Elite Hunt Marks

[Niiro]

I'm gonna go ahead and say it's still SEs fault for not doing anything about mob display priority for marks.

[Meresgi]

Not even primetime and on a weekday and was unable to see several A ranks. On top of everybody pulling earlier than usual.

Gee, thanks SE!

Need to pull fast so you can get to those B ranks...oh wait.

[Arthars]

the B nerf means my 3 sub characters cannot cap soldiery and get decent allied notes for the week in a day.....

the dailys means i have to spend 4 times more time waiting for fates than do pre nerfed B hunts

MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

but still no biggie... but hell this DOES reduce the amount of peeps doing hunts now, even tho A dies fast still because people pulls faster now after long waits

[Niiro]

If anything I'd like to expect this to cause people -not- to be as impatient and pull early.

A-s will be found sooner and broadcast sooner since people won't be leaving zones with As open to chase Bs, meaning it should take people less time to gather at As in general.

The whole deal is much more relaxed now that you only have to worry about multiple mobs if multiple As pop at the same time (which happens ofc, but not nearly as often as As and Bs popping at the same time did).

[Kuishen]

If anything I'd like to expect this to cause people -not- to be as impatient and pull early.

A-s will be found sooner and broadcast sooner since people won't be leaving zones with As open to chase Bs, meaning it should take people less time to gather at As in general.

The whole deal is much more relaxed now that you only have to worry about multiple mobs if multiple As pop at the same time (which happens ofc, but not nearly as often as As and Bs popping at the same time did).

I mean, it's possible that what I experienced was a post-patch rush. But I doubt it. People are pulling early because they're fearing not being able to see the mob if they wait too long, which is a valid fear considering that nobody is off doing B ranks anymore, there are a LOT more people at As.

I'm pretty sure this patch had the opposite of the intended effect on A ranks.

[Niiro]

I've never had an issue seeing As, and my PC is old as fuck.

People need to learn to down effects, disabling flying text alone makes a huuuuuge difference.

(turning off names/HP bars for PCs and unengaged mobs helps as well)

[Icarian]

You shouldn't have to mess with effects so the mob doesn't magically disappear, I barely have FPS hiccups when many people gathers but once a certain threshold is met, the mob goes *poof* and I have to play with the camera angle so it appears again, it's really annoying.

[Niiro]

You shouldn't, but thanks to SE's shitty programming you do.

PC specs be damned (apparently).

I've never had a mob disappear on my that wasn't an S, and even then I can keep them visible most times (problems occur most when they're moving a lot).

If As are disappearing on you, you've got a problem, lower the crap on your screen.

[Sephiroth]

How do you unlock the ability to aethernet to White Wolf Gate in Gridania? People keep saying get to Central Shroud spawns via that but it's not listed. Can't get through the gate at all.

[Raldo]

You have to complete a quest first. I believe it starts right at the main Aetheryte, if I recall correctly. Once the quest is complete, you can port out to C.Shroud via the Aethernet and land outside the White Wolf Gate, and you can also re-enter that way by speaking with an NPC.

Here's the quest on xivdb

You must not be the type to just complete all the quests because the random ! markers bug the shit out of you.

[Sephiroth]

You have to complete a quest first. I believe it starts either right at the main Aetheryte, or at the White Wolf Gate itself (inside Grid -- far west side of New Grid). Once the quest is complete, you can port out to C.Shroud via the Aethernet and land outside the White Wolf Gate, and you can also re-enter that way by speaking with an NPC.

You must not be the type to just complete all the quests because the random ! markers bug the shit out of you.

Thanks, now found it. It's the quest right of the main aetheryte, given by Tyoh Moui.

I was keeping the Gridania and Ul'dah quests for when they add new classes. Only battle class I had to level for ARR was ACN and used LL for that. Quests are pretty boring so doing them to get rid of the ! isn't enough motivation.

[Cairthenn]

Safat just spawned at ~7AM ET within minutes of a ton of people falling to 1HP. Not saying it's for certain the condition, but that's obviously not near a weather change at all.

[Kuishen]

You shouldn't, but thanks to SE's shitty programming you do.

PC specs be damned (apparently).

I've never had a mob disappear on my that wasn't an S, and even then I can keep them visible most times (problems occur most when they're moving a lot).

If As are disappearing on you, you've got a problem, lower the crap on your screen.

Oh ok. I mean it's not like I tried the most obvious of fucking solutions or anything. Just because you don't have problems with it doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist on an entirely different server. There were visibly a lot more people at all the A ranks yesterday. It was better today but it's still a lot higher than it was before the patch.

[ilifin]

Safat just spawned at ~7AM ET within minutes of a ton of people falling to 1HP. Not saying it's for certain the condition, but that's obviously not near a weather change at all.

Remember that all triggers are instant, and the onl way to properly test them is to have someone at every single spawn location when you do the test and see if something happens when you do that test. Test it again when you have the chance and this time make sure you have the locations monitored ahead of time so you can verify!

We've had luck with the spamming of emotes on Excalibur, but again there's like 38 spawn locations in Coerthas and it's really hard to cover all of those.

[Cairthenn]

What I meant was it spawned on top of someone watching for it while they were doing it. They had just only spent a few minutes doing so. That said, lots of things happen at any given point that I can't see so I'm not going to say it's certain.

Not sure if you're certain on maintenance windows, but everything this morning popped as though the ToD was shortly after servers went down.

[ilifin]

Maintenance window respawns are still a mystery to me. I've tried to pinpoint how it's supposed to work, but they keep bringing the servers "live" without letting players in, and sometimes they don't, meaning sometimes the mobs are all already up in the zones and sometimes they show up after one hour and sometimes they show up after some other arbitrary amount of time passed since the server went live. I can't get real data

[Wulfgang]

An issue wherein, if a currently held weekly elite mark bill that was accepted during a previous week had the same target as the current week’s elite mark bill, and the elite mark was slain, then the current week’s elite mark bill, even if it is still unaccepted, is also counted as being completed.

I got screwed with this this week; hoping a new bill is available when I log in, but not the end of the world if it's on a go-forward basis only. Had Vuokho elite mark from last week, killed on Tuesday night, went back to get the new elite mark bill, and couldn't get it because it was Vuokho again and the game got confused.

[Sephiroth]

I got screwed with that in the second week of 2.3 when we got double Naul and just assumed if you don't complete it within the week the one you had is your new weekly. But then I didn't complete last week's and got 50 instead of the 25 I was meant to get last week (awesome) and it did let me pick up another.

[Alkimi]

Probably a bug, but if you picked up your weekly before maint but killed it after maint, you can pick it up again. Free 50 seals.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Gonna call false, unless my reset-reset happened to be a 2nd Stinging Sophie that I can't pick up. I did one from a long-previous week, Sophie this week, and then couldn't pick anyting more up for the week's weekly.