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

[Leknaat]

Yup there's been reports of Kaiser Behemoth and Pale Rider as early as 50 hours, haven't seen any for Bird before 56 hours though :P (same with Gandarewa before 70 hours)

We just had a Gandrewa pop like 10 mins ago while I was at lunch 61 hours 20 min or thereabouts.
We've had like one 52ish hour bird like once :/

They're being stubborn this time.

[GoonerWolf]

Is Pale Rider spawned only from treasure map? I tried spawning him using leves's treasure chest but I give up after opening like 10+. Cant seem to get a map on Hinterlands which is why i resort to leves but no pop.

[Meirii]

they have mechanics?

[FallenVindicator]

our server found something interesting about agrippa. idk if you guys knew this or not. seems like my server is still in the stone age haha. but agrippa will spawn if the piesteskin map is inside castrum centri. every time. we confirmed this over a dozen times. so maybe the same mechanic is for pale rider? the map has to be in a certain location like agrippa? food for thought. im new to this thread so if anyone posted a comment like that earlier, my b.

if you guys get a chance. i opened up an old topic on nunyunuwi. however, i think the conflict is resolved for the most part. but i did post my findings. if you guys wanted to take a quick look at it and maybe give me some info on how you consistently spawn him would be awesome. my server is plagued by his absence. a lot of people without that seasoned tracker achievement

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/274848-Nuyunuwi-S-rank-spawn-findings?p=3475890#post3475890

[Steve_UK]

. if you guys wanted to take a quick look at it and maybe give me some info on how you consistently spawn him would be awesome. my server is plagued by his absence. a lot of people without that seasoned tracker achievement

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...90#post3475890

Nunyunuwi is spawned by not letting a fate fail or expire for 1 hour in south thanalan. There are 5 clickables on the map (1 north, 3 middle and one is dessert). these also have to be completed in order for Nunyunuwi to spawn. the best trick is to have 2 people north, 2 people in middle 2 people in dessert, and last 2 people checking clickables. The event fate in south thanalan called 'Serket breaker' DOES NOT have to be completed. we failed one due to big worm fate, and Nunyunuwi still popped after 54minutes.

[FallenVindicator]

Yeah the event fate makes sense. Its not gonna be there forever. Any reason how we could have failed before? I know about the 5 clickable fates. My friends and I have been activating them and looking out for them. What i dont understand is how we fail more then we succeed. This guy hasn't been spawned for months. And it took us months to do so and the way we did was some desperate, terribly devised plan. But it worked. 3 times in a row while fate grinding works for us 50% of the time. is there something we are missing? we check with other active ls before we spawn any s rank. and lets be honest, how many people want to waste an hour fate grinding with a 50% chance of success. so i guess i dont understand. i dont want to say its a flawed theory, i just think there has to be something about the fates that we haven't considered? or maybe its me. maybe its just too many variables to control. how do i know someone else screwed up a fate that isnt in the fate parties? i have no way of knowing. but i just think its a bit odd that im struggling so much and people keep telling me the same thing. last night made me feel a little bit better. could be that we are way overgeared for the fates and just flying through them. could be certain # of fates per hour. idk. hopefully it continues to work though

the only reason why i brought up the event fate was because we completed it so often. then Nunyunuwi was spawned 44 minutes into our grind. could be a coincidence, but it seems like you guys did under an hour too. so that seems to be a coincidence.

[Leknaat]

Nunyunuwi is spawned by not letting a fate fail or expire for 1 hour in south thanalan. There are 5 clickables on the map (1 north, 3 middle and one is dessert). these also have to be completed in order for Nunyunuwi to spawn. the best trick is to have 2 people north, 2 people in middle 2 people in dessert, and last 2 people checking clickables. The event fate in south thanalan called 'Serket breaker' DOES NOT have to be completed. we failed one due to big worm fate, and Nunyunuwi still popped after 54minutes.

You don't need to finish the clickable npc ones apparently unless someone activates it.

[Tarta]

Is it like harassment if someone pulls early, and someone else says it was you that pulled even if logs say otherwise?
That person is then shouting that I pulled early, then complaining in their FC/LS, even if everyone tells them to check logs.
I didn't want to finger point to the person that actually pulled early, but I mean...they weren't admitting it.
Should I report the person for harassment or ignore them?

[Steve_UK]

Should I report the person for harassment or ignore them?

Thing is, what is considered 'Early pulling'? low populated server's like Mateus dont have fast puller's, we wait, sometimes 10-15minutes for groups to form before we pull. but iv e spawned s ranks on other servers, and the second person that comes, post's the s rank then instantly pulls, followed by the flood of 200-300 people!

I would just ignore them as hunt's are ment to be for 'Hunters', first come first served. If people are whining about early pulling and missing S ranks, tell them to start spawning them, as its very time consuming for those that took the effort to spawn these on a day to day basis.

[Leknaat]

Thing is, what is considered 'Early pulling'? low populated server's like Mateus dont have fast puller's, we wait, sometimes 10-15minutes for groups to form before we pull. but iv e spawned s ranks on other servers, and the second person that comes, post's the s rank then instantly pulls, followed by the flood of 200-300 people!

I would just ignore them as hunt's are ment to be for 'Hunters', first come first served. If people are whining about early pulling and missing S ranks, tell them to start spawning them, as its very time consuming for those that took the effort to spawn these on a day to day basis.

Someone arriving and pulling the second they get there is definitely an early pull. We have at least one FC on our server that falls in this category of inconsiderate and rude.

If I popped it and it's already claimed when I get there, that's probably an early pull :P Not to say the server should wait 15+ mins for everyone to get there - there's always stragglers. My general opinion is you should wait 5 minutes before pulling and add on a minute or two depending on how much travelling is required.

Then there are people that arrive just as a hunt that's been called 15 minutes earlier dies. They scream early pull. Just because they got the call late does not equate a early pull - get a better hunt LS or they can start popping the S's themselves.