Hunts - Obtaining the hunt quest locations

Nutz - i am sure it says the elites have to be under certain conditions. So I would assume those take a bit longer to do and perhaps need a full team.

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Originally Posted by Nutz

Sounds nice and all, but really? 1 regular per day and 1 elite per week? This sounds like 5 minutes of content per day, give or take. Maybe it's more than the description makes it out to be. The rewards certainly seem to indicate that at least, though I wonder how many marks/ elite marks you'd need to down to get sand/ oil/ alexandrite.

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I think they mean a new -list- of regular and elite marks is posted each day/week. Think of it as getting a fresh hunting log every day, and a special hunting log each week. (Keep in mind there are B, A, and S-rank elite marks, so one elite mark per week would make no sense.)

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Sounds nice and all, but really? 1 regular per day and 1 elite per week? This sounds like 5 minutes of content per day, give or take. Maybe it's more than the description makes it out to be

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Seems like we get a daily standard hunt and then 3 elite per week. The elite hunts will need to present a decent challenge to groups of 8, they won't be trivial. I'm just happy they're opening up Sands/Oils/Alex a bit more.

If you're getting the 3 from the various ranks, I'm not reading it like that at all. Seems it's one a week which can be one of those various ranks. Also "appears under certain conditions" I'm reading as a forced pop, in contrast to regular hunts which are open world monsters that already exist.

I like the ability to gain sands/oils/alex from this as well. I have yet to step in BCoB2 yet so will be nice. I can start working on a Burtgang now.

Syn

Part of the reason I liked the Hunts from XII is because each and every single one of them was a unique monster. Though I stretch the term loosely as palette swaps are unique by my standards, especially in comparison to the the repeated unrecolored monsters of XIV So I hope that aspect is retained.

[NOTE: I mean to say that recolors are rarer here than in XII. I guess it might be an MMO thing]

In contrast I had a minor gripe with the Rare game system (also from XII) because of the repeated palettes (save one specific case, and at least some of them were resized)

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Originally Posted by blowfin

Seems like we get a daily standard hunt and then 3 elite per week. The elite hunts will need to present a decent challenge to groups of 8, they won't be trivial. I'm just happy they're opening up Sands/Oils/Alex a bit more.

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Why stop at 8. especialy considering Odin's fate and the superbosses like Yiazmat could easily make for a challenge even with 24 players.

Probably because that's the max party size and I doubt rewards will be distributed outside the party. Unless it's a FATE, and to hell with that.

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Originally Posted by Brine_Gildchaff

I think they mean a new -list- of regular and elite marks is posted each day/week. Think of it as getting a fresh hunting log every day, and a special hunting log each week. (Keep in mind there are B, A, and S-rank elite marks, so one elite mark per week would make no sense.)

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I hadn't considered that. It does sound better that way and upon rechecking it they do use the plural. The way I initially read it it sounded like possibly the equivalent of 1 peisteskin map per week plus a few regular mobs to kill each day. I'm a bit more hopeful then. It felt like they were trying to severely stretch out reward acquisition, though I'm sure they are to some degree.

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Wait you buried the lead. They released info on hunts.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...216ab8886a09af

Of particular interest is the rewards.


Sands and oils from hunts. Interesting.

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well, this is going to make hunts be spamed as much as they can.

With the ability to make our own alliances in 2.3, I wonder if this system could later accommodate 24-person parties.