Sky OoA / Noble spawn clarification request

[Silverwolf23]

Hello sky goers,

I was hoping for some better clarification on the OoA and noble spawn mechanics. There seems to be a large amount of conflicting information.

After much browsing I have come to understand that the noble has a 7 day and a 3 day spawn. Both 7 day and 3 day can be going at the same time.

However I do not understand how to get the 3 day noble spawn cycle going.

1) The 7day noble pops on a (supposedly) static 7day timer
?) Does the 7 day timer start on pop or death?
?) Does the 7 day timer have a variance?

2) Upon the death of the 7 day noble an overseer of air spawns.

3) Supposedly the Overseer of Air does not depop according to wiki.
?) I don't understand why the above is true since I have personally witnessed the OoA depop right before the 7day noble pops.

4) Supposedly the 3 day noble timer starts if the noble is killed while OoA is up.
?) How does this work if the OoA depops right before 7 day noble repops?

5) Also supposedly the OoA can repop if noble is left up for a few days.
?) I have never witnessed this nor have I seen noble alive for more than 12 hours. Can anyone confirm?

6) According to some 2006 guides from live there can be at most 4 OoA which can result in multiple 3 day noble cycles allowing a noble pop 5 to 7 times in a week and sometimes up to 3 times in a 24 hr period. (Cannot confirm true for p99)

Please, PLEASE, provide some insight into this confusing spawn cycle.

And will someone please update the wiki with correct spawn timer info. (Multiple items for sky in the p99 wiki are missing or merely speculation)

Thank you to those who provide helpful information.

[Meep]

Reminds me of people wanting scout timers. The lack of information or vagueness that follows based on personal gain.

[Silverwolf23]

Basically I'm trying to understand the logistics of leaving OoA up to get more nobles opposed to killing OoA in order to get hand of veeshan to pop.

There has been talk by a few guilds for grief killing OoA due to the whole fight for noble.

I am NOT asking for what time it pops. I simply want to correctly understand the 7/3 day pop mechanics so I can stop guessing or following false or rumored info.

[darkreap]

From the way it was explained to me (and I may be wrong), there is a 7 day timer on the Noble. Once the noble is killed an OoA will spawn. If the OoA is left up there will be a 3 day Noble spawn. When this is killed there will another OoA that will spawn. If this one (both?) is left up, another Noble will spawn 3 days later. This will then reset once the 7 day timer is complete, all will despawn and the 7 day Noble will spawn again and the cycle is repeated. If all the nobles are killed the same day they spawn and all the OoAs are left up there would be 3 noble spawns in a week. Again, this is how I understand it and I could be off on the details.

[Silverwolf23]

Thank you darkreap. That is mostly what is provided in the guides/wiki/advice from others. The exception to what you stated is the guides/wiki/others state the 3 day noble timer starts whenever a noble dies WHILE an OoA is up > this is where the conflict of information really plays out.

If what darkreap states is true, how do guilds get away with killing OoA to pop hand of veeshan without messing up noble? At one point over the past few months I saw 4 OoA up for several weeks. ( I regularly check sky so my guild can avoid conflicts of interest )

Sadly I have a real life and cannot watch other guilds in sky 24/7

[xKoopa]

darkreap is at least close to right, but the cycle doesnt reset until a server reset or something like that if ooa's are left up. If you leave ooa's alone you just keep getting more and more nobles. I remember a time when there were multiple nobles a day and it rained efreeti loot until server reset

The mechanics are pretty wonky though, and I can't remember all the details of it anymore :/

[Maliant]

If people stopped killing OoA we would have infinite nobles. But for some reason OoA has been killed non-stop last several months. This is why we cannot have nice things.

[Savok]

Originally Posted by Maliant [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If people stopped killing OoA we would have infinite nobles. But for some reason OoA has been killed non-stop last several months. This is why we cannot have nice things.

It was probably that selfish AG guild that does it.

[pogs4ever]

so if you assume that every OoA is left up and each noble is basically insta killed, that would mean that you could have up to 4 nobles spawning roughly around the same time every 3 days?

Or in other words a 3 day noble is killed at x:01 causing an OoA to pop, in 3 days time you'd see two nobles at essentially x:01?

[fadetree]

Originally Posted by Silverwolf23 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And will someone please update the wiki with correct spawn timer info. (Multiple items for sky in the p99 wiki are missing or merely speculation)

Thank you to those who provide helpful information.

Not trying to be irritating, but I'll point out that anyone can update the Wiki.