Despot

[Meko]

A few of us went to sky last night to check on Despot pop and how it works. After close to 5 hours of killing, no pop. Anybody possibly pop Despot last night? Im just hoping this is not another SC 'fix'. Thanks in advance for any info.

[Minions]

Did you kill every despot PH? or just a select few (on one side?) As the patch reads.... the game may select 1 placeholder (unlike it use to) and you must kill that one, or it wont pop.

[Meko]

We killed the majority of them yes. We didnt kill all of them all the way down so maybe that is the catch. Just trying to find out if anybody figured out how it popped. Thanks Minions.

[Meko]

This is copied from the POL site update:

The party that defeats the monster required to cause “Despot” to appear will now automatically claim the NM.

[Credos]

I didn't interpret the update to Despot to change any of the actual spawn conditions of the mob, just the fact that now it will pop claimed like Olla Media / Grande.

[Meko]

I thought along the same lines that the conditions wouldnt change, just that it popped to party that last killed PH. We did spend almost 5 hours there without a single pop.

[Khajit]

perhaps the whole zone has placeholders now?

[Spekkio]

perhaps the whole zone has placeholders now?

that would be kinda cool if we could fight on the other islands too to try to pop him. bitch to know his ToD though.

[Venture]

Have to wonder why this made sense to SE. If they were going to special condition Despot's pop, they might as well have given the Groundskeepers in that corridor Rare/Ex "Doll Shards" to pop him in the middle of the walk of doom. Missed a much better opportunity to take some more of the old school stupid out of sky.

[bebeci]

Have to wonder why this made sense to SE. If they were going to special condition Despot's pop, they might as well have given the Groundskeepers in that corridor Rare/Ex "Doll Shards" to pop him in the middle of the walk of doom. Missed a much better opportunity to take some more of the old school stupid out of sky.

Probably requires recoding a new item, a drop rate, etc.

Basically, they just took Biast pop condition, and applied it here.

[Daahan]

Ironic that they added this just a couple weeks after I zerged sky for Byakko pop items. We had Despot ganked from us twice lol.

I like the making it like Ulli idea better, but since Despot usually becomes "Despot's Aery" anyway, whoever gets the right placeholder gets Despot. It's a lot better than having 20 people stand in front of the blue light where the next PH is supposed to pop trying to spam claim for it.

[fndragon]

We tried popping Despot last night for about two hours total. No luck getting anything resembling him to appear. We pulled placeholders north to the entrance and killed there, and we never saw him pop in the alcoves (widescan and our pullers), and he didn't "appear" when any placeholders died (ala Olla or Biast).

[MogKnight]

Went up to Despot today, fought every single alcove Groundskeeper one at a time and spawned Despot within one hour. Despot spawned right on top of the dead Groundskeeper when it died.

Other than that... we just know it still exists. <.<

[Diametric]

Just killed Despot about an hour ago, the other groups there were still staring at the empty chargers waiting for him to appear. Do people not read the patch notes or something? We killed up and down the rows and he popped within 15 minutes of our arriving.

[Judai]

I'd like to use this thread to officially say fuck you to everyone who bitched and cried about Despot before. Just killed like 200 Dolls, mass killing them all alone and he wouldn't pop. This is after we killed him earlier, which took like 2hrs of killing Dolls as well.

There was nothing wrong with him before but it seems SE made his lottery chance hella lower or increased his repop timer or something. Despot looks like it sucks now.

[Meko]

Thanks for the info. Just a side note to my original post: We had a group of 8 up there for the entire duration and no other groups were there. Maybe there is no spawn time just a lottery and we were unlucky, nonetheless, thanks for the info.

[Thevaultdweller]

Started with about 7 people earlier today, about 4.5 hours ago. Gradually we've added people as they get home from work or get bored of exping. No pop yet, and we've been killing up and down the rows. A JP friend was trioing them before we came up and left just as we got there, and he said they hadn't seen a pop in the four hours they'd been there, killing all statues as well.

[Thevaultdweller]

Update: Coming up on 7 hours now, no pop. Chain 55 on statues. Additionally, my JP friend told me that one of his friends was camping 3 hours prior to when his trio came up, and saw no pop, so 14 hours with no pop if all of this info is correct. (SC all over again?)

[BRP]

Anyone feel like killing every single doll in an alcove throughout sky?

[Chuckystuffs]

To continue on TVD's post we are killing in the ally at the moment as well as have a party killing statues on all of the islands just in case he can pop somewhere else. All in total i have got about 6k exp on my blm