathered after their respawn timer completes and it take 62 to 75 hours (39 to 45 after a maintenance downtime) for their respawn timers to complete.

One of the big problems right now is that we do not know the lengths of the min and max respawn timers for the new S ranks. People could be meeting the spawn conditions, but the S ranks are just not ready to spawn at the time.

I also suspect the Nunyunuwi's trigger is actually something to do with FATE scaling (i.e. the FATE respawns expecting 8+ players and that triggers Nuny) rather than on FATEs failing.

[Steve_UK]

Bonnacon and Croque are not random spawn chances on a gather. Both spawn off the first item gathered after their respawn timer completes and it take 62 to 75 hours (39 to 45 after a maintenance downtime) for their respawn timers to complete.

One of the big problems right now is that we do not know the lengths of the min and max respawn timers for the new S ranks. People could be meeting the spawn conditions, but the S ranks are just not ready to spawn at the time.

I also suspect the Nunyunuwi's trigger is actually something to do with FATE scaling (i.e. the FATE respawns expecting 8+ players and that triggers Nuny) rather than on FATEs failing.

Croque and Bonnacon are 'Chance to Spawn' every hit of the nod(once the window is open).

Also Nunyunuwi is fate killing for 1 hour without failing any, this has been confirmed for a good few months already, by Vandee, Myself, and others that use this thread alot.

[Vandesaan]

They are definitely not chance to spawn.

[Steve_UK]

They are definitely not chance to spawn.

It's not? Our croque window open for 3 hours, and no spawn yet...

[Yarukiba]

I've spent less time "trying" and more time into paying attention and I think the random window Vandes talks about in the 1st post is right. If there was just a chance that an action might spawn an S rank that would mean runing around on each location for Brontes would be useless, for exemple. You would just have to step on the landmine, eat, then get out, and come back again. Some people on my server believed it was like this for him so they stayed at the same point but nothing happened, until I tried the others, and he finally showed up after 1 food. On Moogle we killed Croque after his window opened 8 hours ago. He has a window that can extend from 63 hours to 75 hours, which means, if the game randomly choose 72 hours 35 minutes and 21 seconds, if you try to spawn him every hour when his window opens, nothing will spawn until you reach 9 hours 35 minutes and 21 seconds.
I think that's it ? I don't know if I'm easy to understand or if I understood what Vandes means right...

[Vandesaan]

It's not? Our croque window open for 3 hours, and no spawn yet...

please have a re-read of the changed intro post of this thread

[Kayko]

No HQ, yet it spawned. interesting. perhaps its a really low chance to spawn per hit? similar to bonnacon/croque, but less chance to spawn?

Gandarewa appears to be more likely attached to the 5th chain in gathering instead of an individual gather.

[Steve_UK]

Just noticed i've gone through all server's that use Ariyala, and only 1 server has killed Senmurv in the last 3 days, that was Hyperion. I'm guessing it spawns from something rather than just 'day to day' stuff.

Most server's would get a spawn randomly as you get the new players that fulfill half of the S ranks criteria without even realizing, yet senmurv seems to be the 'Odd one out'.

I will be reviewing all fates today, as well as leve quest hand-in's, and miner/botanist nod's, just incase it's any of these but a different aspect to it.

[Yarukiba]

Farmed FATE during 1 hour +, with Tarasque in the middle of this (glad a bunch of people killed it lol), and no sign of Senmurv so far. And now that I think about it, I wonder if after only 3 days there was people farming the lvl 57+ FATEs in the zone.