Who is gonna raid now with the iLvl 110 gear handed to people??

[Zantetsuken]

Who cares? Anything dropped from Second Coil of Bahamut will be acquired more easily once patch 2.4 comes out and on top of that all of coil's gear will be outdated when the first expansion comes out.

I'm more concerned with how Yoshi's direction with the game is making everything increasingly drawn out and less satisfying as a whole. Its almost one step forward and two steps back with each patch.

↑↑↑ This guy gets it.

In my opinion, the system itself is not that bad. I like open world content and I was one of the players that asked for a "mark system" similar than the FFXII mark system. The obvious problem I see here is the rewards associated with it. I'm a raid player, I love end-game content and that's why I'm paying for this game. I also love hunting, having 4 dedicated LS about that and tracking these marks down is somewhat enjoyable. But I came to the realization that this IS mindless and the rewards are WAAAAY to big...

People are forgetting is that by the time 2.4 is released, many players will have moved on from the Hunts as they will have new iLvl content to zerg. When 2.5 (or expansion) is out, Hunts will be effectively dead content unless SE injects some sort of artificial life extension into them (ie, makes them essential in a future step for Zodiac weapons).