Crowd-sourcing and testing Eureka Pagos NM spawn condition hypotheses

[MontyChamberlain]

Wouldn't a good test be for a fair-sized group for 30+'s to go beat the snot out of the little birds that pop Snowqueen? They'd wrack up the numbers needed pretty fast. So she'd either pop or be primed to pop as soon as her conditions opened in her window.

This is a good suggestion, but keep in mind that a lot of the 34-35s are doing one of 3 things: 1) light-farming adaptation/mutation mobs (Frozen Void Dragons have recently been seen to have slightly higher light drops in early data), 2) hopping from instance to instance in an attempt to chain-spawn Louhi for Louhi Ice drops, or 3) spamming bunny FATEs in an attempt to get all Hakutaku eyes. I am in the camp that is spamming the bunnies and have been doing so for the past few days, so I have not really been trying to spawn the lower-level NMs (which, sadly I would like to do if these eye drop rates were not so atrocious).

Put simply, this game needs a proper Public Test Realm where nearly completed content is thrown up to a select group of players to try and break it. This way the Devs can see how actual players react and tackle the content instead of internal testers who "know" how its "supposed" to be run and make the appropriate changes before it goes live.

Square Enix is a small indie game company without the resources to do that, remember? /s

I killed a bunch of lvl 29 water sprites during fog, but Anapos didn't spawn until 56 minutes (ET) into the next weather cycle (heatwaves).

There are also the Louhi daytime spawns to consider. Using Anemos logic, the required number of mobs had already been killed and it was only Louhi spawning once his cd was up, but we're also hearing it takes most of a lockout or a bazillion kills to spawn him. Both can't be right unless Louhi's cd is longer than two hours.

We've definitely confirmed that NMs can spawn in different weather from their spawn fodder. The real problem is getting everyone to do something that benefits everybody, which is NM spawning. NMs give guaranteed light, Pagos crystals, and EXP, and if not for either the low NM spawn rate or the enigma of how to get them to spawn, we wouldn't be in such a soul-crushing grind.

Let's hope that the hotfix on Monday night addresses more problems than just the EXP chain bug, especially since the timeframe appears to be in Japan's normal work hours.

[Vnolan]

We've definitely confirmed that NMs can spawn in different weather from their spawn fodder.

If they were on cooldown or if the required mobs were killed outside the weather that spawns them (pulled before weather change), right? If it spawned in the latter case, it would be when the mob died, not several Eorzean hours later.

Anapos spawned a little over 2 hours and 33 minutes (rl) into the instance. There was no spawn of Anapos until then. If Anapos was spawned (when cooldown starts) and killed one second before I entered the duty, that would mean a 2.5 hour+ (rl) cooldown. It spawned about 6 minutes (rl) after the last sprite was killed. There was no NM up right before it spawned and both elemental conflicts were up.

Either the cooldown for Anapos is longer than two hours, something was preventing it from spawning, there is another requirement besides killing those sprites or there is a bug somewhere.

[Myriads]

3) spamming bunny FATEs in an attempt to get all Hakutaku eyes. I am in the camp that is spamming the bunnies and have been doing so for the past few days, so I have not really been trying to spawn the lower-level NMs (which, sadly I would like to do if these eye drop rates were not so atrocious).

Question for you. In your bunny farming have you gotten the Happy Bunny Card? And if so from one or both level fates?

Also I'm curious about the eyes. Do those all drop from one or both fates?

I appreciate the answers if you have them.