Almighty Apkallu: Found, and then lost again.

[Khamsin]

Possibly like Nussknacker with the only chance it pops is lets say Double Wind Weather?

The best way to find out is to have sleeper cells, yes I know it sounds stupid. Some one ride the ship all day and when he or she gets tired some one else can jump on the ship to take their place. This would involve quite a large amount of people or a small group of hardcore players seeing how if the pop conditions are like Nussknacker you can be at camp around 48 hours or more haha.

Is there some one in Al Zahbi who gives weather conditions?

Whitegate, but doesn't give ferry weather :/

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Sajaaya

But if tomorrow after maintenance it shows AA @100% and neither the thunder or wind element has popped we can forget that.

That's the problem with the weather, is you can't ever tell if or when it's wind on the boat other than riding it over and over, and I've never seen wind on the boat, though I know it's possible. But probably a safe assumption to make, that if there's no elemental but AA's popped, it's unrelated to weather.

[Pergo]

i've seen plenty of air elementals, wind weather isn't too rare for the boat...

but come to think of it, thunder weather is... i want to say i've never seen thunder elemental, but i'm pretty sure i have, most commonly i think when imp is up

[Guitarman]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

[Massimo]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

I don't see how the undeads attacking, has anything to do with luck.

[DanielRemora]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

I don't see how the undeads attacking, has anything to do with luck.

Depends how you look at it. It could be a lottery, once the initial conditions are met.

Things like this had BETTER be wrong, though.

[Massimo]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

I don't see how the undeads attacking, has anything to do with luck.

Depends how you look at it. It could be a lottery, once the initial conditions are met.

Things like this had BETTER be wrong, though.

It is.

[Koga]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

I don't do beseiged and I have been on the boat when Undead are attacking/advancing and have yet to see it spawn under that condition.

But based on your post.. it would mean that it would pop within a week of servers being up. Yet some servers still do not have AA loaded into memory which would disprove that theory.

[Pergo]

i'm pretty sure i've been on the boat when undead have been attacking/advancing, but i dont know, i'll check this out as soon as undead start building forces

another thing with the memory, i think its very easy for people to misread what they see on those memory things... i know alot of ppl who have posted have misread the art money info(including myself)

on terms of the "luck" thing... i think all of the 'cryptic' hints that were given just describes nms in general.... you're lucky if you see leaping lizzy... if they meant to say random ... thats different than lucky

[Sagacious Sundi]

Alright had to make an account to share my idea, heh.

I've been reading both topics, and throught id share this.

What about riding the boat when the undead swarm is advancing? Some nm's pop only under these conditions. Now, before anyone says it, yes i know it was tried before, a whm/blm said she rode the boat when the undead were ATTACKING not ADVANCING. What if someone were to ride the next boat from when the "undead swarm is advancing!" servmes comes up? Maybe that particular whm/blm didnt see AA because AA had already popped on the first boat since the advancing message, therefore she missed it. This could explain why some servers have seen AA and others have not a day or so after a maintenence; no undead swarm, no AA. Would also explain the ever so cryptic "he doesnt like to be lonely" hint from SE. All the mobs from Arpaggo are advancing toward Al Zhabi, so he goes on the boat looking to find people? I dunno.

Fun Fact: The Undead Swarm arrive in Bhaflau right infront of the entrance to Alzadaal, so they're probably not swimming towards Al Zhabi like some AA theories state.

[Napukin]

A friend of mine claimed that it jumped onto the ship and walked around for about twenty seconds before jumping back into the sea. He said it happened about five or so days ago, right after the boat had taken off. He ran up to the deck and charmed/uncharmed a kraken and then saw it. He didn't attack it because he heard figured it would have killed him. He said it was the size of a small hume.

If this is true then it's probably a timed spawn and despawn resets the timer. Something like 72 hours after 'death'.

[ozz]

A friend of mine claimed that it jumped onto the ship and walked around for about twenty seconds before jumping back into the sea. He said it happened about five or so days ago, right after the boat had taken off. He ran up to the deck and charmed/uncharmed a kraken and then saw it. He didn't attack it because he heard figured it would have killed him. He said it was the size of a small hume.

If this is true then it's probably a timed spawn and despawn resets the timer. Something like 72 hours after 'death'.

should be pretty easy to check the size of the dat for him

[Sagacious Sundi]

A friend of mine claimed that it jumped onto the ship and walked around for about twenty seconds before jumping back into the sea. He said it happened about five or so days ago, right after the boat had taken off. He ran up to the deck and charmed/uncharmed a kraken and then saw it. He didn't attack it because he heard figured it would have killed him. He said it was the size of a small hume.

If this is true then it's probably a timed spawn and despawn resets the timer. Something like 72 hours after 'death'.

should be pretty easy to check the size of the dat for him

I'm almost 100% positive that NMs are almost always larger than the normal variety but the size differences aren't seen in viewers, with a few exceptions (Son of Ansansi, Gurfurlur, etc., which all have unique models anyway.) Unless there are other ways to check this.

[Sekkite]

A friend of mine claimed that it jumped onto the ship and walked around for about twenty seconds before jumping back into the sea. He said it happened about five or so days ago, right after the boat had taken off. He ran up to the deck and charmed/uncharmed a kraken and then saw it. He didn't attack it because he heard figured it would have killed him. He said it was the size of a small hume.

If this is true then it's probably a timed spawn and despawn resets the timer. Something like 72 hours after 'death'.

Server and when did he see it?

[Koga]

sorry. poidh.

[Pergo]

A friend of mine claimed that it jumped onto the ship and walked around for about twenty seconds before jumping back into the sea. He said it happened about five or so days ago, right after the boat had taken off. He ran up to the deck and charmed/uncharmed a kraken and then saw it. He didn't attack it because he heard figured it would have killed him. He said it was the size of a small hume.

If this is true then it's probably a timed spawn and despawn resets the timer. Something like 72 hours after 'death'.

i recently got PM'd by someone (will stay anonymous unless they want to post), but he said he used ffxi app to pop a fake image of where the nm despawned last, and it was the size of a mithra... which would fit in with the size of a small hume

i'd personally love to see it

[Sagacious Sundi]

sorry. poidh.

My whole view on "POIDH" got turned around after Ravin Raven was discovered.

[Pergo]

http://i10.tinypic.com/82a8gvn.png

courtesy of treacherous (its not the real nm, but the size)

[Demosthenes11]

LOL fuck you, thought it was found ;;

[TacoTaru]

LOL fuck you, thought it was found ;;

[Pergo]

lol sorry ... but that does look pretty big... i'd say maybe a little bit bigger than the higher level apkallu in arrapago/zhayolm (those are pretty big too)

he said ffxiapp can show thats where the nm depopped at 100%