What do you benefit from pulling hunt mobs fast?

I mean, wouldn't a little common courtesy be nice? Let EVERYONE have the rewards, hmm?

Disclaimer: I know there is no such thing as "pulling too early," but whenever I find a hunt monster I would never even consider pulling it myself with only my party around the second I find it. It's just plain rude.

And so it begins. People are gonna justify using this clever method of control.

I don't see how it's rude if you play the game how it's intented. Anyways, all this hunt drama is fun to watch from the sidelines.

Well, this time round, they made the daily hunt logs a viable way of obtainging upgrades for gear. So you can do those to gear up in a reasonable time frame without touching any hunt marks in world.

But I do think they should triple the HP of the A and S ranks as they melt crazy fast, even with everyone not yet at 60. Which when the majority get to 60 it will become even worse.

I'm just here because on my mobile the title of this thread showing was "What do you benefit from pulling". 10/10 would click for that title again.

They get the new shinies faster. Seems to be the mentality of a certain segment of every game...me first, to hell with everyone else.

It's the new thing. Once people get what they want or something more appealing is introduced they'll move on and <hopefully> there will be less drama. Look at the ARR zones. I see A ranks sitting around completely ignored while large groups spam nearby fates.

New hunts do melt so fast that if you don't pull before a certain amount of time, you're unlikely to get full credit.

And yeah, I mean, hunts are FCFS, the ingame systems even talk about such. You may disagree, but at the end of the day, that's just how it's set up, and all the noble intentions in the world won't change the actuality of things.

They should tune the 3 daily marks you get, just double them, problem solved.

I used to enjoy doing A/S, but those instanced Zones definitely killed it for me this time aroun.

Another option, and this is just me here... But they should really quit tying everything they release to FATES/Hunts. Be creative, release something new. Watch the new Relic quest be tied to both FATES and hunts.

This is no different from the hunts in previous patches. People always face checking as soon as they spawn. It is something we just have to live with.

I'm frustrated with this too. I may be stuck just doing my daily and weekly again in 3.0 while I'm stuck on ps3. With the shitty load times all I see is a dead corpse at best unless it spawns in the zone I'm in and I get there early. The instanced zones is only going to make this worse cause its extra load screens.

The rush to hunt amuses me because it's going to be those same people complaining how the game is to easy while they use their i170-180 gear to steamroll through everything.

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Originally Posted by nyttyn

New hunts do melt so fast that if you don't pull before a certain amount of time, you're unlikely to get full credit.

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Pretty much this. Once the crowd gets beyond a certain size it's actually impossible to get full credit due to how quickly the target dies. It is actually a big risk to wait too long.

It also doesn't help that some players get a late report in their linkshell and start bitching that the target was pulled early when other people had actually been standing there waiting for five minutes or more. Do not assume that the report in your linkshell was the first report of that hunt target being found!

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Originally Posted by Alberel

It also doesn't help that some players get a late report in their linkshell and start bitching that the target was pulled early when other people had actually been standing there waiting for five minutes or more. Do not assume that the report in your linkshell was the first report of that hunt target being found!

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That happened to some of my friends last night. They found an A rank and called other people in via TS and our FC linkshell and then stood around waiting for a while to see if other people were going to show up. Sure enough, the hunt train rolled in, and someone pulled it almost right away. On the outside, it looked like an early pull, but in fact my friends had been standing there waiting for a few minutes already. They could've gone ahead and pulled it themselves if they'd wanted.

If people did them with healers and tanks wont melt so fast but people like to do big damage all the time for some reason. Many times had seen healers in cleric stance dpsing and tanks on dps stance doing even more dps.

This is a design flaw. Gating upgrades behind one open-world mob is stupid.

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Originally Posted by Able

This is a design flaw. Gating upgrades behind one open-world mob is stupid.

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They aren't gated behind "one open world mob". Daily and weekly hunts are a perfectly viable way to upgrade. You also get a decent amount of seals from the old hunt marks, which as previously mentioned will frequently sit in the open world.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

They aren't gated behind "one open world mob". Daily and weekly hunts are a perfectly viable way to upgrade. You also get a decent amount of seals from the old hunt marks, which as previously mentioned will frequently sit in the open world.

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Tell that to the masses zerging A-ranks in both the new and old zones and ignoring their daily marks. Seals need to be rewarded for something other than just hunts. Not really sure why you think A-ranks in the old zones are being ignored. You should see how often their linked - and the mere milliseconds it takes for them to die.

I rather this than the few FC's runnign around trying to find hunts and snipe them before anyone else can get there. They are actually going out of their way to make sure no one else but them get the hunts. Even going as far as to report players that follow them to the hunts they are trying to hide.

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Originally Posted by Able

Tell that to the masses zerging A-ranks in both the new and old zones and ignoring their daily marks. Seals need to be rewarded for something other than just hunts. Not really sure why you think A-ranks in the old zones are being ignored. You should see how often their linked - and the mere milliseconds it takes for them to die.

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Just because some people are doing it that way doesn't mean it's the only way. The long and short of it is: if you don't like it, don't do it. It's slower to upgrade via dailies but it can be done since they actually give a reasonable amount - 100+ per day, then the weekly. I don't sit and hunt all day because I find the zerg pretty frustrating. If I trip over an A rank, I'll shout out to a hunt linkshell once I've made sure my raid static and friends are there. I'll go to hunts that happen to be in the area I'm in, or if I'm not doing anything in particular at the time. When hunts are in instanced areas, I try to teleport there once; if I get the wrong instance I shrug and go about my business and just wait for the next hunt mob to pop.

So far I'm i176 PLD doing it that way, so it seems to be working just fine.