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[discussion] Dungeon respawn timers not always 5 minutes
I've been seeing the discussion in #1190 and #1298 regarding mob respawn timers for non-NM mobs in dungeons.
While many timers were probably reduced, it didn't happen for all mobs across the board. For example, the FFXIclopedia page for the fomor in Phomiuna Aqeducts is still accurate at 14m.
Below are video links, with timestamp links, from when I was running around there for COP missions and farming keys. I was the only person in the zone (joy of being on Leviathan).
Lunette blowing up set of fomor (Ranger, Dark Knight, Samurai, Ninja) at E-5, at 21:55:30 (my time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RO6skmk7mg&t=25m
I decided to pull Hana in for TH, this is her running around not killing things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RO6skmk7mg&t=57m10s 5 minutes and 15 seconds (check Youtube time indexes in links) before. .. (Feel free to hit the left key a few times to see that she really was lost at least 6 minutes prior to below)
Hana seeing the same group of fomor at E-5 popping at 22:33:00 (my time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RO6skmk7mg&t=1h2m25s
She had been waiting there for at least 2 minutes prior to them popping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RO6skmk7mg&t=1h25s
Unfortunately, while I hadn't put Hana on-video yet, here's the video ~14 minutes prior to the above group spawning, with her killing a Ninja, Samurai, Monk, and two others (at 22:18:00 my time). While she's not on video during the kills, the loot messages show it's the same group, as only one group of fomor has that setup across map 1 and map 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RO6skmk7mg&t=47m55s
I'm not making any claims to any mobs in any previous PRs. Just want to illustrate that there's not a universal rule of 5 minute respawns for all non-NM mobs in dungeons.
I think for everyone's sanity going forwards, we should probably spot-check a bunch of these mobs on retail to confirm "5-mins-or-not". I've got some time, I'll check some of them today.
Until now i have done a few mobs in each zone where i submitted the 5 min change. So far so good but I will stay on alert going forward, especially for those "kind of mission" dungeons..
Ok in fact Phomunia Aqueduct is not a Ground of Valor dungeons, that's probably why. I am only doing GoV dungeons.