[edmazur]

Something's indeed changed in North Karana, but I'm not sure about the details. Here are a couple data points to help figure it out:

- Before Kunark, I would pass through fairly regularly and see some combination of hill giants and griffons up on track. In particular, I learned how the GrimFeather spawn worked - it was a static spawn near the bridge to East Karana with some high-ish percent chance to spawn (I believe "a griffon" is the only PH). So killing GrimFeather was just a matter of running around, finding any griffons up, killing them, and then being at that spot 6:40 (or whatever SK's timer is) later. Never took more than 20 minutes or so.

- Just now, and I believe for the first time since Kunark dropped, I ran through NK and didn't see a single hill giant or griffon on track (multiple locations, over 10 minutes-ish). I don't think I've seen that happen before - even when they're being hunted, they take time to kill so I'd regularly see them up in the past times. Anyway, I sat at my usual spot by the bridge to EK for 10 minutes or so and nothing appeared. I then remembered seeing this thread last night - evidently it sounds like we have general agreement that something changed, but I guess TBD what and how.