I still think timer pop is ....boring....

Get more creative with conditions of starting battle. If there are a bunch of LS's sitting around waiting for the same bad guy to pop, SE has failed me in the creative department.

You can have a wolfman pop once a month on full moon, you can use weather, prior quests/story, just plain random assault, etc. But popping on a timer in the same rough location just seems kind of ...sad... for a video game made in 2010/11.