I just leveled a couple of characters in a wind storm in badlands oceanic… gave away 5 stones that dropped, and there is still 40 mins left in the storm right now.
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I mean, today, in the small four to six hour window I’ve bothered to look because of this thread, yeah he hasn’t been up. But this is a small sample size of an event that’s been running for two weeks.
But hey, keep at it, you’ve still got all of tonight and all of tomorrow. You might get lucky and be sure to use group finder to spam killing him. If you don’t get it, someone in your raid will and are likely to toss it to you for free.
I mean, if people haven’t been joining a killing raid to hedge their bets to be given a piece when it doesn’t drop for them, that’s another massive “You problem”. Game still has social aspects, take advantage of them.
I believe you can get 9 kills within a window before the next elemental is up. I’ve seen Storm up once, although I haven’t looked for it since I got the trinket reagent (it’s been over a week), but I do recall Storm being very uncommon and have yet to see him while leveling alts. I do feel bad for those who haven’t seen him or gotten the reagent yet, because Storm is certainly much rarer than the others. I’m fairly convinced that one is weighted towards the Tirisfal Glades location that was removed and that’s why it’s very uncommon.
And I understand what you’re saying. I also understand that this event had to last two weeks and had no loot lock outs and gave nothing of any real weight or consequence long term.
No titles, no exclusive transmogs, no pets, no mounts, no illusions, no toys, nothing that is tied to killing specific bosses.
With ~two weeks, everyone had more than enough chance, with the rotation being the way it is, to get the trinket and the Feat of Strength. For those extremely unlucky few who just couldn’t find one of the four? Yup, sucks, but hey, nothing really lost. My sympathy is having a hard time going out to people when all they’re missing out on is an heirloom trinket.
I got him and my trinket 
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Now you’re just putting words in people’s mouths. No one ever said it was a 25% chance for any given lord to spawn. No one mentioned any percentages, except for the OP who said it was 0 and other folks who are trying to say it was astronomically low with no actual evidence to back that up.
And your “data” isn’t good at all. It’s just claimed anecdotal hearsay. Wrong anecdotal hearsay at that; if you really did monitor it over a 20 hour period, that would be 10 invasions, not 20; they last about two hours.
But hey, you’ve got time left to “monitor” and then claim it didn’t pop up another ~17 times.
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I haven’t been really paying attention to it been busy rushing catchup stuff on my Dracthyr probably spent around 400k on her in the last two weeks doing them occasionally managed to get all 4 and my trinket 
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On proudmoore he hasn’t spawned in 5 invasions. I have been on since roughly 6 am and grinded out 45-60 exclusively on invasions. Regardless of where you fall on the matter, 5 invasions without even 1 storm spawn location in the bunch is a curiosity.
Well, whether you are on the side of ‘screw you I got mine’ or ‘couldn’t it just be more fair to everyone’ - I hope that the actual expansion is better planned and less buggy than this event has been.
It feels like the folks that are left at Bliz are just in over their heads.
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10 times in a 2 hour period sounds…low. The Lord spawns about every 15 minutes, so that’s 8 times. You can jump from one to the next spawns, since they aren’t synchronized per realm/shard/crz/whatever. I haven’t done it more than four back to back, because I got the essences I needed by then, but I think you might be able to squeeze more than 9ish kills out in a two hour period. But don’t quote me on it.
As for the Wind lord being weighted to Tirisfal, I don’t really believe that. I’ve seen it be all fire at all three locations, all earth and I’ve had all four spawn in the Badlands. Now, I haven’t seen all Water or all Wind, to my recollection, so I could believe Fire and maybe Earth being weighted higher than both Wind and Water, but I can’t prove that with any unbiased empirical data, so I wouldn’t make the claim.
Water is up now in Badlands I believe. I think they’re 3-hour windows if I’m not mistaken, with spawns every 20-ish minutes from observation. You are correct that I don’t have all of the data and am simply going by what I’ve seen. I do hope those who are still missing storm (that seems to be the main one generating complaints) are able to get them before the event ends tomorrow. We shall see.
I’m not trying to claim he spawns regularly; hell, I’m almost 95% sure that Fire spawns more often than any the others (and boy did I hate grinding on him). So I can completely believe he hasn’t spawned once today.
What I refuse to believe is that he has spawned so inconsistently over a two week period that it has created a credible issue of people completing their trinket. Once again, with Fire seeming to my bias to be the most frequently spawned and the one I killed the most, he was also the last one I got my piece from.
And I’m not even saying “screw you, I got mine”. If I had to spend an entire week looking out for the Storm lord to finish my trinket and achievement, I’d be far more sympathetic. Except I didn’t. I did it in two days. Two days out of fourteen. Was I lucky? Perhaps. But I couldn’t be that lucky or there’d have been a blue post about fixing his spawn rate by now.
Definitely with you on hoping this one is a good one. After WoD, Legion, BFA and now SL, I’ve given up hope Blizzard can make a good game. I still enjoy it enough to pay and play, but this game has yet to crank out another WotLK or MoP, or even another Cata, and I’m not hopeful it ever will again.
6th invasion just popped, 2 earth and 1 water. It’s inconsistent enough that there are numerous threads and bug reports made about it, all folks saying the same thing: Where’s the Storm Lord?
If we were looking at normal RNG some folks would be complaining about earth, some about fire, etc.
EVERYONE is complaining about Storm. And I’ll just accept that I’m not going to get it because I am not sticking around another 3 hours to see if the next invasion brings a storm rift.
Frankly, Blizzard didn’t put a lot of thought into this event. They just copy pasta’d from Rift\FFXIV and called it a day. The LEAST they could have done was made it generally playable for everyone no matter when they had time to play during the event. Locking folks out just because it’s the last day - it’s just silly.
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I have played the past 2 days from 10am to 10pm and not a single air / storm elemental lord spawned in those full 24 hours of play time. Why didn’t I play for the previous few days? Because of uh, Thanksgiving and also I had Covid on Tuesday. People have lives, an air storm lord should have spawned sometime during the day this weekend and one did not.
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I main FFXIV and don’t see how this event is similar to FFXIV at all. It’s not really like a FATE since FATES are short.
I work 40 hours a week and also did Thanksgiving with the family, so don’t pull the “hur hur, we have lives” defense.
They could’ve at the very least made it so that we don’t have duplicate invasion lords in the same window. We should not have two earth invasions going at the same time.
We shouldn’t have three Fire invasions at the same time. So, agree with that; Water and Wind are so much nicer to farm.
Suddenly an open world event spawns that has all sorts of unusual enemies coming out of it! Zombies, Elementals, dragons, even Shantotto!!! Hop into Eureka or Bozja for even more spawns of some of our favorites from games past!!!
At least SE put some thought into making it somewhat their own, but it’s still an idea that borrowed from those that came before it (Rift) and WoW’s version came after them.
Not a dig at any of the games in very general terms as I like grind content - just making a point that there are things we should cut Bliz some slack on… and some things we shouldn’t.
It’s just a rehashing of the Cata pre-patch event. So they’re recycling their own content, not Final Fantasy’s.
Came back for the new expansion. Didn’t know about this event and trying to get the trinket. I guess I’m just bad for having such bad rng luck. Good mechanics. I was just lazy for not knowing guys! /s