Hunt marks shouldn't only be available in FATEs

What's the point of having Seps as a normal mark when it's only available during the FATE?

To screw with you. seriously though, the B, A, and S rank ones are really the only ones worth your time. the others give TINY rewards, and finding/fighting the higher rank ones is actually entertaining/rewarding. the basic hunts just feel like lame fetch quests.

I'm fairly certain that the 1,000 gil you get from the daily hunts are a better reward than the 1 allied seal. Of course that's negated by teleporting, but if you happen to find yourself in the appropriate zone I guess you might as well....

I don't know about other servers, but on Siren, I waited for 4 hours for Naul to pop last night. 3 pops missed first none. None reported the whole time last night. It's only added to the reason that childish or malicious folks will shout fake coordinates for gullible people to follow to find nothing there. Got the dailies done both days so far and managed to kill a new monster in Souther Thanalan first night, but still waiting on the weekly. Spending so much time earning $$ to buy brooms to clean Chocobo stables, don't have much time to do this.

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Originally Posted by EricCartmenez

don't have much time to do this.

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Exactly my point. My girlfriend and I waited three hours for the Seps FATE to spawn last night and gave up since it was the only mark either of us had left. Sure, they may not be worth much, but if a mark is going to be gated behind a FATE, it needs to be one that spawns more frequently than Giant Seps.

At 1st I tought this was kind of like the Hunting Log with pretty pictures but when I found out that some of these marks only pop with Fates I said screw this. I am not going to stand around waiting for a Fate to pop for 1000 gil when it took me 500 just to teleport here

Yeah, i'm really frustrated that i've been waiting almost an hour for 1 fate to spawn, while another fate has spawned 3 times already. The regular marks should be much simpler to finish, and the Elite fates should be the more challenging ones... this is driving me crazy.

In all honesty the whole hunt is seriously flawed. Elite marks may be the way to get marks faster, but at the same time they spawn randomly through the entire zone and have extremely low HP. When you have hundreds of people hunting the elite marks this means that the chance of more than a handful of the many even getting credit, let alone seeing it alive, far too low.

SE should have done the following:
Made multiple spawns at a given time of the same mark.
Increased the HP of the single mark allowing more to get credit.
Or done both.

Due to how you get credit (x% of damage dealt) this means getting to the mark is far more difficult than even killing or finding the mark.

In another MMO they had a system going so say you killing this mob who has say 1K hp. Someone comes along and thinks yeah I'll have a big of the action. The mobs HP rose to 2K to accommodate for this new person. Thus allowing everyone to get a fair chance of killing the mob. SE could have been more flexible in how they achieved this knowing the influx of people who would be wanting to do it.

It would make the fights more interesting rather than the 10 second zerg we currently have.

As to the marks that are fate bosses it does seem a bit ridiculous considering spawn times and amount of fate related objectives we've had to deal with recently but if you don't really want to do them you can always discard the mark bills and wait for fresh ones the following day.

They really need to up the XP of all the marks so people have the time to get in a few good attacks, Naul doesn't last more than 10 secs if there's 15+ people there

I don't even bother with the FATEs that spawn more rarely.

After doing enough atma hunting, you tend to have a feel for which ones you will be able to find relatively easily and which ones could potentially take hours.

When I get my daily hunting log, I check the FATE enemies first. When I know the FATE and know it spawns in a normal manner, I try to do it. When I do not really know the FATE or know it is a rare spawning one, I just trash the book. Animus told me one thing: to never ever wait again for a FATE. Waiting 2 hours and zerging it down in under a minute? Never again going to happen for me. I rather make extra and unneeded tax declarations.

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Originally Posted by Kitkat

In all honesty the whole hunt is seriously flawed. Elite marks may be the way to get marks faster, but at the same time they spawn randomly through the entire zone and have extremely low HP. When you have hundreds of people hunting the elite marks this means that the chance of more than a handful of the many even getting credit, let alone seeing it alive, far too low.

SE should have done the following:
Made multiple spawns at a given time of the same mark.
Increased the HP of the single mark allowing more to get credit.
Or done both.

Due to how you get credit (x% of damage dealt) this means getting to the mark is far more difficult than even killing or finding the mark.

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Or, you could,
learn to hunt.

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Originally Posted by Logo

Or, you could,
learn to hunt.

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Learn to hunt?

Translation: Get radar app.

No thanks. Enjoy your ban maybe...I dunno, SE is pretty crap with rules.

I'd like the daily marks more if the total for doing them was like 20/day seals out of a 4k cap doesn't seem that bad. Doing B-S rank is pretty much impossible for a number of reasons everyone is aware of by now, for people that won't use add-ons or dislike Elite attitudes. Getting rid if the 2 fates in the marks would be nice to since i not really into waiting 6 hours for two fates. I picked 20 due to the amount of wolf seals you used to get for spending 10 minutes getting put to sleep, or was that 10 seals for getting put to sleep and 20 for winning? Only other thing bad about hunts and the new tower. Is all that hard work to build Atma/Novus is overshot by one lucky tower haul (tombstone) and the sand from hunt marks.

This is an interesting part of the Q&A from the actual Live Letter, maybe there is Hope. :p

"Q4: Currently, the daily mark bills are difficult to complete due to the spawn rate of certain FATEs. Is there any way we can complete this in an easier fashion?

A4: While we won’t be able to make FATEs spawn constantly, we will look into increasing the spawn rate of FATEs."

Imo they just need to do one thing. If a FATE is used for a side quest, doesn't matter if Story, Hilidbrand, Beast tribes, Animus, Hunts or whatever, increase the spawn rate of it. Make it pop at least every 10 minutes outside of normal rotations.

I think the whole Hunt mark system is broke at the moment.

Daily hunts
How is 2 hours and 30 mins of work worth 7 points?
Most of this time is wasted on waiting for FATES to pop and in the mean time you can't do DF stuff in case you miss the FATE

Elite Hunts

As Daily hunts are so not worth it most people are partying up and non-stop burning these, their for these drop in less that 30 seconds as there HP is way too low.

By what I have been told

B marks are mean to be for soloing
A marks are mean for parties
S mark are mean for Alliances

All three of these are being taken out by 20+ ppl when they get found.

Short version is that the whole hunt system is pointless for any causal player