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  1. #1
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    Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    20+ hours and he hasn't popped.

    That is scattered over several different events in Sea from the past couple of months. He simply won't pop.

    We're doing everything right - we get a bunch of PS2 people to dc all at the same time...
    We have people running AFK a lot... Small groups, big groups, he just won't pop.

    What is the longest you have had to wait for a Ix'DRG pop? Do you have any lucky rituals that you use to make him pop?

    I have a feeling this is a case of bad luck at the lottery, and if so, please find me someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be alright.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    my ritual is to put 6 ppl at ix'drk, 6 ppl at chip-farming, and 6 at ix'drg. ix'drg will always pop first 15 minutes.
    only thing i can think that would help you is to make sure you're killing the correct aerns >_>;

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Dunno what to tell you other then just ask blms to xp on the aerns. He'll pop eventually and they can kill him np.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    spent 4-6 hours in there for about 10 days and only got him to pop twice... killing all the rooms ; ;

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    popped him 2 times on monday and once today ;x luck i guess

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    when I was about 65 BRD, I went with 5 BLMs up to ix'drg and thundagad rooms of three down in one volley. Popped it in about ~20 minutes. Two of those BLMs tried to duo pop it and spent over 10 hours with no pop--it really is all luck. If you keep the pace going, the exp honestly isn't too bad (a little lower than simply exping off of aerns for HQ organs since you have to move around a bit more often)

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Quote Originally Posted by Ehran
    I have a feeling this is a case of bad luck at the lottery, and if so, please find me someone to hold me and tell me that everything is going to be alright.
    E, this is just a shallow attempt to get a hug isn't it?

    And yes, he can be a bitch to pop. One time, there for five hours killing everything in sight, next time, third mob killed he popped.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    20+ hours and he hasn't popped.

    That is scattered over several different events
    Sounds like you are never trying to pop him for more then an hour or two at a time. Be prepared to spend 5+ hours just working on him. It seems like the more time you set aside for him, the faster he pops.

    I remember going up there where we only had 2 hours, and he never showed. Next time, we set aside 6 hours for him, and he showed up in under 20 minutes.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Quote Originally Posted by souleman
    I remember going up there where we only had 2 hours, and he never showed. Next time, we set aside 6 hours for him, and he showed up in under 20 minutes.
    Oh so true. Last time we popped him, we had a group set for all evening at him. This was when he popped third mob. Course the bastard only gave us the cape when we wanted a deed...

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Quote Originally Posted by Kirst
    Quote Originally Posted by souleman
    I remember going up there where we only had 2 hours, and he never showed. Next time, we set aside 6 hours for him, and he showed up in under 20 minutes.
    Oh so true. Last time we popped him, we had a group set for all evening at him. This was when he popped third mob. Course the bastard only gave us the cape when we wanted a deed...
    lolse

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Quote Originally Posted by souleman
    I remember going up there where we only had 2 hours, and he never showed. Next time, we set aside 6 hours for him, and he showed up in under 20 minutes.
    Fuck that.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    People have speculated that his chance to pop in a certain room may change every 30m or w/e. Kinda of like the moving ???s and such all about sea. So you could have just been continuesly killing Aerns in the wrong rooms in a sort of bad loop. In the end, if he is just normal lottery, that's how it goes sometimes. Lotterys suck ass sometimes and are very quick others.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    I think pop rate is inversely proportional to Ix'drg pop rate, and both go up and down. Every time I spend 5h+ on one without pop, the other will move quickly. Both Ix are generally very easy to pop, or pretty hard.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    My LS has spent about that amount of time with no pop too.

    We also got cape last pop.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    me and my friend have been duo on this. We went for 6 days farming 2-3 hrs a night no pop, finally popped 7th day after 4hrs and got 1 cape. went next day popped off first aern, now we're back in the 2-3 hrs no pop range. It's a pain in the ass.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Oh so true. Last time we popped him, we had a group set for all evening at him. This was when he popped third mob. Course the bastard only gave us the cape when we wanted a deed...
    Things like that annoy the crap out of me. In my last LS, I spent 3 months in sea without a single cape drop. Only 1 person in the shell had Ix'Drk cape that he had gotten over a month before I joined.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    From a personal experience of about 20 Ix'DRG its very random. Usually takes about 15 minutes to 1 hour for us to pop. However, the luckiest time we ever had it popped 2 times within about 5 minutes. Ix'DRG popped and we proceeded to kill while 2 of the room pops were still up. I was in an outside party that was kiting wynavs/holding the aerns. Killed Ix'DRG and then we killed the room aerns. Literally 10 seconds after Ix'DRG's body disappeared he repopped on the aern we killed.

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    Re: Frustrating Ix'DRG Question

    Duoing 2 rooms with RDM and BLM, 2-3 hours a night, 6months, saw 8 pops. Yea, we knew was difficult with only clearing 2 rooms, but wanted to try duoing strategies, so that was the only way we could.

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