First, his respawn window only opens 9hrs after he was last killed. Go go SE for making the respawn times in this game absolutely insane -_-. Second, he will only spawn during "windy weather", and even then during his 3hr window its possible for him not to spawn at ALL during windy weather. If this happens, he's guaranteed to spawn the next time windy weather occurs. And here's pretty much what happened with our camping session last thursday night.
The window had opened at about 10pm our time. We waited for windy weather, and after about 20 minutes of waiting, we notice that we're surrounded by tarutaru. Tarutaru with no linkshells. Tarutaru that are all /anon. Hmm, suspicious? In the world of FFXI, you betcha! We were being countercamped by RMT, how fun.
In their party, we noticed that there was a mithra THF and throughout the 3hrs of waiting for windy weather we later found out that he (Nakirin) had to have been a legit player because he actually did have a LS, and a few times that he had spoken to us he seemed to have no problem communicating. So in the end, we assumed that this guy had probably hired the RMT to help him get the NM.
Anyways, while we waited there was one point where Nakirin had said he needed the NM. Then later he asked if we would help him pull it, which is when I came up with an idea. I decided to send an invite over to Nakirin to see if he'd alliance with us, which he accepted. My plan was to make them think we would help him, and when Kreutzet would actually pop I'd give party leader to Carste so he could make himself quartermaster and get the drop. But shortly after about 3 minutes the alliance disbanded. Then Nakirin asked in say "Please invite me" again so I sent another invite.
We then decided to kill some cockatrice with them while we waited. But while we were fighting, they disbanded so obviously the RMT had probably been smart enough to tell Nakirin that we probably had no intention of helping. Meh, it was a good try anyway. Would of been a lesson for the THF not to hire and support RMT who ruin the game for legit players -_-
Anyways, eventually the wind weather did spawn, but no Kreutzet. After that, the wind didn't spawn again during the 3hr window. This was good and bad at the same time. It was good because it guaranteed that during the next windy weather Kreutzet would spawn... but, because of our luck the wind weather took a full 2hrs after the window had closed to spawn. I think it was about 3am before I ended up logging out that night.
Before Kreutzet spawned however, we had another opportunity thrown at us. The WHM in the RMT pt had apparently gone AFK, and a cockatrice had aggroed him and killed him. He reraised but as soon as he did, he got himself killed again and didn't have the chance to cast reraise on himself. Their party started asking us for raise, but of course we weren't about to help some RMT. So instead, we told them that we had a WHM on the way with R3! ^^
They believed us, and kept asking us for about 20 minutes how far away the WHM was. They started saying that R1 would be ok, but we insisted we would give them R3. Then one of our party members commented that they could easily get one of their BLM to raise him. Apparently the RMT had forgotten or weren't aware that they had raise <_<;;
Anyways, shortly after the WHM was raised the windy weather popped and we ran out to get claim. Carste managed to get it, but died on the way back. We had been caught off guard a bit, and because I had been low on MP I decided to convert right away. Bad idea.
The last times I had fought Kreutzet, he hadn't bothered to use his AoE move Stormwind which is a 3 consecutive move which deals quite a bit of damage, until the very end. Well for whatever reason, he used it right away in this battle and because the first attack took off my stoneskin, his second hit killed me right as I had converted. -_-
I decided to homepoint so that I could race back and help. But the battle didn't go so well after that, because he apparently kept spamming that move and our only healer Josudes had a bit too much to handle with everyone taking damage and wasn't able to cure Xean on time who had been tanking. As soon as Xean went down, the rest of the party did and the RMT got claim. We thought it was over...
That is until a BLM who had been getting the ToD, Hanzokoro gave us a hand and raised Xean and Carste and joined our party. Right as Kreutzet got down to about 3% health, the RMT pt wiped and we managed to get claim and kill him. Sadly though, we didn't get a drop making this 0/4.
I swear its Xean's luck >_<
So yeah, I refuse to give up helping Carste get this NM because of all the trouble we've had. I don't want to make all the time spent on this bird a waste, so he's going to be getting ToD and hopefully I'll be able to help this week.
Other than that, i've managed to get 2 more merits which I applied to my MP. I'm not 4/8. I figure i'll finish this stat, and get the full 8/8 because i'm elvaan and all my jobs currently require MP. Then next i'll start adding to my elemental and enfeebling. So much meriting, it never seems to end ; ;
And on another note, our LS has been getting some really excellent members lately. I decided to go camp Ose on the weekend before Kreutzet, and asked if I could get some help and had quite a few people come to help. It feels nice to have that kind of response, even though I wouldn't have minded if people were busy... just knowing that our LS is filled with members that really do enjoy helping each other is rewarding. Its been nice to see some good new members come in considering we've had a few leave/quit and even a some that spend almost no time in our LS anymore. Guess its always the good ones that stay ^^
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