Primal Storms are currently not spawning two like they should as of a recent hotfix. Please fix.
It also seems like Storm’s Fury is interfering with one of the spawns.
Tracking Storms
I’m keeping a spreadsheet of all the EU Storm spawns now for data atleast until the release of S4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dmonq6XbkvH4NxMdZpgOvS0xRcJf_H5wtIoaoJGz2q8/edit?usp=drivesdk
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Please increase the Primal Storm spawns back to 2-3 at a time like it was before 10.0.7. The meta achievement A World Awoken has increased interest in these, but we are noticing an awful pattern in them that might cause a lot of people to miss out on this achievement, even assuming we have till August to do it.
Data
Over 60% of the Primal Storms that spawned on EU since March 23 (data from 20 storms) were located in the Azure Span, often multiple times in a row.
3 were in the Waking Shores. 3 were in the Plains. 2 were in Thaldraszus. 12 were in the Azure Span.
There were 5 Frost invasions, 3 Fire invasions and 3 Air invasions. 9 of them were Earth Invasions, of which 6 took place in the Azure Span.
They should work like hunts, only difference being that storm should last the whole day in one zone, and the elemental types would rotate every 2 hours.
You could knock the whole thing out in 4 days if you have the time, or if you don’t have it, you would atleast be able to plan.
I mean it would be better as the current state, but it would still be a huge timesink for nothing. I don’t expect to get Taivan in 5 days, but these storms are just painful.
I had roughly 70% progress done, and I managed to get pretty much everything since I no-lifed it (all the missing reps, treasures, bakars, hunts etc.), except these stupid storms. It’s a horrible RNG system, and it really pisses me off when you’re at work / somewhere else, and the one of the 4 I need pops up, and when I’m home, I only see the Azure Span ones.
There are issues with the elemental storms, that were left unaddressed because the event was already irrelevant by the time of it’s inception, well except for lariat fishing, but the actual problems of the event wouldn’t come up with that. I am really curious to see if they were to address them now that there is a major spike of interest.
Azure having 3 locations, while Thaldraszus and Ohn’ahran having only one each, the Obsidian Citadel one in Waking Shore having an obscenely small area, the mobs itself spawned by the event not counting toward the achievement because they are not infused with the storm.
Fixing these, and adding even just a zone rotation or straight up bringing back 2 storms per event would make it more enjoyable.
I only need a snowstorm in Thaldraszus but it’s never up. They really should do something with it. Two storms at the same time or a zone rotation would be great.
I really hope they do - this seems to be a huge logical oversight - while I think they reduced the spawn timer and spawn locations due to the introduction of the primal storm event - they didn’t adjust the achievement itself. If you change one (spawn ratio and timer) you have to modify the other (achievement) as well (unless ofc it needed justified adjustments) - but it was untouched.
The current implementation is a statistical nightmare.
