How does Vaniki spawn work

[heartbrand]

Thanks

[Ele]

multiple spawn locations, ~5 day spawn time

good luck

[nyclin]

invisible placeholders pop/depop randomly throughout the zone and have a chance to respawn as Vaniki after his repop timer has passed

at least, this was the way it worked on live

[Hijiri]

invisible placeholders pop/depop randomly throughout the zone and have a chance to respawn as Vaniki after his repop timer has passed

at least, this was the way it worked on live

Dis. But even after all these years it's still not been Confirmed. Only reason you got him on live was because server reset,fabled. Almost impossible to camp him

[pasi]

5 total spawn locations on a 122 hour respawn and 122 hour despawn. Each spot has a 10% chance of Vaniki spawning and a 90% chance of an invisible place holder. Vaniki is a unique mob (#) so only 1 Vaniki can be up at one time.

For practical purposes on live, Vaniki was pretty much a server restart or bust NPC.

On a server like this, Vaniki will be more common (via spawn not overall) since the 5 spawn locations will be more and more de-synchronized as more Vaniki's spawn (and get killed).

[heartbrand]

So since we never really have patches or repops this is never popping on red?

[pasi]

So since we never really have patches or repops this is never popping on red?

The common misconception is that there is a 50% chance of her spawning every 5 days. The reality is that it takes another 5 days for un-killable PH mobs to despawn, so it's really 5 spots operating on a 10% chance every 10 days. Given non-overlapping placeholders, you're looking at a Vaniki spawn on average every 20 days. Given overlapping placeholders, you're looking at a Vaniki on average every 24 days. These numbers decrease if you are actually seeing more Vaniki (and thus circumventing the despawn timer by killing).

It's helpful that Willsapper is a 100% drop rate, but willsappers mostly existed on live because server resets.

[webrunner5]

Well pasi just dashed any hopes of me spawning and killing Vanki Solo. :D

[Rysva]

...Vanki Solo. :D

related to Han?

[Hijiri]

So since we never really have patches or repops this is never popping on red?

Correct.

[GreldorEQ]

I spent an incredible amount of [wasted] time trying to look for this rat on live.

Move on with your life now.

[pasi]

Every character I had on live rocked a Neb's Warbone. Mucho Vaniki slaying.

Guild didn't get an actual Quarm kill shot until the 4th or 5th kill.

[Arkanjil]

Are we sure it's 122 hours and not 6? I've heard debates the 122 hours = in game time time which is 6 hr 6 min?

[Freakish]

It doesn't matter how it was on live, except as reference. Remember that in your TheoryQuesting!

[blondeattk]

those invisible mobs not viewable with the right spell?

or they designed as unkillable placeholders?

[nyclin]

those invisible mobs not viewable with the right spell?

or they designed as unkillable placeholders?

they're unkillable place holders

it isn't possible here, but on live during this era you could trade with invisible npcs. you could run around DN with a copper on your cursor clicking everything, and you'd eventually get a "You are too far away from VanikiPlaceholder00 to trade" message, or a trade window.

alternatively, you could see them with showeq

[joppykid]

I saw a Red Con "Invisiman" on track in Skyshrine last night. Is this something similar or is this a SS mob i'm unaware of.

[nilbog]

I saw a Red Con "Invisiman" on track in Skyshrine last night. Is this something similar or is this a SS mob i'm unaware of.

Fixed, pending update