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

[Steve_UK]

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You might be right with leucrotta, since i have seen a few fishers at azy Lla's, but im not a 'fishing' person so i wouldnt know what is catchable at which location. this also explains the RNG on leucrotta spawning, people are stating its from beast killing, when there is potential it could be from fishing (i could see them adding another fishing s rank, as they added another minion s rank too).

People stated that 'Bull chocobo' was recently killed before their Senmurv was killed, so i know this sounds like a offchance, would this be the fate scale we need? i've always seen that fate expire due to low populated server.

[Steve_UK]

I know i've said this 1000 times, but i dont think gathering the 2 legendary nodes is the ONLY condition that has to be met. This might sound abit silly, but do you think this is a two part process for this s rank? as others have stated 'Obtaining' dragon blood has 'rumoured' spawned Gandarewa, but there is no solid proof of this, whilst there has been videos of gandarewa spawning from the 5am/5pm nod, what if its both? You have to obtain XXX blood, then hit the node' for it to spawn? Thats the reason why i asked earlier in the thread about population on servers that got a quick spawn after maintanence.

Sorry for double post, 1000 letters is all i can use :/

[Vandesaan]

Dragon blood is only mentioned in the localized hint. Once again, ignore the fluff.

[Heskett]

Hooray! Spent 10 hours on nodes today and gave up. One hour later, Gandawera finally spawns for the first time on Coeurl!

Was found 11AM Eorzean time and killed 12PM Eorzean time. I guess someone popped it on the aegis node and wasn't found until later because it was halfway in a mountain.

[Ultimatecalibur]

That logic though, is why we struggled for so long with Nunyunuwi. We let FATEs fail, because we were busy making them large-scale battles. Only once we stopped letting any of the FATEs fail did Nunyunuwi actually spawn. That's what I mean in that the hint was misleading and that it made no sense in terms of what the trigger actually is.

Most of the prior to that strategy attempts at spawning Nuny tried to drag out the number of monsters by timing out the infinite Sandworm spawning "Revenge of the Worms" and the Infinite Golem spawning "Soul Man" FATEs. There were several Nuny spawns without one hour of no failed FATEs.

My theory is that the "Let no FATE fail for one hour strategy" allows the condition to be met due to the number of people needed to prevent all FATEs from failing causes the Culling/Battle FATEs to scale to the needed level.

[Vandesaan]

Most of the prior to that strategy attempts at spawning Nuny tried to drag out the number of monsters by timing out the infinite Sandworm spawning "Revenge of the Worms" and the Infinite Golem spawning "Soul Man" FATEs. There were several Nuny spawns without one hour of no failed FATEs.

My theory is that the "Let no FATE fail for one hour strategy" allows the condition to be met due to the number of people needed to prevent all FATEs from failing causes the Culling/Battle FATEs to scale to the needed level.

You can solo the requirement to spawn Nunyunuwi. I do it all the time if I'm bored enough. There is no scaling involved, just one hour of FATEs not failing.

[Runeth]

Agreed Vandes, Nuny is most definitely from 1 hour of no fates failing. This S rank was a huge issue for a very long time on Zalera. Before figuring out these issues we would go an entire month without seeing him. Once we discovered the cause of his spawn we have been able to consistently spawn Nuny with no more that a 3 person group spreading out over the map to knock out all the fates with each person handling different fates, all of these spawns come up between 1 hour and 1 hour 15 minutes.

Also on a side note Vandes, small typo on your #1241 post. For item acquisition you mean Minhocao and not Mahisha. Just thinking that might confuse some people.

[Neuflune]

Let me remind you that the Nunyunuwi hint makes no sense in terms of being linked to FATEs as well, yet there we are.


I also believe Square-Enix has gone full on lazy in terms of hunt this time around and that there is no specific, shorter post-maintenance timer for the Heavensward S ranks. This means that we should start looking for stuff like Kaiser Behemoth again if your last kill was above 50 hours ago.

Carbuncle got Kaiser and the rest of the 3.0 S ranks on the 31st of July, and have been consistently spawning them for weeks prior. I noticed that they spawned at about a similar timeframe to Croque and the others' post-maintenance timer (not including Garlok and Nandi, those spawn much earlier)... but dear heavens, now that there is no maintenance on Thursdays we have been unable to trigger the 3.0 S ranks while the 2.0 S ranks pop out all the time as specified.

[Yarukiba]

Leucrotta : Player health is feasible, but let's look at Fishing for a second. The fish Lungfish has a wording similar to the evolution lines about Leucrotta, meaning that it may have been the preferred food of the cat throughout it's evolution?

However, that fish requires Clouds weather to be catchable. But we've seen Leucrotta on different weathers like fair, lightning, cloud etc (and we can't say it was "late found" because of the INCREDIIBLY huge amount of people using Shitwo- I mean Guildwork on Moogle -_-).
http://en.ff14angler.com/fish/351

[Neuflune]

I spawned Kaiser Behemoth just now while looking for Kreutzet.

x32, y18

Carbuncle will now trigger the S ranks; we always start with Kaiser.

Edit:

Successful spawn and kill times in JST:

31st of July spawn 05:19, kill 05:25
3rd of August spawn 18:20, kill 18:25