Hunts were a terrible/irresponsible idea

[AlyssaFhey]

Everyone is complicating this too much, you see the monster, you attack it, you kill it, and if you can do so it's because: 1 you're lucky, or 2 you have been working for it, this is not a fate, not a dungeon, nor odin or behe, if you want to hunt with ppl go ahead, what you can't do is telling a whole LS about the monster and hold it and restart it so "everyone" can get credit.

The next time you see one of them attack it, if any other hunter is looking for it you'll have his/her help, but if you tell others via ls, joe A, crafter B, afker C and gatherer D will get there with a bunch of players to ruin the hunt and get credit w/o deserving it.

This is the problem though. THERE IS NO WAY to figure out how to find an elite mark. No hints or anything are given. I thought this was a hunt? People TRACK when they hunt last I checked not wonder around aimlessly. It's a stupid idea right now, that's a fact. They NEED to fix this, because as it stands, this is a TERRIBLE mechanic at best. Definitely lost a lot of goodwill these past few days.

[Taggerung5]

The biggest positive change that NOBODY would argue with, is giving ALL ranks of mobs MORE HP. Period.
x20 the HP on B ranks.
x15 the HP on A ranks.
x10 the HP on S ranks.
Seriously.
That alone will eliminate 90% of the bitching this thread has caused, and many people will no longer rage quit when they can't get credit on a mob they've been camping for 12 hours, because it dies before they get there.

[lBurnquist]

This is the problem though. THERE IS NO WAY to figure out how to find an elite mark.

There is, and since this method is out there I'm not doing hunts until SE do something about it. People are using NMs Tracker! have a lot of sources that are using it until debs do something about it. I saw a B rank mob spawn in aleport 1 min later no one around a massive crowd of ppl was there.

[Evenstar]

The biggest positive change that NOBODY would argue with, is giving ALL ranks of mobs MORE HP. Period.
x20 the HP on B ranks.
x15 the HP on A ranks.
x10 the HP on S ranks.
Seriously.
That alone will eliminate 90% of the bitching this thread has caused, and many people will no longer rage quit when they can't get credit on a mob they've been camping for 12 hours, because it dies before they get there.

Would be a good solution. Then when SE sees the interest is declining they can slowly reduce the HP back to normal. Everyone can keep hunting and not that much changes

[Ronyx]

Hunts are by far the biggest dissappointment in this patch. They should had made hunts just dailies instead of infinite grinding. Get a paper at the Grand Company once a day, use it and look for your mark in the zone, but it should work like a guildleve that only your party should be able to attack it and claim it. Since it will be just once a day and 1 per week, then the number of Allied Seals should be increased.

[Amaranths]

I really think they need a overhaul the hunts they need to make it you need to trade items to the ??? In the zone to spawn the monster then who ever is in the group that pop the monster is locked in to fight everyone else is locked out. But may have to scale down the S ranks to be killed by 24 people but hard to kill tho not just tank and spank bullshit we have Maybe having the dally hunts drop pop items for B. Then kill a B rank and so on till you can pop a S rank. May need to beef up the rewards as well. I liked the way Sky was in FFXI that was fun they could of made the hunts like that

[hyperhelios]

I really think they need a overhaul the hunts they need to make it you need to trade items to the ??? In the zone to spawn the monster then who ever is in the group that pop the monster is locked in to fight everyone else is locked out. But may have to scale down the S ranks to be killed by 24 people but hard to kill tho not just tank and spank bullshit we have Maybe having the dally hunts drop pop items for B. Then kill a B rank and so on till you can pop a S rank. May need to beef up the rewards as well. I liked the way Sky was in FFXI that was fun they could of made the hunts like that

The old ZNM method from XI was like that too not just sky and sea. I'd say they should make it more like ZNMs though instead of wandering around to farm a group of mobs for pop items; although without obviously having to take stupid pictures. It was a decent event and even top HNM LS would do them while the drops were good.

[solairef]

They should either put a limit on how many sand/oil you can exchange per week(please, no more than 1 per week),
OR take the sand and oil out of the list,
OR remove weekly limitation on the SCOB(not possible!),
OR drop more gears in SCOB(Sav.) and count SCOB and SCOB(Sav.) seperately instead of sharing weekly limit now.

They made a bad decision on putting out sand and oil this early, if they put them out on patch 2.4 when the SCOB's weekly limitation is removed,
then we will not have this much complaints, right now it is a slap on the face for the ones who have regular jobs.

And this might solve the problem?

[Kisshu]

As seen in the recent post 2.3 interview, Elites are the normal way to earn allied marks and the daily a bonus. If they removed the daily limitation and instead allowed you to get a new set of bills right after you've completed the current one you had two different ways to farm allied marks 1normal marks taking around 30 mins with fate wait time for 7 allied marks) 2elites that also drop myth/sol tomes)
If they fear that players would get sand/oil(most wanted items along with alexandrites) they could make each item a weekly lockout so you could only get one of each each week.

[Dashuto]

Am in three hunt LS's and even when they notify each other, someone else inevitably arrives and kills mob before anyone in either of the three LS can arrive to get a score too. I personally have not seen nor killed anything since launch, and have actually went searching a bunch during Aussie prime time (NA's asleep).

This really is an awful system...