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

[Leknaat]

I noticed the spazzing out people were doing about hunts has subsided. I knew it would too, once the initial hype, insanity, and it being the path of least resistance had changed. Now hunts seem to be working as intended.

Not sure it's working QUITE as intended. You only see S's being killed late at night on my server.... and maybe the A in that zone. Otherwise the A's will USUALLY sit there for like 6-8 hours till the day crew gets to it. Heavensward will probably make it another madhouse again.

[Kayko]

New data for The Garlok. Just had a spawn at 43:57 after last kill.
Times are in CDT:
Last kill was 6/14/2015 0:14
Spawned at 6/15/2015 20:11
Last rain/Shower Started at 6/15/2015 at 16:26, ended at 6/15/2015 16:50

Window should have opened at 6/15/2015 18:14
200 minutes after window opened should be 6/15/2015 21:34

With the data that was thought, the earliest spawn on Gilgamesh would have been at 6/16/2015 4:30
I don't have the numbers because I originally figured that I had a formula wrong, but something like this has happened before with a spawn roughly 43:30 to 44:00 hours after last kill.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Kayko, with the numbers you have given nothing is wrong.

The Garlok spawns 200 minutes after the the last Rain/Showers if the respawn timer has completed even if the Rain/Shower occurred before the timer has completed.
The respawn timer will complete at a random and hidden time between 42 to 48 hours after the last time The Garlok was killed.

200 minutes after the last Rain/Shower weather was 20:11 6/15/2015.
The earliest the respawn timer could complete was 18:14 6/15/2015.
As long as the hidden respawn timer completed between 18:14 and 20:11 on 6/15/2015 then The Garlock could spawn.

[Kayko]

Kayko, with the numbers you have given nothing is wrong.

The Garlok spawns 200 minutes after the the last Rain/Showers if the respawn timer has completed even if the Rain/Shower occurred before the timer has completed.
The respawn timer will complete at a random and hidden time between 42 to 48 hours after the last time The Garlok was killed.

200 minutes after the last Rain/Shower weather was 20:11 6/15/2015.
The earliest the respawn timer could complete was 18:14 6/15/2015.
As long as the hidden respawn timer completed between 18:14 and 20:11 on 6/15/2015 then The Garlock could spawn.

Then I along with others have been assuming the wording wrong. It was read as once respawn timer was up, it had to rain/shower for the 200 minutes to start. So if it was Rain/Shower as the 42 hours passed, it would make the very minimum spawn time 45:20 after last kill.
Due to working with a google spreadsheet for these, essentially I should be calculating that the window technically opens 38:40 to account for the minimum 200 minutes for weather with a possible spawn right at 42 hours from last kill?

[Vandesaan]

42h since last kill is the earliest I have received reports of The Garlok spawning, and that does imply that you should start looking for the weather conditionals at 38h in, yes. It is very rare for this to occur, and I believe yours is the third time I have heard of it happening since S ranks were launched. I guess the wording is a bit off in regards to that...

[Vandesaan]

In other interesting news, Excalibur had a partial server crash last night. http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...f4bf4979668647

What happened cause of this is that since Western La Noscea did not crash, Bonnacon showed up on schedule while every other S rank is now MIA and assumed to be running on their regular postmaintenance schedules. It's interesting to note that each zone has its own process and if it stays up, so does the timers for the hunt marks. Caused some funny conflicts with my hunt tracking tool, but that we can solve in the code...!

[Viridiana]

Clan Centurio is a go!

Elite marks defeated in the new areas surrounding Ishgard will yield Centurio Seals, which can be exchanged for various items and gear. These new elite marks will also reward experience points.

Before taking up the Hunt in these new areas, players must first complete a special quest, which also requires completion of the quest "Let the Hunt Begin"

To facilitate leveling in these areas, players will have the option to choose from three types of mark bills: level 1 clan mark bills, level 2 clan mark bills, and level 3 clan mark bills. Level 2 and level 3 clan mark bills can only be accepted after completing the aforementioned special quest.

[Rommie]

Clan Centurio is a go!

Like I didn't have enough to get done in 3.0, but yeah - moar hunts! Wonder if they'll be S+ for level 60s in the new zones or the same scale as the others

[Leknaat]

Like I didn't have enough to get done in 3.0, but yeah - moar hunts! Wonder if they'll be S+ for level 60s in the new zones or the same scale as the others

I just hope they were smart enough to implement the Odin de-render patch to these guys XD because.... well... S rank hunts before the Odin patch was applied to them XD

[Vandesaan]

S Rank Senmurv
"'Ave ye ever set yer eyes on a griffin, Player? They're 'alf eagle, 'alf lion, an' all 'unter. Just like a chocobo trapper, they stalk their prey from the shadows─or in their case the clouds─waitin' fer the perfect time to strike.
The chocobo 'unters o' Tailfeather've got a certain credo about pickin' when to spring the trap─“'unt the 'unter,” they say. Whatever quarry yer after, ye stand a better chance o' catchin' it unawares if it's busy tryin' to catch its own prey.
Seems it's a motto ol' Senmurv's taken to 'eart. Whenever a group of 'ungry beasts 'eads out on the 'unt, the king o' the griffins'll swoop down from the sky an' carry off as many as 'is beak'll 'old."

S Rank The Pale Rider
"Another request sent by a Sharlayan scholar from the safety of his homeland. The fellow's uncovered an ancient prophecy, saying that in the end of days, a deathly knight will rise from the grave and bring death and destruction to Dravania atop an ashen steed.
If the scholar is right, and this “end of days” does indeed refer to the Seventh Umbral Calamity, then this supernatural horseman should already be among us, but I don't see any death and destruction around here. Well, no more than normal, anyway...
Honestly, I think it's all a pile of chocobo plop. There was an adventurer passed through the other day, said she'd seen a headless horseman out in the hinterlands when she was hunting for treasure...but believe you me, you can trust those looters as far as you can throw them!"

S Rank Gandarewa
"It isn't only the dragons who have brought heretics into our midst, you know. Five hundred years ago, another heretical sect gained traction among the smallfolk of Ishgard.
The heathens adopted the customs of the Near East, bathing themselves in perfumes brewed from strange flowers and forging idols from rare metals that they used in their bizarre and unholy rites.
Naturally, the Temple Knights were quick to clamp down on the sect's activities. Its leader, a peasant who styled himself the great guru Gandarewa, fled to the next holiest place he knew─the sacred mountain of Dravania. There he supped on the blood of a dragon, and was forever changed..."

S Rank Leucrotta
"The southern continent of Meracydia was a land of dragons. The monsters came in all shapes and sizes, each species evolving to fit into its own particular habitat.
Take the coeurl dragon─a beast that made its home in the Meracydian jungles. It started off as a dragon like any other, but over time it lost its wings, being next to useless in the thick brush, and gained the flexible body and muscular limbs of a coeurl.
They were fierce hunters and scavengers, driven into a feeding frenzy the moment they caught scent of beast blood. The merchant who posted the bill reckons one of these beasts, a coeurl dragon by the name of Leucrotta, is up in the clouds right now, living on an abandoned Allagan island."