How exactly do people find out about where an A rank is?

[Dogempire]

So apparently, I'm in Coerthas Central Highlands because I wanted to see *spoiler* Haurchefant's grave.

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So, I find my old nemesis Marraco, who randomly attacked and killed me once when I was a lower level questing in the area. Being much stronger than I was back when he killed me, I decided to engage him in combat on the way to my destination.

I start fighting him with Eos standing away from me healing me when my health drops below 80%, then instantly people just start asking for a party, then instantly there's tons of people where I am who start killing the elite mob.

Erm, do people use radar hacks or something to find A ranks? I didn't see any scouts or anything, nor did anyone say "Hey there's an A rank here" in shout. Just people randomly asking for an invite to a party and a pack of people suddenly show up to where the site of where my revenge was supposed to be.

I dunno, I've never done hunts before.

[LaylaTsarra]

A ranks spawn in random locations every few hours. I wanna say every 3 but am not sure of the time. S ranks are more involved and generally involve someone or a number of people actively doing things to spawn them. And hunt groups actually spread out and look for the hunts in order to find them.

[AskaRay]

People usually just wander around and search for them.

edit: If someone sees an A rank usually the call to arms goes out in a linkshell or party chat; not always in the shout channel, so that's probably why suddenly you had a million people on you.

[Pence]

When I'm busy and I find a hunt I'll just link it in /L chat and keep on running. So it very well may have been reported without you seeing anyone.

[Sicno]

Linkshells. Some people share mark locations on linkshells before shouting them on the map so that people have some time to get there before someone in the vicinity pulls it right away.

Now, the location you described is near the way of the Svara chain of fates, so someone may have seen it and reported it. Or maybe someone who was on their way to the grave too.

[Dogempire]

This wasn't the location, but this was the chat log.

[Dogempire]

Linkshells. Some people share mark locations on linkshells before shouting them on the map so that people have some time to get there before someone in the vicinity pulls it right away.

Now, the location you described is near the way of the Svara chain of fates, so someone may have seen it and reported it. Or maybe someone who was on their way to the grave too.

I noticed the svara fate but only after Marraco was dead and it was far away from the location.

[Klamor]

Excalibur has a huge network of people that are pretty much constantly and consistently checking out the spawn points (which are widely known) of As and Ss. Bs also spawn at all the same locations that the As and Ss will spawn. Those people are in linkshells, who are in linkshells with others, who are in other linkshells all relaying information on hunts across each other.

They also use a website to know what mobs to look for based on their kill times (also widely known, thanks to the data collected by Excalibur's own players) and they update the website to keep the timers relatively accurate.

You could do the same if you made your own spreadsheet and had people reporting to you the kill times, or you can use the tools available to do the same.

[Nicobo]

....Erm, do people use radar hacks or something to find A ranks?....

below is an old thread that may give you some idea ^^;

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2264071

[CGMidlander]

There are a number of preset spawn points (e.g. Hellsclaw is always somewhere on the Wineport side of Eastern La Noscea) that an A rank can randomly spawn in once their timer is up. Larger NA worlds use Guildwork pretty often to track hunts, but smaller worlds (from what I've seen) tend to have hunt groups that use a hunt timer like the one on Ariyala's site. I'm not sure what JP/EU worlds use.