I've been surfing through this FB section to find any reasonable solution for this. Some people say "Make it counts at Dojo", not a bad idea at all Some people say "Remove the NX from area bosses", not a reasonable idea But I've come to a reasonable idea, that could be a solution for EVERYONE's problems. When you need Manon for HT, or both Manon/Griff for 4th Job, or Timer to the egg quest in Ludi, and you can't find any of them because there are NX Hunters everywhere? My idea is as simple as add an NPC, where you can only enter ONCE a day, or ONCE a week?, make a timer. Then you can click that NPC, and you have that boss FOR YOURSELF. Then you make that NPC for each one of those area bosses. I had a big struggle to find an alive Pianus to get the badge for the HT quest, it took me MONTHS. Think about it...
but i think need some exception(bigfoot / kacchu / anego / headless horseman / black crow) for fast leveling
that'd be an interesting option, but as veen said it would need lots of adjustments and exceptions. maybe these "instanced" bosses shouldn't give exp at all? my take on this is that struggling to find said area bosses is part of the appeal of it. yeah I don't like it when I can't find a single boss in all 20 channels, but hell it feels very rewarding actually finding it after trying so hard.
The random component of spawn times makes it impossible for anyone to consistently hunt all the bosses in an area. A few will always slip through the cracks to be hunted by someone else. I have often found an area boss that I was looking for within an hour (2 max) by checking all the channels in 30 minute intervals. (while waiting, you can do another quest, play another character, cruise the FM, watch TV, study, etc.) When you look at Olaf's quest requirements, the area bosses are by far the quickest and easiest. You literally just need 1-15 minutes to kill them, depending on what it is. Party requests require recruitment and teamwork. Quests, Cards and Monster kills require a lot more time and effort. Compared to those, area bosses are a joke. So the way I see it is that finding the area boss is the challenge. It's also worth mentioning that Olaf cuts you some slack by giving you additional tasks to choose from. I could make similar arguments for those hunting bosses for Monster Cards - the challenge is in the hunt & there is quite a lot more than the required 400 sets. The only thing I would agree with changing is... this... Blue Mushmom (Level 90) Respawn Time: 23 Hours
I still think you should actually hunt for the boss itself instead of having access to one immediately. But if that many people are having trouble finding one for quest, then I would suggest make all area boss similar to manon kill for HT elixir. As long as you're in the map when it dies, you get quest completion. This opens up another method for quest completion: Afk in the map till either you or someone else comes along to kill it. - Do correct me if this is already in the game though... I don't know. I like bosses giving out nx, it makes them matter and people actually want to hunt them frequently. Lowbie bosses don't give out a lot of NX so its a reward for hunting them (and no, I don't hunt area bosses, I don't got that time).
I don't agree that hunting bosses for NX isn't profitable. If you manage to find one at every channel, 20 bosses x 350 nx = 7.000 nx, each of them. Also you have the one at maladys that spawn in two maps, or Timer that spawns in three maps That said, I've been searching for Timer for 4 days already, 3 maps, 60 chances, 0 kills... It is annoying, yes.
I tried NX hunting in the past so believe me when I say that APQ is more profitable and more consistent in it's profitability. NX hunters won't get all 20 channels consistently and each one isn't guaranteed to drop both NX cards (100 & 250) so this estimate of 7000 NX per map isn't even remotely realistic. Also... Literally in the first map I checked. Channel 19 btw. Hope you get it!
People here are either overexaggerating or I'm playing a different game. I came back to Royals couple weeks ago and was able to comfortably find all of the area bosses, starting from Olaf 1, on the first check with exception of blue mushmom, Tae Roon and Nine-Tailed Fox. Waited 2h checked again, then waited another 30min and found all of them. Key is to actually put some effort instead of giving up and trying to make the game easier than it already is. Finding a boss should feel rewarding. Edit: Also if you think that it's hard now, allow me to take you a couple years back when Lyka still dropped a chaos scroll. Lemme tell you, that map was a BATTLE ROYALE.
People hunt area bosses for various reasons (Olaf, NX, Cards..) and everyone has the same chance to find them. We are not here to judge the reason for players to hunt those bosses. As others have mentioned its very possible to find them in a reasonable amount of playtime. I haven't faced many issues finding all bosses for my Ultimate Adventurer questlines on various characters. If you checked all channels and couldnt find one i advice to just try at another day instead of staying there for a long time hoping they'd respawn soon. Nevertheless thanks for your feedback!
