Sandworm repop

[Demonic]

Seen it pop soon as window opens (20hr mark) and right before window closed (25hr mark). Just saying. :/

[Gtype954]

sandworm HAS popped a SECOND time within 1hr to 2 hours after the first sandworms TOD. I have been studying Sandworm for 2 weeks now and it has popped TWO times in ONE day all within a 1-2 hr repop on the 2nd sandworm.

People on the server have spoken to a GM, and this incident has been happening after the 7 hour server maintenance day.
It seems like sandworm is no longer a 20-25 hour pop. This isn't the first time a mob has had their spawn time changed. Eastern Shadow used to be 21-24 hours and they changed him to 16-32 hours. So Sandworm was possibly changed.

This has happened for 2 weeks now where sandworm would pop twice in a 1day but has never be seen to pop 3x in 1 day as of yet.
On the HQ day, The HQ only pops from one the sandworms and not both sandworms that day.
As of your theory of Sandworm absorbing RR, after the update, mobs (most) are no longer able to absorb or dispel RR effects.
The GM was not allowed to tell me if what the new Sandworm respawn is because he cannot discuss gameplay related stuff, he wouldn't even give me a yes or no answer to if it at least got changed.
He did tell me however, after going afk to ask someone (no idea who they ask) But he said hold on one second... then about 4 mins later told me that "They"* said the sandworm is working as intended and there is nothing currently wrong with it. He said if "they" found anything out, that he will notify me with the results thru playonline mail, but that nothing is wrong whatsoever with the sandworm.

*As for "they"... not sure who he was referring to as they... do they talk to senior GMs, talk to SE staff, who do they talk to to get the info on the fly like that.

Sandworm pops twice a day and the 2nd one always seems to pop 1-2hrs after the first ones death. They have been for the last 2 weeks, popping in 2 different zones. (but if it follows the same depop rules, its possible to get it to pop in zones that would take you to the same bcnm NM twice i'm sure).

Just to make sure I cannot get banned for it, I asked if it would be against the Terms of service to kill both sandworms should we discover it. He said it is working as intended and there should be no problems. He said if I notice anything funny with the distribution inside the sandworm, that I should contact a GM though. (pretty sure that he meant the duping there but did not want to tell me just in case I hadn't known about the trick lol)
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summary.

- Sandworm pops twice a day
- It is meant to pop twice a day.
- 2nd sandworm pops 1-2 hrs after the first sandworm.
- the repop time is completely unknown as of now.. the TODs were 13, 17,11,9 hours apart, probably due to the fact that noone scanned for it and the fact that it depops after every hour.

[Airenn]

Fun fact:

When installing WoTG on this computer, there is a pic in the install screen (when it cycles through pictures) of a chick fighting Sandworm...

With another Sandworm also in the picture in the BG.

Hmm. Was interesting.

[hellstorm]

That weird sandworm still 20-25 on our server there must be something you are doing make it repop. Or it a good glich.

[Rilu]

Yes, confirmed sandwork pops multiple times per day. My ls killed it at 6am CST and it popped again during a campaign on us about 2 hours later and we killed it a second time.

Just like previously posted, GM stated that it is in fact operating correctly, so we just don't have the REAL pop conditions for all instances of Sand Worm.

My personal theory would be that there maybe is a 21-24 spawn period on every zone it CAN pop in, and just because one LS kills it, everyone else knows about it and then stops scanning, it probably pops in obscure locations and despawns again.

[Neoex]

I still support my theory of 3 different sandworms, one for each of the 3zones (Ghoyu's Reverie, Ruhotz Silvermines, Everbloom Hollow)

1.Batallia Downs (S) East Ronfaure (S) = KA

2.Sauromugue Champaign (S) Meriphataud Mountains (S)
West Sarutabaruta (S) = Serket


3.North Gustaberg (S) Rolanberry Fields (S) = Guivre


ALL 3 on 20-25hour timers

Would also explain back to back HQ days.

Unless someone has fought the SAME one in a day which I havent seen yet, im still believing.


fixed.

[Jhun]

1.Batallia Downs (S) East Ronfaure (S) = KA

2.Sauromugue Champaign (S) Meriphataud Mountains (S)
West Sarutabaruta (S) = Serket

3.North Gustaberg (S) Rolanberry Fields (S) = Guivre

Fixed, Windy zones = Serket, Bastok zoned = Guivre.

Serket pops in 3 zones, while KA and Guivre pops in 2.

[hellstorm]

One thing that always wondered why does serket get 3 zones but other 2 only get 2. Is a plausible theory though the one we been tracking popped in same zone 3 days running.

[Mugekuge]

I still support my theory of 3 different sandworms, one for each of the 3zones (Ghoyu's Reverie, Ruhotz Silvermines, Everbloom Hollow)

1.Batallia Downs (S) East Ronfaure (S) = KA

2.Sauromugue Champaign (S) Meriphataud Mountains (S)
West Sarutabaruta (S) = Serket


3.North Gustaberg (S) Rolanberry Fields (S) = Guivre


ALL 3 on 20-25hour timers

Would also explain back to back HQ days.

Unless someone has fought the SAME one in a day which I havent seen yet, im still believing.


fixed.

My ls fought guivre twice 2 days ago, second one repopped 4 hours after first was killed, we got 2 black tathlum .

[Aragon of Odin]

I personally don't buy the 3 different SW theory. If this was the case I believe there would be a number of sightings of SW being up in 2 different zones at the same time, I'm yet to hear of this.

His pop times are however very confusing, we've gone 3 days with him not popping, we've seen days where he pops twice. On average he decides not to pop about once a week for us. For a good streak of near 2 months straight he didn't pop in a KA zone all but once, and that one time he did he didn't DV, past month or so it seems to be popping there now though.

Sometimes this NM just seems not to be worth it, to be walking around for 6 HRS straight trying to find him can be such a pain in the ass, why has his loot got to be so good.

[Flic]

From my experience this will normally pop between 20-25 hours after doomvoid.

Exception to the rule so far is if it skips a day you will get 2 either the following day, or the day after. First popping 44-49 hours after doomvoid, second popping 1 hour after doomvoid.

The reason it skips a day possibly linked to MMM but I have seen it happen once before MMM was introduced.

[Thorgridson]

I personally don't buy the 3 different SW theory. If this was the case I believe there would be a number of sightings of SW being up in 2 different zones at the same time, I'm yet to hear of this.

His pop times are however very confusing, we've gone 3 days with him not popping, we've seen days where he pops twice. On average he decides not to pop about once a week for us. For a good streak of near 2 months straight he didn't pop in a KA zone all but once, and that one time he did he didn't DV, past month or so it seems to be popping there now though.

Sometimes this NM just seems not to be worth it, to be walking around for 6 HRS straight trying to find him can be such a pain in the ass, why has his loot got to be so good.

I honestly didnt know about that, it semed to work fine when we decide to camp, but wow.. really weird.

[Katarzyna]

I personally never seen Sandworm pop twice in one day. Honestly, this is the first I'm hearing about it.

But the 20-25 (after Doomvoid) window is a lot more accurate than 21-24. Assuming that the intervals are 30 minutes, like other HNMs (which it may or may not be), I've seen him pop during the "first" window and the "last" window based on a 20-25hr repop time.

But this is interesting stuff. Looking forward to seeing how this further develops.