Ix Drg

[revon]

I didnt want to have to post to ask this but ive been talking about the pop conditions for Ix drg for the past few weeks now with my ls leader and its getting annoying.

We are having bad luck with Ix drg since it hasnt poped for us in many hrs of trying to pop it he has this stupid theory that the phs have to die inside the box area or it cant pop which i know to be untrue since ive seen it pop after ph got killed on stairs which i told him but the reply i get is "Ive done sea longer than you and never seen it pop when phs arent killed in box area."

He also has this theory about Ix drk i havent heard about before, Someone told him that if you pull aerns from the other sides to the area where the ??? is that you can get message from killing thoose aerns. Any feedback would be great thanks.

[spooky]

Sup Revon.
Oh yeah, also, lolOverdrive. :P

[shukuffxi]

I didnt want to have to post to ask this but ive been talking about the pop conditions for Ix drg for the past few weeks now with my ls leader and its getting annoying.

We are having bad luck with Ix drg since it hasnt poped for us in many hrs of trying to pop it he has this stupid theory that the phs have to die inside the box area or it cant pop which i know to be untrue since ive seen it pop after ph got killed on stairs which i told him but the reply i get is "Ive done sea longer than you and never seen it pop when phs arent killed in box area."

He also has this theory about Ix drk i havent heard about before, Someone told him that if you pull aerns from the other sides to the area where the ??? is that you can get message from killing thoose aerns. Any feedback would be great thanks.

Ix'DRG: We almost pop it every time in under 1 hour, typical manaburn setup (3-4 BLMs, BRD, RDM, COR, etc) usually to recap buffer so people just tag along and we pull and kill the Aerns 1 by 1, unless we have enough BLM to -ga3 them down. Just rotate through all the pop spots, and don't stop.

Ix'DRK: Fairly certain that dragging Aerns from other areas besides where the ??? currently is will not yield the animosity. I know a older LS I was in tried it at one point with a few Aerns, no luck. Perseverance.

We generally do both when we go to sea for a quick buffer recap/hunt for pop items/capes, and get both in under 1 1/2 hour, but we literally never stop moving to kill, only at Ix'DRK do we ever stop while waiting for repops.

[Butcher]

My LS has a theory that its designated room to pop changes every 15-30 mins, So just have 2 groups of 2-3 BLMs and a RDM together and take one room out at a time. Usually we get it to pop within 30 mins - 2 hours, but i've had bad streaks like yours before.

[revon]

We pretty much just manaburn them unless a blm goes afk or not enough there and its when we meleeburn them outside of box area
then he starts saying this crap and its been like 12+hrs of it not poping so hes blaming it on that or so it seems.

[Butcher]

Most of the time we kill the Aerns out of the box, so his theory is out the window.

[Alibeemac]

Have seen Ix'DRG pop after the first mob killed and have also gone up to 4hrs with no pop. You don't need to kill in the box as I have killed this many times in small groups of BLMs who kill at the porter up the ramp. It is one of these annoyingly random lotto things.

With Ix'DRK, dragging Aerns from the other rooms doesn't work. I recommend Ix'DRK with a small group of people as a full alliance massacring all 3 Aerns within 2 mins to then wait 13 mins on repops at the ??? is quite possibly the most boring thing you can do >.>

[amylea]

I'm like, 99% sure we've had Ix'drk pop from outside aerns.

[Builttolast]

Any of the rooms seems to work, and yes we fight on the ramp more often than not. We certainly haven't noticed any pattern (nor do we kill outside aerns). We just roam from corner to corner until someone gets the message. The most important thing is to kick anyone from alliance that is AFK so you see the message and are able to pop before it expires. It can take 30 minutes it can take 4 hours. We've noticed both extremes (even not popping within that timeframe). We know nobody had the message because the ??? will tell you if anyone has the means to pop it.

[vegetaa]

I'm like, 99% sure we've had Ix'drk pop from outside aerns.

Same.
But I didn't see this happen for a long time, so I think it has been fixed at some point in the past, or is simply very rare.

[Aihree]

I'm reasonably sure the ixDrk my LS popped last thursday was from an outside Aern, but as others have said, ixDrk is boring as hell. We keep pulling anything short of Qn'zdei just to keep people doing things and active while waiting for the room itself to pop.

[Wizrow]

Ix'drg is a horrible horrible mob. I've done 10 hours over three days without a spawn. I've also killed it, got a link on the kill shot, killed the add, and it's spawned.(so back to back spawn is possible. there is absolutely no respawn timer).

[rithridan]

When I'm doing Ix'DRG I always seem to pop it straight away (first 3 to 6 Aerns) or I won't see it spawn before everyone in my LS is gathered in Al'Taieu. I was farming it once with another LS BLM and we were just killing the 2 rooms near the porter with it never popping for 2 hours straight when he suggested we try popping it in one of the other 2 rooms when it popped on the first mob we killed in the 4th room counting from where you enter. Then the next day we started out by killing all 4 rooms and obviously it didn't pop.

I doubt theres any crazy pop theory involved in Ix'DRG other then "/random".

[Suiram]

My pet theory has always been that when Ix'DRG dies or depops or there's server maintenance, the game assigns to it a room (NW,NE,SW,SE) and a number between 0 and 11. When the death of an aern in the assigned room brings the total number of aerns in all rooms to the assigned number, Ix'DRG will pop.

I'm not trying to say by any means that this has been proven, but I've yet to see it disproved, and it would explain a number of nuances about the pop, like how certain methods for popping it seem to be more effective overall than others, and like how back when I used to do frequent manaburn PTs alternating camps between the bridge SW of the elevator, and the SE Ix' room and the ramp room just north of it, Ix'DRG would either pop the very first time we cleared the SE room, or would never pop at all even over the course of many hours.

Also, even though others have already said as much, I've seen Ix'DRG pop when we were camped on the ramp at the edge (interestingly he'll pop yellow-named and non-aggro, but if you walk down the ramp into the room he'll turn red-named and come at you), and for Ix'DRK I've never had sheer animosity triggered from an aern outside of the ??? room--but perhaps it would work if the aern you pulled was from one of the other 3 possible ??? rooms rather than a ramp room?

[In Flames]

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...07_09_25_b.jpg

That's how random ix'drg is.

We've gone 2-3 hours quite a few times without it ever popping =/.

I'm sure i've seen ix'drk pop from aerns dragged into the room, but i can't say for certain.

[Agrona]

Our ls has such horrible luck with Ix'drg popping. His pop room changing every 15-20 mins might actually make some sense. We've had a blm pt out at drg manaburning one room at a time and they didn't get a pop after literally 12 hours. The next day we got him in the first room we went to. Ix'drg ftl.

[tyraravenlocke]

Ix'drg is easily my most hated mob in the game.

I used to manaburn in those rooms when I was a bit less informed and I NEVER EVER SAW HIM, for well over 30+ hours of manaburning.

Now that I'm a bit.. wiser.. I still pretty much never see the fucker.. unless I just take people around and gank all 4 rooms nonstop.

Sadly.. this is the best way to do it.