Olm the Wise spawn timer (Guestimation)
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Olm the Wise spawn timer (Guestimation)
Olm starts ticking at 3am.. lets say the servers came live at 10am and hes found fluttering around and tamed (7 hours after they began). The timer starts ticking down again from that point and hes discovered at 5pm (he just did for Wyrmrest Accord and its 7 hours from the first live-server tame/kill).
This is all guestimation but they've only failed me a couple times-- namely actually only in the case of trying to catch Loque'nahak because he was being a huge SoB for me to catch...
I have reason to believe Olm has a 7 hour spawn timer but i will give him some leeway and say its a possible 6-10 hour spawn timer. He spawned at the exact same time both Death Howl and Mongress spawned (again, this is all only because the server restart was just last night so everyones timers are fresh, exact, and clean)
And sadly i lost Olm to the other hunter camping BECAUSE i went to check out a possible link between Death Howl/Mongress/The Ongar and Olm-- i read somewhere that someone found one of them and then saw Olm soon after when neither had existed moments before
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Re: Near-exact Olm the Wise spawn timer
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One question...Xakaal wrote:Timers begin counting down when servers shut down which was approx 3am last night. Servers usually go live around 10am most times in my knowledge instead of 11am.
Why do you think Olm's timer started counting down at 3am again? Rare spawns don't reset at 3am, and I doubt his would start counting down at 3am considering all of the servers were down at 3am...
Knowing when they came back up is the key, and since they came back up only on Blizzard's side probably hours before they came back up for all of us... we have no clue when anyone's timer started.
Just because some rares are up when the servers come back online doesn't mean they spawned when the server came online, and if Blizzard did a "hard reset/restart" it would indeed reset stuff... It's also the reason that Olm (or any rare) won't be up on all servers at the same time.... unless the planets align just right.
I am not sure if I am being as coherent as I should be... so hopefully you get what I am trying to say.
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Olm could of spawned between 9am and 10am but at 9am no one is online so he sits there doing nothing. At 10am the servers go live and someone disposes of him, the timer starts once more from 00:00:00. 7 hours later Olm spawns and is tamed (i saw it myself earlier) and the timer has reset once more to 00:00:00.
Most rares have a varied timer, the most common one nowadays is 6-10 but some have exact timers which gives me reason to believe he can be on a 7 hour timer.
If i see him around 12pm tonight i will be able to confirm this 100% accurate because its just too coincidental in one day for me to believe he just so happens to pop 3 times in a row in 7 hour intervals.
Again, the patch notes said Old World rares will have their timers severely reduced and I can confirm 100% that i saw Rak'shiri spawn 5 times within 2 days (i killed him or re-homed him or had someone else kill him infront of me) and this was back in 4.0.3.
To have Olm on a timer any longer then 12 hours is absolutely absurd in my honest opinion after what Blizz announced for the re-introduced rares.
Edit: And to get more of my guestimation on Olm surviving for an hour to hour n a half across, both Mongress and Death Howl have been alive and well for 2 1/2 hours straight now. Felwood has been void of any horde chars and I havent seen a single ally along the roads or towns or rarespawn grounds since the Night Elf Hunter i was battling for Olm over caught him.
And this method is how i captured Arcturis, was 100% fullproof. The first spawn he made was tamed by my friend right infront of me and the second spawn was the next day and was done by me. first spawn was 21 hours which is his bare minimum to show up and i got him for myself 24 hours after which is his maximum to show up.
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By the way, good luck to all of you hunters looking for him.
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*prays for olm* i really regret flying south, i didnt want to have to set up camp for a late night spawn, ive done too many for my likes in the past but i cant afford ppl killing/taming him to get it so messed up i can never predict him
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First spawn was at 3:45 server time, second spawn was at 11:17 server time. almost exactly 7 hours and 30 minutes.
Good luck to all of you hunters out there and special thanks to Xakaal.
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Congrats!!! I seem to be having TOTALLY different luck. I got paranoid and started checking in every hour after his last spawn and he literally spawned behind me only 5 hours later...Blacktide wrote:Grats Xakaal! 7 hour spawn time is absolutely correct. I just tamed him! woot! or should I say Hoot!
First spawn was at 3:45 server time, second spawn was at 11:17 server time. almost exactly 7 hours and 30 minutes.
Good luck to all of you hunters out there and special thanks to Xakaal.


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Now I'm without a timer again. I first saw Olm with a Worgen around 5 server time. He got to him literally 20 seconds before me. I was tabbed out and he just waltz into the area, tamed, and left. About an hour later, Olm goes off again, but I'm not sure if it was that Worgen's Olm or not. At 12:30 server time (a few minutes ago) Olm goes off again, but he was already tamed by a Blood Elf. I have no idea if this was an earlier tame or not since the person who tamed him logged off immediately. I find iit odd the minute I get the warning Olm is already tamed.
Olm is really starting to piss me off. And Madexx while I'm at it.
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I seem to always end up camping rares with no one there or most of them are ally cause the horde ppl see me sitting there and wish me good luck n fly away never to be seen again and the ally are really nice too lol.
I log over to their side and we talk and share ideas on when the mob will spawn and wish eachother good luck and if they capture the mob first they either come over and show me or they leave a mail in my mailbox if im not online (i do the same thing for them)
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I actually left Uldum last night to see if Olm was up... I was not really expecting him to be up, but I was curious how many hunters were in his location(s) camping.
I never have an active pet out so it's easier for me to tame pets without having to Dismiss one first.
I got to Felwood and started flying towards his northern most spawn... passing a few hunters along the way.
I came around a tree and NPC Scan went off... I SEE OLM... my heart starts beating faster and I remember that there are other hunters in the area so I shoot Arcane Shot to tag Olm so I can get the claim and then I start cramming on my Tame Beast button.
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What's this? Red letters on my screen telling me I can't do something? What is the meaning of this?!
I then realize that Olm was dead and the red letters were telling me I couldn't use Tame Beast. I quickly got pretty mad... I looked around to see who killed him, but no one was there. Then I thought... did I have a pet out and it killed Olm? No... no pet out.
I am L.85... Olm is like L.48 or so... since I have been messing with mostly L.80+ pets recently I didn't think twice about using Arcane Shot to claim him.... I should have thought twice.
My Arcane shot had one-shotted him..............

So I figured that I would come back 6-7 hours later and see if I can not kill him the second time around....
Fast Forward to 6-7 hours later...
I arrive roughly 6 hours later. Olm isn't up and no one is around.
30min later... still nothing.
7 hour mark... still nothing
7h17min-ish mark... I see a warning about a server restart in 15min...
7h30min mark... still no Olm.
Few minutes later server shuts down, so I sat here trying to log back on every 5-10sec til I log back in...
Olm is still not up...
I keep checking...
4 hours later and still no Olm...
I KNOW I didn't miss him from the 6hr-ish log on til now... and if my math is right...that would make it almost 11hrs from the time I accidently one-shotted him.
I know I didn't miss him because a fellow hunter that has been talking to me since Cataclysm came out was there at the time also, and no one else... we were constantly flying around to Olm's spawnpoints. The spawn points aren't that far apart and we easily could fly to every point in less than 15sec... and we were blanketing the area, no way anyone could have shown up to tame Olm and leave without us seeing them.
So now I am unsure why he didn't spawn around the 7hr mark like everyone else is experiencing...