Hunts were a terrible/irresponsible idea

[Airget]

This thought did cross my mind just now, carcasses. It would be neat if maybe when a hunted mob died, a 1-2 min window opened to touch the sparkling spot where it died, this would grant the chance to obtain bait to use against instance hunts in the same area but unlike treasure maps and such, the bait would have a one use in x location variable so trying to figure out where to use the bait would be important.

This way though even those who miss hunts could at least have a chance to obtain a piece of the carcass and use it as bait to spawn a rare hunt.

Maybe something like B rank you need to obtain 4 carcass and then mend them together to make the bait, A rank would mend together 2 and S rank would just need 1 carcass but the drop rate would be low.

B rank carcass hunts would have A rank difficulty, A Rank S rank difficulty and S rank would have let's say an open world hard mode/extreme mode primal difficulty attached to it.

The little depth added would encourage hunters to go after 1/51 mobs,figuring out which carcass they want to spawn which mob, in a way it would be an additional 51 mobs added to the roster, each with a unique drop to be obtained them them and it would definitely add more flavor then what's seen now. Granted I guess thinking more into it this would be a 2.4 release idea to hunting to flesh it out more lol.

[Pylfer]

The progression of the hunt system has been pretty drastic in my opinion. Yesterday I was singing its praises and saying how wonderful the system was with a party and a linkshell... However, that opinion has changed.

As the week went on and more people became aware of the hunt system and the rewards and what not the came along, a lot of things on my server came grinding to a halt. The demand for hunt parties is astronomical and number of people doing anything OTHER than their daily Alexandrite map for dungeons is extremely low.

On top of that I have seen more and more people simply pull hunts (B, A, and S rank) within seconds of finding it. For example. A party of 8 people were hanging around N.Than and spawned the worm. They called out in an LS and immediately pulled (before most people could even teleport to Bluefog) and while most people were running into the fight, the S rank had already been burned to 40%.

On top of that, we are seeing more and more people show up for A rank hunts as well. The last one on my server had so many people that even my PS4 could not keep the monster loaded at all times. I know the PS4 is capable of at least 100 people at any given time, so I can only assume there are around 100+ for an A rank.

I don't think this was the way hunts were intended to be done.

Regardless, in 2-4 weeks when the hunt hype dies down, we might be able to have a bit more peaceful experience, lol.

[Giantbane]

Groups like this are also the ones that provoke and reset so their group can get more credit, even if you aren't the douchebag resetting it, being in the group and benefiting from it makes the whole group douchebags.

That is absolutely harassment/cheating and should be reported immediately. Encourage others effected by this to do the same.

[Morningstar1337]

Groups like this are also the ones that provoke and reset so their group can get more credit, even if you aren't the douchebag resetting it, being in the group and benefiting from it makes the whole group douchebags.

They could just have the mark switch aggro to another player if it's to far from its spawn point.

[Ecks007]

It's pretty frustrating to find that NM and watch with horror as rather than your guildmates arriving dozens of people from a link shell probably using a radar app flood in to reduce your contribution to nil.

Either you don't care/know about reducing people's contribution or you're a class that can get high contribution regardless of how many people are nuking it, either way you're still being ignorant of the fact that this content is meant to be competitive, it's not a FATE and people need to stop treating it like that. I understand why people do but still, it's irritating to see people flood in to reduce my contribution and treat ME like the bad guy for wanting to get more than 2 seals.

To me it seems like you basically said the same thing I did in different words.

And from experience in killing several of these Rank B and A's so far I can tell you that with the rank A's (and likely S rank as well) if you are not in a party to kill these you will not gain the full benefit.
I've been in parties to kill rank A mobs to receive 80 Myth and 20 seals. I fought a Rank A solo this morning while other parties also killed it and only received 1 seal and 3 myth, for the same amount of time I have fought a rank A while in a party.

[Morningstar1337]

Am I missing something or are the rewards for Allied Seals pretty lame? If i remember correctly it's just myth gear isn't it? I haven't bothered even trying the hunt yet so i'm probably wrong but it doesn't seem worth all the hassle.

The allied rewards are:

• Minions (Including the Succubus)
• An item that can be exchanged for Sands and Oil of Time
• Alexandrite

The first point is Vanity but the second point is why most people would want to farm hunts as it allows or speeds up the process of upgrading raid gear and relics.

[Worm]

And from experience in killing several of these Rank B and A's so far I can tell you that with the rank A's (and likely S rank as well) if you are not in a party to kill these you will not gain the full benefit.

Let me get this right. Are you suggesting that just the act of being in a party alone is increasing your contribution and amount of seals? That's even more reason to take them on yourself, since if you wait for extra parties possibly with more heavy hitters than you, you're just going to lose contribution.

I did a B solo and a B in a party and each time I got 5 seals, because I wasn't fighting 80 people.

[Oduis]

Most ppl that you doing this and are getting most thre claims on any given server want something that they can be competitive about, i for one enjoy the hunt and dont have any problems getting credit, as long as im not soloing. Rank B's die so fast bc its ment to be soloable, rank A is for a pty of four or more not 5k ppl, and i dont have to comment on the rank S. Truth be told stop hating bc ppl are being smart and doing it as a fc/ls and spreading out.

[HakuroDK]

Honestly? My only gripes about Hunts are how, despite being very much like Odin/Behemoth, the HP of these enemies is extremely low by comparison. It might be best to increase the HP of these enemies by 10 or even 20-fold, and/or find some way for enough people in an area to get credit for a kill.

[Giantbane]

Let me get this right. Are you suggesting that just the act of being in a party alone is increasing your contribution and amount of seals? That's even more reason to take them on yourself, since if you wait for extra parties possibly with more heavy hitters than you, you're just going to lose contribution.

I did a B solo and a B in a party and each time I got 5 seals, because I wasn't fighting 80 people.

Your contribution is based on damage/threat/healing/whatever done to the monster. When you're in a group, you get the entire group's contribution added to your own. So every member of an 8 person group gets a much higher contribution than a solo player would. It's why everybody in an 8 person group can hit a rank B 2-3 times and they all get full credit, but a solo player would probably only get 1-3 seals.