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A Realm Reborn

Croque Mitaine  

Middle La Noscea                        Window: 67-75 (13 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 39-45 (6 hrs)

Gather Grade 3 La Noscean Soil

• Level 50 miner with 353+ Gathering required
• Truth of Mountains required to see the node
• 7-10 PM Eorzean Time at the southern tip of zone
• Slot 8
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Croakadile

Lower La Noscea                        Window: 50                                Post-Maint: 30

Run over Croakadile’s chosen spawn point between 5-8 PM Eorzean Time during a full moon

• This is called a “mine pop”, as you must run over the hunt’s chosen spawn point as an additional condition
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

The Garlok

Eastern La Noscea                        Window: 42-48 (6 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 21-29 (8 hrs)

200 irl minutes of no rain/showers

• This condition is retroactive; it can be met before the timer ticks to allow spawn (ie. if there have been 210 minutes of no rain and The Garlok ticks to allow spawn, it will immediately spawn).
• The Garlok is NOT a mine pop.
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Bonnacon

Western La Noscea                             Window: 62-75 (13 hrs)                 Post-Maint: 39-45 (6 hrs)

Gather La Noscean Leek

• Level 50 botanist with 408+ Gathering required
• Truth of Forests required to see the node
• 8-11 AM Eorzean Time NW of Swiftperch
• Slot 6
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Nandi

Upper La Noscea                         Window: 47-54 (7 hrs)                          Post-Maint: 28-32 (4 hrs)

Run over Nandi’s chosen spawn point with any minion out

• Whether you are mounted, unmounted, running, walking, or standing there has no effect on spawn
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Chernobog (formerly Mahisha) 

Outer La Noscea                         Window: 65-71 (6 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 39-43 (4 hrs)

Die

• Setting Home Aetheryte to Camp Overlook makes spamming deaths easy
• Can die anywhere in the zone
• Blue Mage’s Self Destruct DOES work
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Laideronnette

Central Shroud                                Window: 42-48 (6 hrs)                         Post-Maint: 25-29 (4 hrs)

Rain 2x in a row

• Pops 2:17 hours Eorzean Time into the second rain
• Laideronnette is NOT a mine pop.
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Wulgaru

East Shroud                                 Window: 66-78 (12 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 40-47 (7 hrs)

Initiate OR complete a Battlecraft or Grand Company Leve

• Which leve (as long as Battlecraft or Grand Company) and whether the leve is completed or just initiated has no effect on spawn
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Mindflayer        

South Shroud                                Window: 5✦                                Post-Maint: 30

Run over Mindflayer’s chosen spawn point between after Midnight Eorzean Time during a new moon night

• If Mindflayer does not pop the first night, it can spawn after 5 PM Eorzean Time the following nights
• This is called a “mine pop”, as you must run over the hunt’s chosen spawn point as an additional condition
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Thousand-cast Theda 

North Shroud                            Window: 58-68 (10 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 35-41 (6 hrs)

Fish a Judgeray

• Level 50 fisher with 330+ Gathering required
• 5-9 PM Eorzean Time at Fallgourd Float

• Wildfowl Fly bait (purchasable from Syneyhil in West Hawker’s Alley)
• Snagging not needed
• !!! bite
• Surface slap on a non-Judgeray hook helps RNG
• Must hit your inventory (cannot hook the fish and lose it, nor can your inventory be full)
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Zona Seeker

Western Thanalan                              Window: 58-68 (10 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 35-41 (6 hrs)

Fish a Glimmerscale

• Level 50 fisher with 330+ Gathering required
• Clear or fair weather at Horizon’s Edge (bridge in middle of southern half of the zone)

• Butterworm bait (purchasable from Syneyhil in West Hawker’s Alley)
• Snagging not needed
• Must hit your inventory (cannot hook the fish and lose it, nor can your inventory be full) 
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Brontes        

Central Thanalan                               Window: 66-78 (12 hrs)                        Post-Maint: 40-47 (7 hrs)

Eat food on Brontes’s chosen spawn location

• Which food, quality of food, and whether you are mounted, unmounted, running, walking, or standing there has no effect on spawn
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Lampalagua

Eastern Thanalan                    Window: 66-78 (12 hrs)                Post-Maint:40-47 (7 hrs)   

Initiate OR complete a Battlecraft or Grand Company Leve

• Which leve (as long as Battlecraft or Grand Company) and whether the leve is completed or just initiated has no effect on spawn
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Nunyunuwi

Southern Thanalan           Window: 44-54 (10 hrs)                 Post-Maint: 26-34 (8 hrs)

No FATEs fail for an hour

• Event FATEs DO count (eg. The Maiden’s Rhapsody FATE) as of newer events

• FATEs that you have to initiate DO count

• These FATEs stay up around 5-10 minutes before the NPC despawns and it is marked as failed
• Tested in January 2019; confirmed that you must do initiatable FATEs✦        

• Watch out for the quest in middle of desert (blocks a FATE you have to initiate)
• The hour of no failed FATEs must begin after the server ticks to allow spawn
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Minhocao

Northern Thanalan       Window: 57-63 (6 hrs)                 Post-Maint: 34-41 (7 hrs)

Kill 100 Earth Sprites

• Core Blimey FATE allows for easy mass killing of Earth Sprites and can be used to approximate kills (1 Earth Sprite Core drops per 1 Earth Sprite killed), but any Earth Sprite in the zone works
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Agrippa the Mighty 

Mor Dhona                         Window: 60-84 (24 hrs)                 Post-Maint: 36-50 (14 hrs)

Open a Treasure Coffer from any Treasure Map that ends in Mor Dhona

• Timeworn Toadskin, Boarskin, and Peisteskin maps: gathered by botanists and miners at any level 50 node; fished by level 50+ fishers with Snagging on at Lake Tahtotl (North Shroud), Parata’s Peace (Western Thanalan), Isle of Umbra Southshore (Western La Noscea), Reaver Hide (Western La Noscea), Witchdrop (Coerthas Central Highlands), North Shards (Mor Dhona), Rathefrost (Mor Dhona), The Tangle (Mor Dhona)
• Mystery Maps (Alexandrite): Must complete the Animus stage of Atma weapon and begin the Novus stage to unlock; cost 75 poetics from Auriana in Mor Dhona
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Safat

Coerthas Central Highlands         Window: 60-84 (24 hrs)         Post-Maint: 36-50 (14 hrs)

Get to “critical” (1) hp by jumping off of things

• Witchdrop is an easy place to spam this and is close to the Camp Dragonhead Aetheryte
• If you want to, can have 1 person jump then everyone else aim for them in a game of human darts
• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Heavensward

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)✦                Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

Kaiser Behemoth

Coerthas Western Highlands

Stand on Kaiser Behemoth’s chosen spawn point with the Behemoth Heir minion out

• Buy at The Forgotten Knight for 400 Centurio Seals
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Gandarewa

Churning Mists

Gather 50 Aurum Regis Ore and 50 Seventh Heaven

• Aurum Regis; 2 AM/PM Eorzean Time, slot 6
• Seventh Heaven; 4 AM/PM Eorzean Time, slot 1
• Truth of Mountains/Forests required to see the node
• Tome of Geological/Botanical Folklore - Dravania required to see the node
• Using abilities (Solid Reason and Ageless Words) to gather more at once helps meet the requirement faster
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Senmurv 

Dravanian Forelands

Complete the Cerf’s Up FATE 5x in a row without failing

• Just south of Anyx Trine
• Only one of Cerf’s Up, El Miacid, Elephant in the Brume, or Special Tarasque Force can be up at once, so doing these FATEs can push respawn
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Pale Rider

Dravanian Hinterlands

Open a Treasure Coffer from a Wyvernskin Map

• Gathered by botanists and miners at any level 60 node; fished by level 60+ fishers at Iron Feast (The Dravanian Forelands), Thaliak River (The Dravanian Hinterlands), Upper Thaliak River (The Dravanian Hinterlands), Aetherochemical Spill (Azys Lla), and Delta Quadrant (Azys Lla)

• RNG; can take more than 1 attempt

Leucrotta

Azys Lla

Kill 50 Allagan Chimera (x32,y6), 50 Meracydian Voivre (x11,y37), and 50 Lesser Hydra (x11,y37)

Image source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

Bird of Paradise

Sea of Clouds

Squonk (B Rank) using Chirp.

• Good place to afk, just let him hit you.
• RNG; can take more than 1 Chirp.

Stormblood

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)✦                Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

Salt and Light

The Lochs

Discard items 50 times anywhere in zone

• Stacks count as 1 item, but can be split into separate items to discard.
• Multiple people can contribute to this (eg. 2 people can drop 25 items each).
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met.

Udumbara

The Fringes

Kill 100 Diakka (Dimwold) and 100 Leshy (East End)

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Images source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

Bone Crawler 

The Peaks

Ride Chocobo Porters

• Spawns halfway through route
• Route doesn’t matter
• Ala Ghiri to Ala Ghana is easiest route to go back and forth.
• RNG; can take more than 1 trip

Orghana

The Azim Steppe

Complete Not Just a Tribute FATE (x13,y15)

• Mine pop; must fly over Orghana’s chosen spawn point after completing the FATE
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Some sources say the FATE only needs to end, not be successfully completed (silver failure rating or higher HAS spawned Orghana); just doing the FATE is usually faster, though
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met.

Okina

The Ruby Sea

Kill 100 Yumemi and 100 Naked Yumemi

• Can spawn from noon Eorzean Time before the first night of the full moon through the rest of the full moon, assuming enough Yumemi have been killed

• Any Yumemi killed after the random timer ticks to allow spawn count towards the required number; before then kills do not count

• Both Yumemi spawn in the 3 underwater caves

• With 1 person in all 3 caves takes about 30 minutes

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met.

Gamma

Yanxia

Stand on Gamma’s chosen spawn point with the Toy Alexander minion out between 5 PM - 8 AM Eorzean Time

• Minion drops from Alexander - Soul of the Creator (A12) normal and savage mode
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Shadowbringers

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)                Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

Ixtab

The Rak’tika Greatwood

Kill 100 Cracked Ronkan Dolls, 100 Cracked Ronkan Vessles, and 100 Cracked Ronkan Thorns.

• Found at the northernmost part of the zone, The K’mul Astropolis
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Images source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

Gunitt

Tempest

Drag a Clionid near 3 Deep-Sea Leeches, allowing the Clionid to eat the leeches and get a buff. Once the Clionid has a 3x buff, allow it to perform Buccal Cones

• Clionids and Deep-Sea Leeches are found near the entrance to Tempest from Kholusia, in the northern part of the zone
• Death is not required to spawn Gunitt
• RNG; usually takes 2-3 Buccal Cones. Tank invulns can be useful to accomplish this.

Image source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

Aglaope

Il Mheg

Stand on Aglaope’s chosen spawn point with the Scarlet Peacock minion out.

• Minion can be crafted from a Scarlet Tailfeather that drops from Suzaku Ex or bought off the Market Board
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn.
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met.

Forgiven Pedantry

Kholusia

Hit the Dwarven Cotton Boll node 50 times

• Requires level 79 btn to gather
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met
• Node hits, NOT amount of Cotton Bolls gathered count towards the 50. Using abilities to gather more at once (i.e. Ageless Words) has NO benefit

Tyger

Lakeland

Discard a Rail Tenderloin

• Can be purchased from the Gem Trader in Kholusia by the Tomra aethertye (as well as Crystarium and Eulmore Gem Traders). Also drop from Island Rails in SW Kholusia
• Can discard anywhere in the zone
• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Tarchia

Amh Araeng

Self destruct on Tarchia’s chosen spawn point

• Self destruct is a Blue Mage ability that can be obtained from the following; Lv.12 Glide Bomb in Western Thanalan (by Copperbell Mines entrance), Lv.17 Blasting Cap in Copperbell Mines, Lv.20 Gas Bomb in Halatali
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• No RNG; should spawn after 1 self destruct attempt

SS Rank: The Forgiven Rebellion

All ShB Zones

After a ShB S Rank dies, there is a chance that four Forgiven Gossips will spawn. If all four of these are killed, The Forgiven Rebellion spawn.

• If the Forgiven Gossips spawn, the message “The minions of an extraordinarily powerful mark are on the hunt for prey…” will appear.
• The Forgiven Gossips count as a B Rank, but aggro like and are as difficult to kill as an A Rank
• The Forgiven Gossips cannot be reset - if they are, they will despawn and The Forgiven Rebellion will not spawn. Wait for 1-2 parties to arrive before engaging. That being said, the mobs despawn after 5 minutes, so don’t take too long to pull

Endwalker

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)                Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

Armstrong

Garlemald

Die on spawn point while wearing Mended Imperial Pot Helm and Mended Imperial Short Robe

• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Gear can be obtained from the Calamity Salvager
• Manner of death doesn’t matter
• RNG; can take more than one death

Burfurlur the Canny

Labyrinthos

Stand on the spawn point with the Tiny Troll minion during Clear Skies or Fair Skies between 9AM-6PM Eorzea Time

• Some sources say 5PM, some say 6PM - neither confirmed
• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Minion is a rare drop from the final boss of The Aitiascope
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Narrow-rift

Ultima Thule

Ten or more players standing on spawn point with Wee Ea minions

• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Minion is a Rank 3 purchase from Base Omicron’s Gem Trader for 500 gemstones.
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Ophioneus

Elpis

Discard a stack of 5 or more Egg of Elpis

• Discarding one by one does not work
• Discarding does not need to be done on the spawn point
• Egg of Elpis can be purchased from the Elpis, Old Sharlayan, or Razt-at-han Gem Traders. They also drop from Birds of Elpis directly east of the Anagnorisis Aetheryte

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Ruminator

Mare Lamentorum

Kill 100 Thinkers, 100 Weepers, and 100 Wanderers

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Image source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

Sphatika

Thavnair

Kill 100 Vajralangula, 100 Pisaca, and 100 Asvattha

• Mobs are found by Palaka’s Stand the The Great Work

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Image source: https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/

SS Rank: Ker

See SS Rank: The Forgiven Rebellion for more detail. They work the same, but this is the Endwalker version.

Dawntrail

Window: 84-132 (48 hrs)                Post-Maint: 50-80 (30 hrs)

Ihnuxokiy

Kozama'uka

Stand on the spawn point with a Morpho minion summoned

• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn
• RNG; can take more than one attempt

Kirlirger the Abhorrent

Urqopacha

Travel over the spawn point during Fog weather and a New Moon between 12AM-6AM Eorzean Time

• Spawn point can be found via mapping technique
• Vertical distance and whether you are mounted, unmounted, flying, on the ground, moving, or standing still has no effect on spawn

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Neyoozoteel

Yak T’el

Discard a stack of 50 or more Fish Meal

• Discarding one by one does not work
• Discarding does not need to be done on the spawn point
• Fish meal can be bought from many vendors or crafted. See: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/item/0ad09c1e3fe/ 

• RNG currently unknown

Sansheya

Shaaloani

Complete the You Are What You Drink fate 3 times without failure.

• Not linked to any other FATE (unlike Senmurv), so completing other FATEs in the zone has moderate effect on speed of You Are What You Drink reappearance

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

Atticus the Primogenitor

Heritage Found

Craft a HQ Rroneek Steak (lvl. 99 Cul recipe)

• Can craft anywhere in the zone

• No RNG; should spawn if timer up and conditions met

The Forecaster

Living Memory

Use Blue Mage ability Northerlies on spawn point

• Learned from Slate Yetis and Lone Yetis in Coerthas Western Highlands

• RNG currently unknown (multiple attempts likely)

SS Rank: Arch Aethereater

See SS Rank: The Forgiven Rebellion for more detail. They work the same, but this is the Dawntrail version. Dawntrail SS minions don’t have a visible 5 minutes despawn buff, and don’t despawn after 5 minutes. Reset despawn still applies.

Mapping

After A/S ranks are killed, they “reserve” their next spawn location; nothing else will spawn there until the A/S rank spawns (at the reserved spot), dies, and picks another spot.

This means that, when spawning S ranks, you don’t need to kill A/B ranks in case the S rank wants to spawn where they are.

Where an A or S rank is going to spawn can be determined. This is especially useful for S ranks whose spawn conditions must be completed on their chosen spawn location (Brontes, Croakadile, Nandi, Mindflayer, Kaiser Behemoth, Orghana, Gamma, Aglaope, Tarchia, Armstrong. Burfurlur the Canny, Narrow-rift, Ihnuxokiy, Kirlirger the Abhorrent, The Forecaster).

How to map an S Rank’s spawn location: Hunts cannot spawn in the same location twice in a row; mark off where it previously spawned. You can idly mark off anywhere you see the A/B Ranks spawn OR actively kill B ranks to determine the spot.

When killing the B Rank(s) over and over again, keep in mind that the A Rank(s) also reserve spots. When you get down to 2 or 3 spots left (depending on the expansion), wait for the A Rank(s) to spawn, and mark those off as your last spots - this should narrow it down to 1 spot left.

Different servers use different websites to keep track of their spawn points. Ask you local hunters.

Windows

A hunt’s window is the time frame in which a hunt can become spawnable.  They are usually written as “hours since last kill” or “hours since the servers restarted”.

Somewhere within a hunt’s window, the server ticks to allow it to spawn. For A ranks, this is their only spawn condition and they will pop as soon as this condition is met. For S ranks, their other condition must be met after this tick for the hunt to spawn

S rank hunts are still spawnable once their window is over. The window ending only guarantees that the servers have ticked to allow spawn. Basically, the window is the time in which the server’s rng can tick to make the hunt spawnable, not the time in which the hunt can spawn. Also, many hunts still have an element of RNG after their timers have ticked to allow spawn, so it can take more than one attempt (even hours after their window has been maxed).

Windows are a set amount of time, but vary from hunt to hunt. All windows are reset (start counting up from 0 again) when the servers restart, and hunts have a shorter respawn window their first spawn cycle after this. Servers are reset during most maintenances. You can tell if the servers reset based on your Marketboard wishlist; if your wishlist reset, so did the servers. If there was a maintenance and the servers were NOT reset, the time the game was inaccessible still counts towards the window.

Oftentimes, after maintenance the servers are restarted before they are open to players. This means that windows can be open hours earlier than if calculated by the time the server becomes accessible to players.