Rare Spawns DO become broken, I'm sure you can agree

[Kaelani]

I'm now over halfway through the 4th straight day camping Thome. I now have more than a few guildies helping me out by either finding other rares to kill or patrolling Farhall on the lookout for Thome.

I put in a ticket for a GM, because from everything I am hearing Thome shouldn't normally take this long to respawn. As for him spawning when someone wasn't looking...it didn't happen. The GM verified that he last spawned over 4 days ago...approximately right before I set up camp (how messed up is that lol).

I have killed 24 (and counting) rares over the past 4 days on Ember Isle. What is the deal with Thome?

Camping isn't necessary in EI.
When one rare dies, another spawns.

Check if Thome is up...
If he isn't up, loop through the other 19 rare spawn points, until you find which is up.
Kill it.
Rinse and repeat.

I only need Argyros on EI, but that rare spawns on the Invasion Superhighway that is Forlorn Fen.
It has a life expectancy best measured in seconds.
Not broken.... just a bit frustrating.

As far as the rest of the world rares, I need Aelfar Emissary, Dozer, Experimental War Golem, Mad Hogger, and The Predator.
Once in a while, I find myself hoping for Trion to have major technical issues, where they need to restart the server a few times while I'm actually home.

It is a bit amazing I've been playing over a year, since open beta, and I've *NEVER* seen any of these five.
It seems wrong to have to wait for outside human intervention to get a mob to spawn, but it is what it is.

[Anuhart]

When one rare dies, another spawns.

Kaelani, that isn't true.

I've known at least 4 up together and none up at all.

[Kaelani]

Kaelani, that isn't true.

I got my first 19 using this method.
There was a whole group of us doing this.
Unless it's been after a restart, we've never seen more than one up at a time.
Four rares will pop up after a restart.
You kill it, and do the circuit, and there's another one up that wasn't up a few minutes before.
Also, I've never seen a time when there wasn't at least one up.

Odd that your experience was different.

[Anuhart]

I got my first 19 using this method.
There was a whole group of us doing this.
Unless it's been after a restart, we've never seen more than one up at a time.
Four rares will pop up after a restart.
You kill it, and do the circuit, and there's another one up that wasn't up a few minutes before.
Also, I've never seen a time when there wasn't at least one up.

Odd that your experience was different.

The thing is, you kill one then find another, it's easy to say it popped because you killed one.

But, was that rare up anyway, and more so, killing a rare won't stop another from spawning, the fact one did is not necessarily due to the fact you killed one.

This theory was rampant on day 1. Bob tells Bill, kill one and another pops. Bill kills one and runs into another, hey Bob was right. Bill tells Jim, Jim does the same.

I got the 20 on my cleric early on, I used them to tune solo specs, farming them all solo until I got the 20. Probably around 60+ kills before I got my last.

I then spent a couple of months patrolling the Isle pretty much 12+ hours every day and shouting them in /50, earning several people their 20 kills. I then did the same on 3 alts, all been 20/20 now for months. I then had lists of who needed what, /telling people from the list whenever one popped as well as /50 chats.

Then they made the purples BoE, I farmed them religiously for cosmetics and starter gear for newby 50's, while tuning solo specs for the other 3 classes and notifying the few people left who needed any for their 20/20. I must have well over 300 EI rare kills under my belt as well as the many times I simply /50 loc them and leave them.

I've done countless server restarts, seen 4 up at start, seen only 2 up at start. Chain killed 7 or 8 after a start and as few as 3, with nothing more for a few hours.

Whether after server start, midway between server starts or right before one, I've known EI rares swing anywhere from several up, to popping continually to none for a few hours.

There was absolutely nothing in there being only x at a time or killing one will force another. Server starts and the following hours always have had more rare spawns on the whole, simply because any cooldown there may be is wiped and the world needs to populate.

There have been some very obvious common rares on EI, and some very obvious rare ones too. Some factors are location, such as Argyros, but he is also a lot rarer in any case. Thome, Acalan, Osmas and Anato have been ridiculously common on the whole.

All that said, I have seen, recently, some very definite changes, with all rare spawns. Mainland is not populating as much on restarts but is doing so in the +8 to +24 hr period, some EI common rares have flipped to being a lot rarer, and the citizens you save in IPP (always been very rare) are not only popping every 2 or 3 hours, but when the one at Exilie's Den bridge pops, the one down the road does at the exact same time.

[Sargonnas_KoA]

Ever since Nytami's new spawn was introduced, it is VERY common for him to pop ~8 1/2 hrs after restart, with several reports of him popping again and even again on the same server within the next few hours. He does become illusive again thereafter though. Try it, for EU you are looking at ~10.45 am +, for NA you are looking at ~4.45pm +. Covering a bit earlier would be advisable though.

http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...re-events.html

I've been camping Nytami along with a couple of other people. So far we haven't seen anything at any time in the last four days, but my focus has been later evening and up through about 7am so its definitely possible.

[Anuhart]

I've been camping Nytami along with a couple of other people. So far we haven't seen anything at any time in the last four days, but my focus has been later evening and up through about 7am so its definitely possible.

If you can, donate your time to server start +.
While ideally you would be looking at the full 24 hrs after a server start (as Nytami was known to pop at the fountains often ~15 min to 1 hr after) since the eastern green spawn was introduced/fixed/made more common or w/e; the general rule is for him to show on that green ~8 hrs after and again up to twice in the next few hours.

It is not guaranteeing anything but giving you windows to better your chance. If you work normal day hours for example and are on NA, if server start is usually 8.00 am, this would mean hitting the green at 4.00 pm and camping could be very promising. That doesn't fit perfectly with general work times, but add a 2 hr downtime for maintenance and the window just became pretty good for average work hours.

Keep an eye out for ad hoc server starts, and use them.

There are of course, and always will be, 'rogue' spawnings at any time, but extremely rare.

[Anuhart]

Just to emphasise the 8 to 24 hours after restart being really promising lately.
This week Thursday to Monday so far.
Mad Hogger, Blackblood Drake, Emissary Kavernik, Pandora, Nela, The Predator, among multiple other not so rare mobs, all in the 8 to 24 hr window following last weeks EU 2.00am weekly start.

Nytami, Jom Turner, Razormane, Razorfang, Arctic Peakstalker, Stalker of Tears, Browncaps, among multiple other not so rare mobs, all within the 8 to 24 hr window following the EU restart two days later.

I basically went from 75/105 to 97/105 on my mage (and swapped to some alts for ones I already had) in those two 16 hr windows of +8 hrs to 24 hrs following restarts. While the time immediately after the restarts showed not a lot at all.

[bigsal82]

I think pandora may be broken. i've camped the little island for weeks and still have not seen her pop once on faeblight or byriel

[Anuhart]

I think pandora may be broken. i've camped the little island for weeks and still have not seen her pop once on faeblight or byriel

Killed her on Thurs on my server, she is very rare though.

[Pines]

Seen Nytami 3 times in the last 2 weeks within 30 minutes of server restart on Silkweb.

Down to 13 for my meta, got all the toughest ones except The Predator and Pandora.

[InDarkPlaces]

has anyone seen Gorehorn recently? someone said they saw it saturday but thats the only one i know of. camped for three days then got fed up

[Anuhart]

has anyone seen Gorehorn recently? someone said they saw it saturday but thats the only one i know of. camped for three days then got fed up

I killed him within the last week, can't remember when.

[dead2soon]

I've been checking the last 3 Moonshade spawns I need 20 times a day for the last month or so now. This just seems a bit silly don't you think?

[Anuhart]

I think pandora may be broken. i've camped the little island for weeks and still have not seen her pop once on faeblight or byriel

Just to add, as said further up, killed Pandora last Thursday a good few hours after the EU weekly restart.
Just killed her again now on another character, there was no usual weekly restart last night, however there was a one last Saturday.

So restart + ~16 hrs = 1 kill, restart + 5 1/2 days = 1 kill, within a week.

[Sargonnas_KoA]

Seen Nytami 3 times in the last 2 weeks within 30 minutes of server restart on Silkweb.

Down to 13 for my meta, got all the toughest ones except The Predator and Pandora.

Where was Nytami when you saw it?