Please, give us hunts back :(

I just passed for more then 1hour in same A and i call my LS's (that is 6 for hunts) and nothing, he was still there.

Checked website, a lot 99% open. People don't even care anymore.

Please, just 2x more soldier would fix this problem or even just 5 Poetic drop. Just that.

Was never thinking i would miss hunts :( but it's getting boring already farming over and over same 2 dungeon (qarn-snowcloak).

I assure you, when the sands/oils of FCoB get added to your GC's allied seals market, Hunts will pick back up again. Until then it's dungeons or bust (which I'm personally fine with as I miss speedrunning stuff and it's fun trying to optimize Qarncloak runs).

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Originally Posted by Mokado

I just passed for more then 1hour in same A and i call my LS's (that is 6 for hunts) and nothing, he was still there.

Checked website, a lot 99% open. People don't even care anymore.

Please, just 2x more soldier would fix this problem or even just 5 Poetic drop. Just that.

Was never thinking i would miss hunts :( but it's getting boring already farming over and over same 2 dungeon (qarn-snowcloak).

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yep, Hunt got owned by 2.4 =D

It's the lack of poetics on hunts really. Many people, including myself, preferred hunts by far over the dungeon farming to reach weekly cap. Unfortunately SE killed that off. So it's back to zerging through dungeons with guildies.

For me, poetics are not the issue. I want them to make hunts the way to cap solds!!!!!! Theres not a good way to cap solds as we had with myths.

its not dead, alest not on my server alot people still doing hunts daily everyday.

Might as well share it here.

I was in Aleport trying to complete a rogue class quest when I noticed that somebody had shouted that Naan is around. I opened his flag and job changed to warrior and rode there. When I got there I saw a paladin, a dragoon and a white mage. I got myself invited to their party but it turns out that the white mage is not in the party because she did not want to leave her DF queue. I thought nothing of it and we started with just us four. I let the paladin took charge and focused on doing damage. It took longer than expected and I started losing focus while dodging the crab's AOE attacks. Suddenly...the paladin dropped dead. I quickly put up defiance and started using my tanking actions. I wondered why the paladin dropped from full HP to zero and noticed the crab's buffs. My eyes widened when I noticed it's 10 stacks of damage increase and it increases over time. Sure enough, tanking this crab hurts. I wasn't sure if the white mage is having trouble targeting my party's to heal us so I poured everything into defense. It got really dangerous for me and I even made good use of holmgang but alas, at about 1%, I was defeated. There was only the dragoon and white mage left and the crab had a dozen stacks at least but it was defeated before it could strike down the dragoon and white mage and we all got our marks. We both got raised, had a laugh, and parted ways.

http://puu.sh/cGGxY/cff49e79a6.jpg

Best hunting experience yet and it was just about half hour ago.

As a Paladin, I think Hunts were the great equaliser between classes. With Poetics I can be lazy and still cap them on Tuesday, DPS with long queue times don't get the insta queue that I get, so for Tank/Healer we can acquire Sold/Poet at a far quicker rate than DPS classes can using DF. With Hunts, DPS don't have to wait 30-40m for a queue to pop, they are not limited to 50/40/hour (compared to Tank/Healer 150/120), that's why I think Hunts should be a valid alternative for DPS to gain tomes at a reasonable rate.

No thanks, hunts was the worst content in FFXIV for me

Is there some sick joke I'm not getting about this?


People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

Update the Allied Seals reward list with new stuff (minions, glamour gear and weapons). You'd see a resurgence again.

Ahh the cycle is complete from "Hunts give too good items for the skill required", then acceptance, now complaining that rewards aren't good enough, soon we will all accept this new norm.

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People complain running dungeons is boring. People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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People are strange

There a less people hunting but there are still a few and that makes the fights more interesting.
I'm happy with the current status, where people will not specifically go on hunting but will shout for help if they see one.
And there is less early pull, rage and name calling.

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Don't really miss this event. Wasn't amused by alt-tabbing while running around in circles for the mark or recklessly bashing medicas. Stayed for the bare minimum of catchup 110 items.

I used Expert dungeon daily for most of my soldiery back in 2.3 and it'll be the same for poetics now. Thought they'd have expanded hunts via new marks and I'm kind of glad they didn't, although I'll predict it again for 2.5.

2.4 hunt finally allows me to have less than 5 mins queue as a dps for expert dungeons. Good step.

Also, hunts are way funnier when you do them with 4-10 people instead of the mindless zerging of 2.3

I think at this point they should just put oil/sands up for purchase with soldiery.

Hunts were kinda crappy. Actually, how they are now is MORE fun... someone in the FC bumps into Marraco and is like "Heya, anyone wanna help with Marraco? 26,26 CCH" and then we get a small group and kill them, and go about out day. Kinda like some nice little break from grinding.

I noticed this last night but I put a party together and once word of mouth starting going around people came. It seems that most people don't want to get into a party for the long haul anymore and just kind of jump in and out as they please.

Sadly with the very long queue times for DPS the hunts are still needed as trying to do your novus weapon right now has become a lot more difficult since it takes so long to get into dungeons now. I would like to see an increase in soldiery for the hunts.

Thank GOD they made hunts obsolete.
So happy that I don't have to drop everything and run to some stupid mobs just to have the server almost die due to massive player gatherings.

Never liked the gameplay of "run around like a chicken to search for a mob you'll then zerg within 10(A) / 40 (S) seconds" anyway.

I miss them too. Hunts worked on my server. :/ I will agree the rewards were probably a bit high before 2.4, but now hardly anyone is going to fight hunts marks since the rewards are too low (especially in comparison).

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Is there some sick joke I'm not getting about this?
People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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I would much rather run around in the open world looking for mobs than spam aoe damage in short-hallway dungeons.

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Thank GOD they made hunts obsolete.
So happy that I don't have to drop everything and run to some stupid mobs just to have the server almost die due to massive player gatherings.

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You don't HAVE to do anything in this game. :/ If you don't like it, skip it.

Hunts were popular because they were the best way to grind Myth (less so for Soldiery) and to get Oils and Sands. Now that half of the tome award has been dropped and the weekly restriction from Syrcus Tower has been removed, there's no incentive. It's far, far faster to farm ST for oils and sands and Soldiery (mainly for alt jobs I expect) than do hunts.

I actually loved hunting before they nerfed B class. The creation of hunting LSs was a great example of cooperation. You could hunt as long as you wanted, drop, join again for awhile, etc. Very casual friendly.

I still think they should atleast the i90 gear back, I have been farming i90 for my dps class, but all that I find in the dungeons are crafting items.
So SE either:
1. Remove crafting items from chest.
2. Make some dungeons have more chest with i90 items only.

I'm happy with where it's at now. Hunts actually feel like, well, hunts. I feel no guilt about "pulling early", the enemies are actually tougher to beat now, and still a decent reward. I won't actively hunt anymore, like with a group, but I can just see A's around and claim them as my own with a small PT of FC/LS mates. It's awesome, I'm happy.

The only thing i ever found wrong with hunts is making it so oil and sand is obtainable by it. Great for those players that think gear= skill i guess
As far as the main topic goes hunts true have died down, those linkshells that thought they owned all the hunts are hardly around. But this is simply because of the new content and classes, i would think a month or 2 from now they may be popular once more

Hunts are actually fun nuw since people don't zerg it anymore. Some of the A ranks are pretty tough and get to theither mechanics.

I think hunts are in a great place right now. There are still plenty of people doing them, but it's thankfully not a ginormous zergfest anymore. And what's neat is you start to realize that the bosses actually have some mechanics - the A rank in Northern Thanalan for example, casts Tornado which will 1 shot if it hits only 1 person, but stacked together the damage is split amongst everyone hit by it. I think they could maaaaybe reduce the HP of hunts back to what it was before they buffed it though, does anyone remember what the % was?

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Originally Posted by Someguy

Is there some sick joke I'm not getting about this?


People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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People and people aren't necessarily the same people.

But still. Boredom isn't the only factor. Dungeons and hunts are both boring (after the first run or two). But hunts are very low-commitment. I'll do some pretty boring stuff for a few hours if I've got time to break up the monotony with other stuff. Most nights, I have 3-5 hours to play, but only 1 or 2 of those have enough unbroken time to commit to dungeons. The rest of that time, hunts are perfect, because it's no big deal to go AFK or take care of ventures/auctions/unspoiled nodes/whatever several times an hour.

I have no complaints about the way hunts are now, though. I took advantage of the zerg (toward the end; late to the party) while it was a thing, but I'm not sad to see it go. It's cool getting in on a smaller party that happens to catch things in the moment.

Hunts do not need to go back to the way they were.

The only change I want to see made, is some place (Hunts, ST, dungeons, I don't care) needs to up the soldiery. We're getting half as much soldiery as we were getting myth and it's fairly frustrating.

Square can never win

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Originally Posted by Someguy

Is there some sick joke I'm not getting about this?


People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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To each their own, I preferred capping tomes each week doing hunts instead of dungeons, my FC buddy liked to do dungeons instead of hunts. The point is with the small reward that comes along with hunts now there is no alternative for classes that have to sit in a deep dps queue.

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Originally Posted by Someguy

People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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Hunts were wonderfully efficient for capping tomes for the week. I could spend an hour clearing coil for 120 tomes and then knock the rest out in one night at my convenience with hunts.

It's not so bad capping poe tomes at the moment with shiva and 2nd coil farming, but in a few weeks it'll be back to relying on expert roulettes for the majority. Running the same snoozefest easy dungeons with the same recycled formula and piddly rewards as the other 20 dungeons in the game gets old really fast. Unfortunately its what SE has decided to push people towards in this patch.

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Originally Posted by Someguy

Is there some sick joke I'm not getting about this?


People complain running dungeons is boring.

People think staring at a website then killing the same hunt over and over while all you're doing is hitting a hunt with aero and spamming medica 2 is not boring?

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To each their own thing really. And in 2.3 at least there was a form of choice introduced on as to how one could cap out on endgame tokens. Seeing as to how raiding would not fill the token count, we could finally choose between dungeon rushing or zerging hunts. My personal preference went to zerging hunts. First of all for being less dependent on fellow guildies to effectively do dungeon rushes, and second of all for not having to deal with kicking PUGs for repeatedly dying and messing up the dungeon rush.

Hunts in that offered a perfect alternative to capping out. Unfortunately though that's no longer available. So we're back to square one. Hoping guildies can come along, and if not praying for PUGs to have decent player skills so there's no need to wait for another. Combine the latter with SE having introduced some additional form of tactics in these latest dungeons, it's a very frustrating combination when you realize you're only doing this non-raiding content for the faster gain of raiding gear anyway >_>.

Look, i have nothing against hunts. I think it's fun finding one in the open world. unfortunately , I can't form a group with my FC mates and kill the thing. I have to wait for the guy who saw it existed in a linkshell to come and yell random pull times before i can attack it. Then i have to wait for the group thats killing another A rank to come, because obviously theyre entitled to every spawn as well.

I think hunts could be great if they completely randomized the spawn times. You could get the same A rank twice in an hour, or it might not spawn all day. This would eliminate the website watchers and actually force people to find the things.

I am glad I actually have a reason to do dungeons again. I do wish hunts would give a little more soldiery and some nexus light at least. The shouldn't be completely irrelevant. Maybe reduce the cost of sands/oils. Sometimes i would rather do hunts then ST (11 runs/0-fer in sands and oils). I am glad they shifted from hunts, but would like them to still be relevent.

I bet if the rewards using allied seals had a lower cost, we'd have more people farming hunts now.

Hunts were never supposed to replace dungeons when getting tomes. I think SE seen the mistake they made but could not fix it at that point so they fixed it with the introduction of the new tomes and 2.4, I say good!

IMO, it's more on content in 2.3 giving way too much mythology to allow players to gear up, especially with the introduction of hunts (as if it wasn't bad enough that you could exchange 20 allied seals for a myth piece) than current content giving too few soldierly.

I mean if you look at it from certain perspectives
-It takes longer to gear up with weathered equipments because their prices are unchanged. However, back in 2.3 I could gear up my main and alt classes in a matter of 2 days with how saturated mythology tomes were. And even as far as gearing up is concerned, there's no loot lock out in ST now (which drops ilvl100)

Could always do some Frontline, as it gives 50 SoL and 20 ToP and match takes 15mins or so. And if more peoples would do this it should reduce que time alot, while also giving some easy kills :P