When do rare spawns reset?

Community General Discussion
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i always assumed it was when dailies reset, except a few months ago the daily reset passed and when the rare i was camping spawned it was still gold and didnt change until the hour after…

well here i am today camping a rare and it spawned at exactly 12 eastern…and it was still not silver…it cant be 1 can it??? daily reset was like 2 or 3 hours ago

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With daily quests reset. 8AM PST/11AM EST I’m pretty sure.

3

well my experience just now would suggest thats not what is happening

4

Actually I think it is 11AM that stuff resets. But for rares, they should reset with daily quests. I am not sure if some rares have a weekly reset or not. You can look up the rare you’re attempting to farm and see if Wowhead comments have the information.

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Lord Aj’Qirai…i farm him every 2 weeks when hes up…and he is a daily respawn…i just dont know when that is apparantly

and wowhead give this macro to check if youve killed today /run for k,v in pairs({["Lord Aj’Qirai"]=154604}) do print(k,":",v and "Yes" or "No") end … running it gives a yes even though i havent killed since yesterday afternoon

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Oh. You can only farm him during the N’zoth invasion in that side of the zone. The area on the map will be surrounded by like purple-void looking borders. There are 4 areas, 2 in Uldum and 2 in Pandaria, that these areas rotate through. I used to farm that rare for a battle pet to sell.

He has a 1 hour 20 minute respawn timer from the time he was last killed. That seemed to be really accurate when I was camping his spawn with my army of alts in DF.

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They spawn 12 hours apart from the dailies. Unless that was changed. That is how it used to be back in 2008.

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spawned again just now…still not silver (hasnt reset)

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I don’t remember what his loot lockout is, if it is daily or once per invasion/assault. Maybe try another character if you haven’t already.

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its daily…every 2 weeks you get 3-4 days to farm him (only rare that i still need to farm)

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Yeah, I don’t know why it wouldn’t appear as a rare for you then. Probably post it over on the bug report forums. That’s about all you can do with suspected bugs or things not working correctly.