If you've only just jumped into Final Fantasy 14 with the release of Dawntrail, chances are you'll be unfamiliar with S-Rank Hunts. Every expansion, a set of powerful monsters appear in each area that can only realistically be taken down by a team of players, though getting some of them to actually appear is a challenge in itself.
Unlike most monsters in Final Fantasy 14, some of these S-Rank hunts require very specific circumstances to spawn, some of which are so ludicrous that teams of players have adopted bizarre rituals on the off-chance that Square Enix is cheeky and does it again.
Despite what the numbers say, Dawntrail isn’t the worst Final Fantasy XIV expansion.
Twitter user NymeiasWard put together a handy list of just a few of the bizarre things players have had to do to get these things to spawn in the past, and the highlights include dying while wearing ARR armor in Endwalker, discarding over 50 fish meal, and standing around the spawn point with 9 other players while you all have a specific minion out.
Dawntrail has another of these tricky S-Rank monsters that refused to show up for a few days called...
