Treasure Hunting is Broken

[aray0002]

Only the peisteskin maps are required to have a FULL PARTY of 8 to open the coffer.
You can not start the fight with anything less than 8.
That in mind.. Chocobo's count as members so a min. of 4 actual players are required.

Any other map : leather , toad and boarskin are all solo maps. you can decipher and dig these by yourself.

So back to the peisteskin map: So the lot of you that comment on this thread... would agree.. you join the hunt offer nothing in return other than your time and deserve to get the /rare loot? I understand that gil and other items get split among everybody.

but the /rare loot > Blue Bird minion that sells for 500,000 should be just randomly given away ? I took the time to level a Gathering class to 50 and then farmed away at level 50 nodes for sometimes 30 min or longer to get the peisteskin map to pop. Yet it's ok to lose this /rare drop to someone because they are a place holder ? Whatever..

[Lemon8or]

Only the peisteskin maps are required to have a FULL PARTY of 8 to open the coffer.
You can not start the fight with anything less than 8.

Oh yes I have multiple times: 3 people, 4 people, 5 people, 7 people.... I could open the treasure chest at any number of people. It's SUGGESTED that you bring 8 but you don't have to. The loot should be according to agreement before joining the group. Sometimes, it goes to whoever pops that map. Sometimes, it's free for all.

[aray0002]

Sometimes, it goes to whoever pops that map. Sometimes, it's free for all.

Your statement is false nothing you say is true. The loot does not fall to the map holder and it's not random it gets placed in a que and is rolled just like in a dungeon. The very fact you say these things makes me think you never had a map drop loot. You realize that the loot is separate from the treasure items ?
That's right.. 150 shards goes to player A. 2 spruce logs got to player B. 1 trileon bulb goes to player C 1500 gil goes to player D ect ect.
This is the treasure that is guaranteed to fall randomly. The LOOT in which you roll on, happens a very small % of the time. These are the items i call /rare loot because it's the very reason these TREASURE HUNTS exist. to collect the very hard to find items. Such as the Blue Bird Minion. > my argument is this should always fall to the MAP holder not the rest of the group.

[Lemon8or]

Your statement is false nothing you say is true.

You took my phrase out of context. What I meant is that it depends on the agreement between the players so sometimes, the players agree that the need/greed loot belongs to the one that opens the map, sometimes, anyone can roll on it. Did you even read? The loot you're talking about is indeed random. What I'm talking about is the thing coming out of the chest that is available for need/greed. If you don't like it, don't do treasure hunt with people you don't trust to uphold their end of the bargain.

[HEC]

Only the peisteskin maps are required to have a FULL PARTY of 8 to open the coffer.
You can not start the fight with anything less than 8.

False - you can open any map including Pieste with any amount of people, even one if you "crazy" / brave enough.

I took the time to level a Gathering class to 50 and then farmed away at level 50 nodes for sometimes 30 min or longer to get the peisteskin map to pop.

Well it's your problem then, I always get map within 2 - 5 minutes tops.

[ArkhamNative]

False - you can open any map including Pieste with any amount of people, even one if you "crazy" / brave enough.
Well it's your problem then, I always get map within 2 - 5 minutes tops.

1. We did peisteskin maps one day and they were winnable with 3 + 3 chocobos + a summons. Then we tried some another day and were fighting chimera with adds in a busy castrum. Our 3+3+1 were overwhelmed. The map fight difficulty is highly variable.

2. I usually do, too, but today there were 3-4 other botanists in the same area and it took around 15 minutes to see my first map. That was a boarskin. I'm OK with soloing (me + chocobo) boarskins, so I took it. If I had wanted a peisteskin, I might have been there another 15 minutes. (Actually, it popped right after the top of the hour... so maybe it was limited by one of those infamous "drop rate throttles" SE seems to use in its MMOs. Hmm...)