Posted 30 October 2012 - 14:18
For a large majority of the players there is little use of hunting a titan that only appears 2 weeks per year.
...if they are after the drop...
In the last 8 days 35 titans appeared; that's an average of 61.25 in 2 weeks. There are 13 possible titans (not counting Wickerman) so each titan appears around 4.7 times in two weeks time. The first time will probably be a force spawn so that makes 5.7 times in two weeks.
With many people hunting this new titan the kills (and thus TKP) will be divided among many guilds.
The level of the titan is important here, because a low level means more hunters while a high level means less hunters. Since it's part of a Global Event I'd guess that the level will be fairly low so most players can participate. That means a lot of hunters.
Other low level titans are the Kraken, Ogalith, Wickerman and Skaldir titans. They have around 3.5k, 4k, 4.2k and 5k Titan HP and their drops cost 6.75k, 8k, 8.75k and 9.25k TKP.
My best guess is that this seasonal titan will also have around 3.5k-4.5k THPs and that its drop costs around twice the creature's THP in TKP (so around 7k to 9k TKP).
With many hunters no single guild will be able to secure the drop through getting over 50% of the kills (except perhaps the biggest and most organised guilds).
Guilds that aren't among the top titan hunter guilds will only get a handful of kills each time the titan appears (probably 5 or 6 times in the two weeks). They might get 100, 150 or even 200 kills, but probably won't make it to the top 5 spots for bonus TKP. Even if they do manage to get kills each of the 5 or 6 times the titan appears; that's still only around 900 TKP in total.
It would take 8 to 10 years for most guilds to get the titan drop through TKP...
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