So… from doing a bit of digging, players have figured out that the rare mobs in the Molten Front will reset their spawn timers if NOBODY is in the zone for 15 minutes, making it an unnecessary waiting game to try and find said rares.
The Molten Front is over a decade old content now, and back THEN because of it being current, you would always run into these rares. Nowadays, NOBODY apart from hunters go there to try and tame the rares, only to find that there are none, only to have to do the research and find out you just have to wait in the zone until they spawn.
I’m after Deth’tilac in particular, which is a scaled up hunting challenge at max level, however on top of doing this cool challenge in taming the beast, you have to wait, be there, in the zone, for 6-18 hours. Which is absurd to ask of anyone, in ANY game.
I’m just making this post to call out this dumb mechanic, and asking for it to be patched. You shouldn’t have to have players in a zone in order to have rare mobs spawning in it.
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Many other zones are like this as well, and as a player with many, many hunter alts I would personally love to see it adjusted for the old zones that work this way.
I’m not one who likes to necro an old post, however, this is still a problem today in TWW. I main a hunter and have been camped out inside the Molten Front with the hopes of nabbing the obsidian cat Skarr. I refuse to engage with my guildmates and friends because to even begin to see any rare spawns in the Molten Front, you have to be in the zone for a bare minimum of 3 hours. Because of this, I’ve spent a greater part of my afternoon camping here (going on 5 hours now) and still have not seen any of these rares spawn. The long spawn timers and whatnot made sense at the time this area was being heavily trafficked but it just feels outdated now.
There are a few ways that I can think of to help ease this issue.
- Add other spawns to the game that use these creature models.
- Remove the 3-hour timegate in Molten Front and shorten the rare spawn time for the hunter tames in the zone.
- Add back the ability to duplicate your hunter pet to the currently summoned pet; either an ability toggle or an in-bag item/toy like with Hati in Legion. (note: This option wouldn’t necessarily solve the issue but to those of us hunters that like to run with 2 pets of the same model, it would really help cut down on the spawn camp time we face OR let those of us who have only one copy of the pet be able to use the skin on our secondary summon.)
Thank you for listening and I really hope to see this issue addressed in the future.
(PS: Please buff BM hunter AOE.) 
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