Hunts are the best thing to happen to XIV's community since launch

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Originally Posted by Recaldy

Prime time NA people pull pretty quickly.

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This. Early morning hunts are quite fun. People can be quite polite. Prime time though? It's a madhouse free for all.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

Except that it hasn't calmed down. People still rage after every mark has been downed. People intentionally reset the marks, even when the horde (lok'tar o'gar) is already there. And I've witnessed some of these participants mock you for wanting to join a party. It's not like when you're about to participate in a Behemoth or Odin FATE, where you ask to join a group and someone sends an invite. It's more like "NO! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!" with some of these participants.

Now I have no negative feelings regarding the elite hunts themselves, it's the people.

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Originally Posted by Brine_Gildchaff

I honestly have to wonder if this is a server/time thing, to be frank. I've had far less trouble running things on Malboro on off-peak hours. And there are ways to get around this too; lately when I stumble on a mark or hear a shout for one that I'm close enough to get to, I've taken to immediately start flinging out invites of my own to anyone I see calling for one. That way the "stragglers" end up all banding together as they make their way to the mark.

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Originally Posted by Recaldy

You must be playing late at night for Westerners cause that's when people wait. Prime time NA people pull pretty quickly.

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

This. Early morning hunts are quite fun. People can be quite polite. Prime time though? It's a madhouse free for all.

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I think this may sum it up. There's no mocking on Balmung, at least not on EU prime times when I play. There's not much (but still some) anger at early pulls it's more exasperation these days, like "Really? You couldn't wait for 90 seconds?" compared to the early days of "Joe Bloggs pulled! BLIST! Everyone BLIST Joe Bloggs"

This concept of "early pullers" needs to die in a fire. B rank mobs aren't meant to be waited on for the whole server to show up; what happens then is most people don't get full credit. This OCD people get of "oh I'm entitled to every single mark that shows up no matter who found it" is ridiculous.

And intentional resets are griefing and covered under ToS, I know I'll be starting to report people doing it and recommending others do also.

On the weekend there is much rage during hunts on Gilgamesh. All the trolls are out of school or not working. On weekdays during the morning or very late it night it's very nice. People wait, say please and thank you, etc. It's a complete turnaround from the weekends. Primetime on weekdays can still be nice as long as the trolls are napping.

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Originally Posted by Alistaire

And intentional resets are griefing and covered under ToS, I know I'll be starting to report people doing it and recommending others do also.

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Really? Resetting the mob is seen as a very good thing on my server. It allows more people to get credit. It's certainly not looked at as griefing, quite the opposite.

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Originally Posted by Aegis

Really? Resetting the mob is seen as a very good thing on my server. It allows more people to get credit. It's certainly not looked at as griefing, quite the opposite.

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It's griefing 100%. B ranks were not meant for everyone and their mother on the server to gang up on. That's more in line with an S rank, and even then there are still too many people. We had this issue early on with FATE mobs, people would continually reset the fate mob for various reasons. Which is why SE disabled provoke for them, and they also said to report those who did it.

It hasn't done a thing for the community. If anything, people are more divided now than they were before since everyone is fighting over the same mobs and only a handful are actually getting the full credit for kills.

Hunts are flawed, I won't deny it, but you know what? They are actually the first genuine mmorpg content this game has.

Ever since hunts started I : 1) Found myself playing more. There wasn't a time when I told myself "wow, everything is capped/locked out, what to do?" 2) Exploring Eorzea, seeing players around. Areas like central shourd found new life instead of being desert town 3) Talked with people. I expanded my FL, joined Hunt LS and made some friends, joined parties were people actually talk about random stuff, organized S Rank spawn

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

It hasn't done a thing for the community. If anything, people are more divided now than they were before since everyone is fighting over the same mobs and only a handful are actually getting the full credit for kills.

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Hunts created a community, to begin with. Yes, some people are quite selfish, but what do you except in a game based on Instances and DF?

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Originally Posted by ispano

It's griefing 100%. B ranks were not meant for everyone and their mother on the server to gang up on. That's more in line with an S rank, and even then there are still too many people. We had this issue early on with FATE mobs, people would continually reset the fate mob for various reasons. Which is why SE disabled provoke for them, and they also said to report those who did it.

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So if someone accidentally facepulls an A rank, they shouldn't run it until it resets?

I hope Yoshida has the guts to nerf the sands/oils in tonight's patch. Would make the hunts less of a zerg-fest all day.