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

[Yarukiba]

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[Vandesaan]

Vandes is certainly gathering informations outside of the thread as well, he'll be back at some point and edit the thread with probably more infos about the timers (he's probably raiding as well, having less time to spend on hunt)

edit: earliest spawn of KB is at 93 hours, just spawned on Moogle.

hello

what's new? I have not paid attention to hunt since they were basically useless for a while now. Cleared A4S in the meanwhile. Anyone wanna summarize for me what's been figured out so far?

[CableMonkey]

The "unconfirmed" status are things I have personally not verified...

Kaiser Behemoth - Approach spawn points with Behemoth Heir minion out.
Bird of Paradise - Has a chance of being spawned each time Squonk does the move "Chirp".
Senmurv - Complete the FATE "Cerfs' Up" 5 times in a row.
Gandarewa - [unconfirmed] seems to be related to the gathering of items from Legendary/Folklore nodes
The Pale Rider - [unconfirmed] treasure maps?
Leucrotta - Kill 50 Allagan Chimera, 50 Meracydian Voivre, and 50 Lesser Hydra after the window opens.

Unrelated, here's some spawn maps I have generated, some of which may be interesting (like Kaiser Behemoth vs. the A Ranks). I use the "Composite" map for finding B ranks.

http://cablemonkey.us/huntmap/

[Leknaat]

The "unconfirmed" status are things I have personally not verified...

Kaiser Behemoth - Approach spawn points with Behemoth Heir minion out.
Bird of Paradise - Has a chance of being spawned each time Squonk does the move "Chirp".
Senmurv - Complete the FATE "Cerfs' Up" 5 times in a row.
Gandarewa - [unconfirmed] seems to be related to the gathering of items from Legendary/Folklore nodes
The Pale Rider - [unconfirmed] treasure maps?
Leucrotta - Kill 50 Allagan Chimera, 50 Meracydian Voivre, and 50 Lesser Hydra after the window opens.

Unrelated, here's some spawn maps I have generated, some of which may be interesting (like Kaiser Behemoth vs. the A Ranks). I use the "Composite" map for finding B ranks.

http://cablemonkey.us/huntmap/

KB - can be flying and still pop it as long as the heir has been summoned ala Nandi.
Bird of Paradise - Squonk doesn't even need to be killed
Pale rider is definitely opening the chest to Wyvernskin Maps in hinterlands (I can't confirm leve boxes)

Cerf's up has a horrible RNG to actually come up. It's about 15 mins to 2 hours to pop and it USUALLY takes about 1.5-2 hours per instance of the fate unless people are actively clearing fates in the zone.

I think there might also be a 'within 1 hour' clause to 150 Leucrotta mobs but I can't confirm this since it's really hard to tell when Leucrotta really opens. I killed all 150 at like 122 hours in for Leucrotta it took 1 hour 20 mins and couldn't get a spawn so either it wasn't open or there's a 1 hour time limit like Yarukiba suggested in a previous post. Finally decided to go back at 144 hours, had some help so we barely squeaked in 150 in 1 hour.

Given how hard Gandrewa is to pop there might be something that's not being accounted for. For me it's mindlessly gathering collectibles from both nodes till he pops. Maybe it just is repeated gathers. The last Gandrewa that popped I was the only one gathering and I went from I think... ore > heaven > ore pop. No chains (had a couple you obtain nothings, but always got at least 1 gather each time)... yeah baffling. I also waited till around 134-135 hours. :<

[CableMonkey]

Kaiser Behemoth - I left the fly/walk part generic on purpose; as I think you still have to fly close to the ground to trigger him. I always run across the spots on map to minimize the chance of tic or network lag.

Cerf's Up usually involves me loading up another game while FFXIV sits idle on my second screen. I've seen it take 15 minutes to 2 hours, 15 minutes to respawn...pure boring torture...

As for Leucrotta, I don't believe there is a time limit, or if there is, its longer than 1 hour. I have solo spawned him while leaving zone every 5 to 10 minutes to check on Cerf's Up (and completing that fate if it is). This definitely took longer than an hour. Edit: His maximum respawn window does seem to be longer than 122 hours. I too have failed at the same number of hours with a group killing mobs.

[grrr.. 1000 character limit...]

[CableMonkey]

Gandarewa - I've recently had the suspicion that there is a landmine mechanic to his spawn, but have yet to prove it, for someone usually finds him before I get to him or it spawns when I'm not online. I had an LS member claim it spawned in front of them when they landed at his spawn point to do a treasure map. I was unable to get any more information than that from them. Their call was near 7pm ET... Another time, it was called almost immediately after I went to bed which was just after I had finish searching for him. I remember specifically running over the spot where he was found... Then again, maybe I was just blind or really tired...

[Leknaat]

Gandarewa - I've recently had the suspicion that there is a landmine mechanic to his spawn, but have yet to prove it, for someone usually finds him before I get to him or it spawns when I'm not online. I had an LS member claim it spawned in front of them when they landed at his spawn point to do a treasure map. I was unable to get any more information than that from them. Their call was near 7pm ET... Another time, it was called almost immediately after I went to bed which was just after I had finish searching for him. I remember specifically running over the spot where he was found... Then again, maybe I was just blind or really tired...

The thing with Gandrewa being found before you find him can PROBABLY be explained by someone in the zone having Guildworks running - An S rank loads in no matter where that person is in the zone (A ranks you have to be in render distance) It's also possible someone ran up to the node last minute to mine/harvest from it. (this is why I generally never leave the node till it's timer has run out)

And I've solo popped Leucrotta before I just never paid attention to how long it took (although it felt like I was killing them usunsually fast that time) I should probably mind how long it takes a bit more often.

[NoboruSouma]

Kaiser Behemoth - I left the fly/walk part generic on purpose; as I think you still have to fly close to the ground to trigger him. I always run across the spots on map to minimize the chance of tic or network lag.

No need to fly close to the ground. You can fly a bit above/higher to trigger him. No need to hug the floor or so.

[Yarukiba]

snip 'cause ccharac. limit

My friends and I managed to spawn Leucrotta several times but I do believe there's a time limit, since I failed to spawn Leucrotta more than once at 145 hours and later (someone here can confirm as I was going nuts and logged out after failling lol). It's most likely linked to a bloodbath by killing 150 monsters with a timer like Nuny has. We purposely let the timer ran longer and waited for 140 hours~ to try to spawn it. Alone, it took me between 1h20 and 1h45

I also confirme Pale Rider, Senmurv, Kaiser and BoP's trigger. Can't say about Gandarewa since I can't gather for him.

(and gratz on your kill Vandes !)

[Yarukiba]

The thing with Gandrewa being found before you find him can PROBABLY be explained by someone in the zone having Guildworks running - An S rank loads in no matter where that person is in the zone (A ranks you have to be in render distance) It's also possible someone ran up to the node last minute to mine/harvest from it. (this is why I generally never leave the node till it's timer has run out)

There was one time I was flying in the middle of the map, waiting for 2 friends to gather the ore node, and right when they were done, Gandarewa spawned under my griffin as I was standing there and just moving my camera. But I was way too high above him to "trigger" his spawn like Kaiser. There was nobody else around (almost 4am irl)