Named spawn rate tied to your Hunter Achievement status?Follow

Uzrinar the Damned...

After a ridiculous number of clears he finally spawned for me at 234,586,1166 at the beginning of a bridge behind the hut with 3 apes.

Since this spot is mentioned nowhere, not even on Magelo, I do think it's likely that any ape can be a PHer but I'm not about to prove it by continuing with this endless camp.

This was a painful camp which I just about gave up on, TBH. I had a gut feeling this Sunday morning, logged in and cleared every ape except for the 3 in the hut who actually killed me due to not paying attention. By the time I rezzed, ported to my GH to rebuff and returned, this shy guy had spawned. He blinds and forces you to feign death so you can't cast even thru the blind till you stand up.

About time! Now for Seedspitter and then done with this zone!

I think I can continue to make my case for Hunter named spawns to get scarcer for a player who has completed most of the hunter kills for a zone.

Breeding Grounds, updating my info from above.

I have 2 left, Akyail and Charra. I haven't even tried Akyail. Up to 27 clears of Charra's 2 PHers with no success. Mostly been doing this duo'd with my enchanter since it's easy to get a lot of adds around Charra. She has 5 of 11 completed, so that doesn't seem to help.

As I said in the post just before, the first 6 kills in the zone were very quick, 0-2 clears beforehand. Now I'm down to the last 2 and I'm up to 27 clears for just one of the nameds. I may switch to Akyail for a while, as I'm developing a case of "Charra Fatigue." No binding in this zone so it's annoying to get around.

RNG strikes again? Seems too pat to me. Just for the Rain of Fear Hunter Achievements, I've seen this phenomenon in 5 or so different zones. That's not random, in my book.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2019 7:33am by Sippin

4 clears for this last named, Akyail. Mucho relief, done with Breeding Grounds lol. On to Heart of Fear!

Yeah. this is counter-evidence to the theory behind this thread, except for his predecessor required 41 clears.

Akyail is the only Hunter named in this zone with THREE place-holders (all the rest have only 2) so I'm going to argue the 50% surplus of PHers affected the odds!

Edited, Mar 3rd 2019 3:15pm by Sippin

Hey there, back from some breaks and diversions, etc.

Just working on some Hunters, and the latest experience made me remember this thread :)

Finished Lceanium a few weeks ago, and have to say, none of the ones I camped (got quite a few just finding them randomly up) took particularly long. Of those I camped, the last two, the yeti in the cave and the spider in the cave, took less than an hour each to spawn. Respawns in there are fast, but still, it's less than 10 spawn cycles (times 3 spawn spots each).

Now have been working on ETWK. Now, I haven't been doing it strictly according to your method (break the names into groups ahead of time, work on one group at a time, etc). Got several who just happened to be up when I checked. The rest from killing PHs for 3-6 names at a time, with the list changing on the fly as I'd get some names, and then throw another PH spot into the mix. I'm now at the end of the list (Oklaric), and have now cleared the PHs 20x3 times, and still no name. Technically, this is by FAR the longest camp for me in this zone (none of the others even approached 10), so that would seem to back up your theory, however, this named spot was on my original set of spots to clear, and has remained as I've cleared all the others. So, it SHOULD have popped quickly at the beginning, since I only had a few names in the zone cleared, but it didn't.

Anyway, all just interesting data points. Now that I remembered this thread, when I start my next zone, I'll do the whole break into groups and just clear those groups thing, and report back.

My guess... somebody came through. Hard to believe not a single player might wander through from time to time. Especially since there are collectibles in there. That's the most likely reason someone came through.

I just logged in to update my recent post..... after camping for a while in ETWK this morning, I log in tonight, and there's my last namer sitting right there! So that zone is done (minus HA namers, but that's a separate achievement).

Unlike you, I do often clears the PHs right before I log, especially when it's a zone which doesn't get much traffic. And, as you can see, it benefited me today. Twice actually, since this morning, I got the next to last namer I needed in that zone, who was up when I logged in, because I cleared the PH last night ;)

Tower of Rot went smooth as silk. I did the nameds one by one since zone isn't bindable. No named was particularly tough. One spawns in an instance and I was worried about that since some players mentioned doing it 15-25 times before they got the named to pop. Well, I followed the advice of one player in the mission thread as to how to shortcut the mission to get right to the point where named "has a chance" to spawn and, sure enough, she did spawn. 15 minutes start to finish and now I'm done with Tower of Rot. This zone refutes my contention in this thread altho that's far from definitive. This zone could just be an exception. The +76% increased spawn rate for Independence Day holiday week may be a big factor as well.

Reward is a decent 32-slot bag, which ain't bad reward at all for slaughtering 10 mobs. If I had known that going in I'd have run it for my whole group.

Edited, Jul 1st 2021 7:28pm by Sippin

Depends how you define "older". I would not put CotF (N4G) into that category.

And there are no collectibles before RoF.

If you want to call anything pre-collectibles "older", I'd mostly go along with that, with the exception of VoA and HoT. Doesn't matter when I go through any of those (HoT, VoA, RoF, CotF), there are always other players around. Maybe not in every zone, but somewhere in the expac, and since I'm not on much anyway, that tells me all of those zones likely get at least some daily traffic.

I'm going to assume most mobs are all just tied to the RNG with an equal chance to show.

I've been doing the hunter achievements since they included them in-game and have HoT through CoV (T1 only) 100% complete. I just started working this year on LoY, skipped LDoN, and am doing GoD through UF with the introduction of those earlier this year. I sit in the zones for about 10 hours, Monday through Friday with my alt ranger and mage, while grouped with my main crew for credit.

It's slow going, but everything eventually spawns given the time and the right PHs. I've tried to come up with a handful of spawn theories, but nothing holds true. I camp out at night, note the rares that are up on track and then when I camp in the next day, see what names are up and which are down. Most of the time, it's the same rares I logged out with. On the rare occasion the rare list has changed in my tracking window, I chalk it up to someone came into the zone for something and killed a rare on their way. Every once and a while some lower level players will show up for a lesson burn, or to camp one particular mob. There's even been a few 100+ players coming for a few rares for their own hunter.

On a side note, thanks Gidono for adding all the new hunter tasks to the site. I'm trying to grab screenshots, map locations, spells, and loot as I make my way through, but I predict it will take a good 6+ months for me to get around to uploading them all.

For anyone else out there doing hunters, good luck--I find it fun!

So any other raider having this issue - lol

I have been in and out of our Hunter raid so its frustion when i drop out to raid for my Guild Raids and now I see spam some rare mob was killed and only my alts get the win - lol

Finally got Aquadominus Selestian to spawn. Required about 30 clears of PHers, the last 15 or so of the entire floor, approximately 50 mobs at a time. So I probably had to kill over 1000 mobs to get this named to spawn.

The previous 9 nameds for the Hunter achievement, I estimate I had to kill about 25-30 mobs TOTAL to get all 9 to spawn. I was fortunate to have 3 of them "up" the first time I zoned in.

Working on Korafax next. 10 named mobs for the hunter achievement.

Bad RNG Luck, that is.