Rising Event

[Deithwen]

The Japanese text also had nothing in it to insinuate that the spawn times of the NPC were going to be random. The “exercises occur irregularly” seemed to be referring to the nature of the FATE spawns within the instance.

And, from what I have read, the JP playerbase also stood waiting around wondering when the NPC would spawn—even wondering if they had to do something special to spawn him.



And if there is no pattern?

Regardless, this was a poorly implemented event. More so because the developers could not even be bothered to inform its playerbase that it would set up timeslots for each region to participate, and instead they just let them stand around and wait while saying only “it’s working as intended”. It is absolutely rude to not inform your playerbase that an anticipated event such as The Rising will have a random/limited spawn factor to its content. This was never done before for any other past event.



Okay, so we have:
—9pm to 12am PST, where the NA servers are located.
—9pm to 12am JST, where the JP servers are located.

Where are the EU servers (time zone-wise) and what was the exact spawn time for him yesterday? Was he up 9pm to 12am during the EU’s server time? Can anyone from EU answer this? I want to write down these times and see if he spawns again at the same time today/tomorrow.

If the windows are consistent, at least we will have the windows for the Recruiter (if they’re consistent—wouldn’t surprise me at this point for it to be entirely random, but I’m hoping that isn’t the case). But this is still incredibly awful design—the NA times are 11pm to 2am my time, 12am to 3am for my best friend, and fairly early hours for people who may be in EU but play on NA data centers. Same for anyone, really, in a different region from their home region’s data center.

I managed to get inside the instance at around midnight Paris time, so 10 pm (GMT), from the phoenix server. I am not really sure when the npc spawned precisely, but it's likely it has spawned at 9pm GMT.