Solo players can't get proper credit for hunts

[Vahlnir]

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I fully support open world group content, but from earlier previews and it's initial launch, I think they intended it to work similar to the Fate system, where everyone could jump in and reap the rewards. A and S rank marks were meant for more than one or 2 people, though. With whole servers doing this that logic kinda went out the window for the time being, so SE has been forced to improvise by making groups all but required. Players who are in queue for dungeons/raids/Frontlines, etc. have been forced to choose, which is where things went wrong, as it was not meant to be this way originally. It's not that people don't want to group up and hunt, there's just so many people doing it at the moment and there's a lot of other content for them to complete. The Hunt was meant to be a side activity, not a full blown server event. The rewards are ridiculously high though, in my opinion, hence the mass numbers of players. If they would up the daily mark rewards I'm sure at least some of the complaints would die down.

[DawnCharis]

They need to make hunt mob's HP scale with the amount of people in a zone

Just throw a buff on them when a certain number of people zone in ex. 100 people zone in Hp stack 1, 200 people zone in Hp stack 2, etc

[JustPlainLucas]

At first, I used to think that it was common courtesy to shout out coordinates, but the more and more I think about "full credit", the more I'm leaning towards just attacking it right away. You risk losing out on your part of your reward when you were the first to find it, but another group came along and pulled it before you.

Free for all.

[Edeline]

How about making something like Sync system on fates. When you enter the area of the mark boss, you get a button you have to press to join the fight or you can't attack the mark, and have a limit on how many can join, but making them spawning more often so more people can take part of this game feature.

[Nel_Celestine]

At first, I used to think that it was common courtesy to shout out coordinates, but the more and more I think about "full credit", the more I'm leaning towards just attacking it right away. You risk losing out on your part of your reward when you were the first to find it, but another group came along and pulled it before you.

Free for all.

Problem with that is someone will rush in, provoke it off you, leash it and then reclaim it. You'll get zero credit and treated to a slur of insults in tells, shouts and into several linkshell groups.

[Lionhand]

I use my SMN for hunting and got no problem doing solo B hunts. But when i see an A/S mark, all I do is shout and sure enough a mob comes quickly. I tried several times both in a party and doing solo. So far i still get full credit even outside any party. All you need is be there when it starts and throw enough DoTs. At times when I arrive halfway to a marks HP, maybe because of the HP buff, two sets of DoTs rotations plus titans spells is enough. I dont know with other jobs but this works for me.

[16bitBounty]

Honestly I can't believe people are still posting about hunts. Just don't do them, I figured this out day 1. They're too much trouble for the reward.

[Blackweaver]

This thread is a pretty good example why I'm not even going to bother with hunts for a while until they either raise the rewards per hunt, especially normal mark bills, or lower the cost of the i70 gc gear. Too much toxicity in the community. Hell as I said, the other day standing right in the middle of a party looking at the A rank, asked for invite, said I was a healer. Completely ignored, and they pulled. Unless you are part of their elite circle, you are screwed. Too much toxicity, not enough reward to warrant doing them.

[Taaku]

Problem with that is someone will rush in, provoke it off you, leash it and then reclaim it. You'll get zero credit and treated to a slur of insults in tells, shouts and into several linkshell groups.

Provoke doesent work on any of the marks.

so the best they can do is hope there better geared than whoever you have tanking/have crazy dps to try and rip it off your tank. the other stuff is probably true though :/

[Mardel]

Problem with that is someone will rush in, provoke it off you, leash it and then reclaim it. You'll get zero credit and treated to a slur of insults in tells, shouts and into several linkshell groups.

Provoke doesn't work on hunt monsters.