Almighty Apkallu

[Titanss]

If the mob was @ 100% it would have been up 0% would mean a despawn.

It appears in memory exactly as it was at the time of despawn.

This is correct.
I will seriously stay up for 12 hours tonight from 10PM > 10AM and set HP in Nashmau.
I'll make a list of all the mobs and when they spawned and despawned... I need to skill up Fishing anways.
I won't kill any mob other than AA or shit I fish up.
I'll post the data here tomorrow morning before I sleep.

Dunno how you search the memory for that, with NPC.exe it always says 100% if the mobs up so maybe you seach ffxi memory?,dunno, but anyway.. Next week I should be able to see this NM if your saying it is showing up in the memory as poped and despawned. (if thats the case)

[Mokou]

It's been just over an hour since maintenance ended and it shows up in memory on Unicorn.

[Titanss]

What memory? NPC.exe? Or are you talking about something else.. Like ffxi(dat) memory?

Edit: I dunno how you search the ffxi(dat) memory but wouldn't it just show up mobs that exists? Please enlighten me on this someone ..

[Lilswitche]

At this point in time, being that it popped on Unicorn. I would suggest maybe a bunch of us cross-server should camp AA right off the hop on maintenance and pray to god that he already hasn't had his chance to pop. I'm out of ideas really.

[Mokou]

At this point in time, being that it popped on Unicorn. I would suggest maybe a bunch of us cross-server should camp AA right off the hop on maintenance and pray to god that he already hasn't had his chance to pop. I'm out of ideas really.

I considered this, but it wouldn't work. I tried logging a mule off on the boat and then logging on a couple of minutes after the next ship left and it just kicked me off on to the Whitegate dock.

[Titanss]

Itd take a shit load of patience to ride the boat back and forth...100% not poped on Cerberus yet..

[Breemer]

[quote=Max™]

The Shikigami-Apkallu theory should be moderately simple to test with Widescan, no?

Cant widescan on the boat, try again.

Compass/Radar?[/quote:j8ix487t]

no compass/radar on the boat either

[Khamsin]

Be careful when checking memory for him that you check the right spot. AA *will* be in memory regardless, since the full .dat for that zone is replicated in memory. But there's a certain part of memory where he will only appear if he's popped.

[Lilswitche]

At this point in time, being that it popped on Unicorn. I would suggest maybe a bunch of us cross-server should camp AA right off the hop on maintenance and pray to god that he already hasn't had his chance to pop. I'm out of ideas really.

I considered this, but it wouldn't work. I tried logging a mule off on the boat and then logging on a couple of minutes after the next ship left and it just kicked me off on to the Whitegate dock.

Logging off in Nashmau beside the dock, not on the boat.

[ByeByeTasai]

There is no radar on the boat...

edit: oop didn't see that other post about this.

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[Tulun]

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but maybe if 'he doesn't like being lonely', one of the pop conditions might be at least X number of people on the freakin' boat (which might also explain lack of pops; if you need a certain number on it, most people will just runic out there).

If so, that would be extremely lame, and dragging people out there (because I'm sure it has other conditions) to test it would just suck.

[ByeByeTasai]

OMG why didn't we think of that already??????


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[Indalecia]

Indy's zammite sense starts tingling.

[ByeByeTasai]

God i hope this wasn't it, but just a second before I was zoning back into Al Zhabi I heard the sound effect of something buffing itself and it was day time so no chance of it being a ghost. I was resting and reading this forum when I heard it and when I alt tabbed back over the screen was already going dark. Anyone know a safe place to download a tool that I can use to see if he's popped on Phoenix since maintenance?

[test123]

artmoney, PM me if you want it.

[Suiram]

Was it Blink? Could have been an Air Elemental.

[Titanss]

Is all SE said was the lonley thing? This is pissing me off . Still not poped on Cerberus since matinence. It was weird one boat ride no other NPC's were up the entire ride so I had a good feeling but alas same old shit different day..

[lost071]

Yeah, I'm starting to get really irritated with SE. They can't give us a better hint then "he doesn't like to be lonely"? this could mean multiple things. It could mean he won't spawn without other mobs around or that there needs to be a certain amount of players on the boat.

[Titanss]

O and also to the guy that was going to do the 12hrs straight thing could you possibly fish off the boat on the way to Al Zahbi the entire time also ...lol

[Byrthnoth]

The boat zones and monsters exist regardless of whether a boat trip is happening, right? It could be he's spawning at times when no one is in the zone, between docking and departing.

We can be fairly sure AA's spawn conditions aren't player dependent if he's spawning right after maintenance, yet it could be that his spawn conditions (maybe a lotto of one of the Apkallu in memory) are irrelevant because the only time that specific Apkallu has a chance to spawn is after maintenance.

Also, has everyone been camping up top? SE's goofy-ass hint might also mean that he's likely to spawn in the belly of the ship where more people would be standing around afk if that leg of the journey was used at all.

I'm fairly sure that when you log out on a boat you get booted at the last place the ship docked when you log back in, or you get back onto the same boat leg. So you could log out on the Nashmau -> Whitegate leg and potentially log right back in after Maintenance.