Please Fix Hunts Post 2.4!

I know hunts were a pain on this game for a lot of people, with starting too soon, etc, but now they're downright dead unless they're an S Rank... which I don't think is right either... I think there are two solutions that would make hunts better:

A.) Keep drops the same amount as they are, but make A ranks a bit easier to fight and spawn quicker (instead of 4 hours, say 2 or 3 hours). I think this would help, seeing as its very hard to kill A Ranks with only 4-5 people which seems to be the average group size I'm getting on my server most days unless its a very busy time for some reason, and even then, maybe 2 groups if you're lucky.

B.) Increase the amount of Soldiery and Poetics obtained from A ranks and S ranks. Something like 50 Soldiery and 5 Poetics from an A rank and 100 Soldiery and leave the 10 Poetics from an S rank would probably increase people participating again to a decent amount.

Really.....? First it was too many people at hunts waaahhhh, now its... not enough people at hunts waaahhhhh.....

Negative.

Hunts are the only way in this game to get allied seals, be happy with that. People that wanna do hunts all day should be happy that they get what they get now for essentially spamming fateless fates.

Please don't be rude about it, I respect your opinion, so please respect mine. Before 2.4 came out, hunts were the best way to farm Novus, and a good way for new players to gear up when they hit 50, now that 2.4 has come out, its not a good way to farm anything unless the only way to get it is through allied seals. Point blank, its killed hunts, which were an enjoyable aspect of the game and now they're dead. Please consider that when you only have 4-5 players doing a hunt, that's not even worth it. A ranks can 1 shot people, and depending on DPS take 20 minutes+ to kill. That's a waste of time when you could spend it farming ST instead and get more Soldiery and a chance at Oils/Sands right that second.

My suggestion was how to make it less of a waste of time. I didn't just QQ about it, I offered a few possible solutions to what I perceive as a problem. A Ranks standing around is a bit of a problem, it blocks low levels from their mobs and FATEs, and high levels from doing their business. At the very LEAST make A Ranks passive instead of aggroable.

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Originally Posted by Atlantasia

Please don't be rude about it, I respect your opinion, so please respect mine. Before 2.4 came out, hunts were the best way to farm Novus, and a good way for new players to gear up when they hit 50, now that 2.4 has come out, its not a good way to farm anything unless the only way to get it is through allied seals. Point blank, its killed hunts, which were an enjoyable aspect of the game and now they're dead. Please consider that when you only have 4-5 players doing a hunt, that's not even worth it. A ranks can 1 shot people, and depending on DPS take 20 minutes+ to kill. That's a waste of time when you could spend it farming ST instead and get more Soldiery and a chance at Oils/Sands right that second.

My suggestion was how to make it less of a waste of time. I didn't just QQ about it, I offered a few possible solutions to what I perceive as a problem. A Ranks standing around is a bit of a problem, it blocks low levels from their mobs and FATEs, and high levels from doing their business. At the very LEAST make A Ranks passive instead of aggroable.

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I had this problem in two situations. The first time I was doing ninja quest in Upper La Noscea, right after I left the instanced area I was one shot by Marberry who was right next to the spawn area.
The second time was today when I was atma grinding in Central Thanalan. The A rank was camped right on top of a low level fate making it difficult to complete the fate without also getting one shot.

The zerg needs to stay gone, keep poetics out of hunts. I'm on a server with a low enough population to have small houses still up for sale, and there are still plenty of people doing hunts during peak hours.