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

[Yarukiba]

Mahisha - Dying to FATEs in the zone. It's always been on the cusp of its timer so I cannot say for sure if it's proven. However, I have had a decent success rate.

Dying to FATEs will sure make him spawn but you don't need to die on them. Just die in the area, it's enough. He once spawned in front of me and my friend the second I died with a lvl 15 PGL. ^^

And about Safat, it's a nice theory but I still can't explain how Safat spawned when the servers crashed a while ago. For us on Moogle, Safat just spawns and I must admit that one is a real pain. We tried with the weather (I wasn't there the last time Safat spawned but some friends told me Safat spawned with both Blizzard and Clear weather so I don't thing this change a thing), we tried different location for our jumps but nothing really worked. Lately I never managed to spawn it and gave up after 3-4 hours of useless jumps.

[Sei-Ryu]

I've confirmed that Minhocao's spawn is longer than 57 hours. I'd say probably 60 hours. I've attempted to spawn him 4 times after 57 hours exactly have passed since his last death, for an hour or so each time, and no spawn. But every time around the 60 hour mark he spawned within just minutes of trying.

[Runeth]

Anyone else having longer than expected spawns after the 24 hour mark? We spawned Nandi easily enough and Garlok came up. Though, now I've pulled up 6 glimmerscales with no sign of Zona, and I know some others have pulled up some as well. Not to mention croque or bonnacon.

[Yarukiba]

Yeah I'd say the S still have different timer even after a maintenance. We just managed to spawn Minhocao. Going to try Safat since he's spawned on another server.

Btw Wulgaru's timer is shorter ; he spawned quite often 2 hours before the timer is up.

[Steve_UK]

Anyone else having longer than expected spawns after the 24 hour mark? We spawned Nandi easily enough and Garlok came up. Though, now I've pulled up 6 glimmerscales with no sign of Zona, and I know some others have pulled up some as well. Not to mention croque or bonnacon.

Believe the tracker site pre-empted the S rank's, and they are not completely accurate.

Some S rank's take longer to spawn than others, which is my theory of S rank killing/spawning order.

I tried to spawn nandi/brontes earlier, before garlok spawned, and nothing, but garlok and safat spawned, then nandi spawned instantly after.

As long as you get the correct S rank's, each should spawn in order. :-) (my theory anyway)

[Yarukiba]

Just spawned Zona.

But something is bothering me, does that Guildwork shitty thing can tell people from another area where a S just spawned ? Because I saw Zona spawn in front of me, checked if someone was around (I hate it when someone shouts and I'm all in CD xD), saw nobody, just had enough time to get close to it and invite one friend... before the log starts to be flooded by "LFG". While none of my LS knew about it.

[Vandesaan]

I've confirmed that Minhocao's spawn is longer than 57 hours. I'd say probably 60 hours. I've attempted to spawn him 4 times after 57 hours exactly have passed since his last death, for an hour or so each time, and no spawn. But every time around the 60 hour mark he spawned within just minutes of trying.

Meanwhile I have 11 logged kills at 56 hours

[Yarukiba]

Minhocao > Croakadile > Mahisha > insta spawn of Safat.

Makes me wonder if your theory is right Steve oO

[Steve_UK]

Meanwhile I have 11 logged kills at 56 hours

This is the correct spawn timer. You can spawn minhocao as soon as the timer reaches 2 hour's on ariyala. Although i dont usually spawn this s rank, it has been spawned 2 hour's within the window being open (56 Hour's + the odd few minutes).

[Steve_UK]

I've confirmed that Minhocao's spawn is longer than 57 hours. I'd say probably 60 hours. I've attempted to spawn him 4 times after 57 hours exactly have passed since his last death, for an hour or so each time, and no spawn. But every time around the 60 hour mark he spawned within just minutes of trying.

Are you making sure you are taking both side's of the map? my theory work's quite often when i do attempt this s rank. make sure to kill ALL eart spirite's in north thanalan, not just below/above town, as it might have something to do with 'X' spirite has to drop earth crystal's for minhocao to spawn (abit like RNG)