A Change of Heart - Opinions on he Hunt Community.

I think most people can admit that the early Hunts were quite a mess and there was a lot of vitriol in the community over them, but over time I've seen a lot of change in the Hunt community on Excalibur and I deeply thank our server's Teamspeak group leaders for helping correct the bad behavior that ran rampant.

This is a good direction for our community and I've gotten back into Hunts thanks to the fostering of good community within the Hunt community. I hope we continue to go down this road of positive enforcement.

Mob resetting is still a problem when parties are engaging already, but that's something that I feel will get better as time goes on.

Happy Hunting.


EDIT: Opinions on the Hunt Community. If a moderator can fix that, that would be appreciated. Can't edit thread titles.

Uh huh, good for you. I still see a stream of expletives in shout chat over on Balmung, to the point I click to another tab when a hunt is up. So congrats on kissing your Linkshell leader's tochus, but the problem is still there.

Not to mention all other content in the game now being a ghost town because of ONE EVENT.

Yep, hunts have damaged most other content, i am used to being healer with quick queues now i very often can get ones taking well over 15-30 minutes. But i would like to know why you made this topic just to "praise" an LS on one server. Are you trying to get brownie points?

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

Uh huh, good for you. I still see a stream of expletives in shout chat over on Balmung, to the point I click to another tab when a hunt is up. So congrats on kissing your Linkshell leader's tochus, but the problem is still there.

Not to mention all other content in the game now being a ghost town because of ONE EVENT.

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Now, I'm still against this as content but the community has gotten 100x better on my server and I'm happy about it.

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Originally Posted by Volcano

Are you trying to get brownie points?

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I wouldn't gain anything from that, so no.
But I have been very vocal about being very against the Hunt community in my server in various threads on this forum.

DONT FORGET TO POKE THE QUACKBOT!!!!! XDDDD

I think people on other servers wouldn't hate hunts so much if they learned to share. I wonder how SE feels about how this content has been turned on its head, made into something super cooperative instead of hyper competitive. Well, on our server, anyway. Judging by the salty comments from folks on other servers in this thread, I'd assume it's hyper competitive there. As intended?

I'm still confused as to why it's not phased content, where you can only find/challenge elite marks with an appropriate hunting license. I would have thought NMs in FFXI would have been enough evidence of what happens when you introduce highly desired open world content, but I guess not. Especially perplexing since Yoshida has gone on record as not wanting competitive content in PvE (direct competition, such as, you know, what the Hunts are - this was the reasoning behind not bringing back an NM system).

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

Uh huh, good for you. I still see a stream of expletives in shout chat over on Balmung, to the point I click to another tab when a hunt is up. So congrats on kissing your Linkshell leader's tochus, but the problem is still there.

Not to mention all other content in the game now being a ghost town because of ONE EVENT.

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Glad I wasn't the only one noticing this on the server. :<

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

Not to mention all other content in the game now being a ghost town because of LOCKOUTS.

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FTFY.

Better.

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Originally Posted by Hiruke

I'm still confused as to why it's not phased content, where you can only find/challenge elite marks with an appropriate hunting license. I would have thought NMs in FFXI would have been enough evidence of what happens when you introduce highly desired open world content, but I guess not. Especially perplexing since Yoshida has gone on record as not wanting competitive content in PvE (direct competition, such as, you know, what the Hunts are - this was the reasoning behind not bringing back an NM system).

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B's and As would have good as phased content, but the S ranks as they are, with more active triggers not just weather conditions. It's kinda fun trying to actively trigger certain S ranks with a large number of people.

For the B rank hunts it seems to have become more reasonable. Players usually shout and a small group forms to kill it and then everyone goes on their way. Still issues though, specially for higher ranks- and in general the monsters are neat to find but rather boring to fight. SE still has work to do, the hp hot patch to give players a longer chance to join in and the easier earn in for full reward are nice.. But I would not call it solid finished content.


Hunts are still in beta imo.