The Hunts Fantasy 14

[AlrikRouge]

@Skaterger

I'm really sorry load times/loading sucks. It sucks on my end too. (PS3 - I've only seen two S rank mobs, yet been present for 10-12) And resetting mobs? Yeah, I've had that happen as well.

My number for oil and sand was exaggerated. It actually is a lot. Sadly, I'm not in Coil 2. And while I plan to upgrade my gear to i110, until counter measures are out in, I don't see myself focusing on hunts to progress in game. I myself have enough sol gear to deck out two jobs to full i110, but I actually don't have the patience to do it as the hunts are being done right now. I think I get about 200 seals a week, which give me about 1400 myth or so, which is why I use on alexandrites. I don't have the patience to collect seals for oil/sands. I want my Novus more than i110.

Sorry I hit a sore subject right on the head. Definitely didn't intend to add salt to the wound.

[skaterger]

@Skaterger

I'm really sorry load times/loading sucks. It sucks on my end too. (PS3 - I've only seen two S rank mobs, yet been present for 10-12) And resetting mobs? Yeah, I've had that happen as well.

My number for oil and sand was exaggerated. It actually is a lot. Sadly, I'm not in Coil 2. And while I plan to upgrade my gear to i110, until counter measures are out in, I don't see myself focusing on hunts to progress in game. I myself have enough sol gear to deck out two jobs to full i110, but I actually don't have the patience to do it as the hunts are being done right now. I think I get about 200 seals a week, which give me about 1400 myth or so, which is why I use on alexandrites. I don't have the patience to collect seals for oil/sands. I want my Novus more than i110.

Sorry I hit a sore subject right on the head. Definitely didn't intend to add salt to the wound.

Nah no worries, my anger was mainly channeled at those who seem to think that hunts are somehow a challenging task. They claim that it takes skill and teamwork and its difficulty matches or surpasses coil. I mean come on, SE is throwing you a bone here, milk it for all you want, but don't come here to justify something that it is not and add salt to the wound. I even seen one guy claim that High Allagan gear in coil is a handout. /rolleyes

For the record I play on a high end pc and even though my fps never drops below 60, I still get the same rendering issue as PS3 users, of course without the load times. Its more of the game issue and less of a hardware issue I think.

You can get seals really easily if you join an active hunt linkshell. I'm not sure on your server but for mine, they are mostly full. We keep spreadsheets which record TOD and have our member actively comb the map when the mob is due to spawn. I am lucky enough to be in 3 of them and I can get 1 or 2 sands a day if I really want to. but I don't because I find the activity in itself menial and brainless. I might hunt for a couple of hours at a time, but that's the limit of what I can take.

Good luck hunting.

[AlrikRouge]

Good call on the TOD spreadsheet. And yeah, wish I had more time to hunt, but even then I don't think I could stand it for longer than a couple hours at most.

Good luck to you as well.

[Sassi666]

And welcome back duty finder queues for new players. There is no reason now for lol 50s to do roulette. My friend who has a new character waited over an hour for titan story mode yesterday and if I do daily roulette it can take as long now whereas even with a ranged dps at the same time of day I could get in in 15 mins max before. I can live without roulette, I'm actually leveling crafting at the mo but it's tough on new players again looking to play story dungeons.

[Machetazzo]

I don't think it is a bad idea to expand the possibilities of activities outside dungeon content, although the reward is a bit too high for hunts. I understand ilvl90 set pieces or myth for novus are totally cool, but giving an access to what was previously exclusive in 2nd coil is a weird call for my liking.

Now I understand that company needs to keep people interested in game and 2nd coil is not the content done by majority of players, while they care about subscription numbers. However, the other point here is that we are missing a motivation now to do challenging (in terms of challenges in FFXIV) content, because we can obtain not the same, but same ilvl gear (stats might not be BiS for all parts, but still) via mindless camping on maps and just reading LS.

I personally enjoy very much dungeons in FFXIV and it is the best content for me. It is right now little bit disappointing that you log in and want to do some dungeon (make it HM/EXP roulette, EX trial or coil) and you dont get enough people because everybody is hunting and will get better stuff than you in any skill required content other than "Tag that badass".

I guess soon we will get a new content which will provide better items than 2nd coil, so this could be preparation stage for players so they can compete, just if the reward was bit smaller or took like a week for Sand/Oil, not one/two days like my FC mates get who have enough patience, time and will to hunt it much...

[Chrisbox]

I made a thread about this. I don't think hunts are the problem, I think its just that dungeons have yet to find a real place in ffxiv. The rewards have always been lackluster since launch and its a shame since they're so well made.

[AktaionQ]

I made a thread about this. I don't think hunts are the problem, I think its just that dungeons have yet to find a real place in ffxiv. The rewards have always been lackluster since launch and its a shame since they're so well made.

Dungeons have always had a place, we have needed to grind them from day one until Hunts ; ; They need to cap the Sand / Oil to maybe one a week then your locked out, like ST is now and CT was

[Chrisbox]

Dungeons have always had a place, we have needed to grind them from day one until Hunts ; ; They need to cap the Sand / Oil to maybe one a week then your locked out, like ST is now and CT was

Right, dungeons were a grinding resource and now so are hunts. The thing is dungeons weren't intentionally a grinding resource, and they don't encourage speedrunning. Dungeons gear isn't even worth mentioning nobody uses it unless you're leveling up, I think they should re-evaluate where dungeons fit into the game.

[Moonwolfthegrey]

So I get called to an elite mob who just spawned, I group up with tens of players all standing beside it waiting a bit so most ppl have gathered before the pull( very thoughtfull I must say). Someone pulls the mob, flashes of light, mob is dead. All this before I even unsheathe my axe and land a single blow, not a single bit of reward.
I'm sorry this system is broken...
I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be like this

[Synestra]

Dungeons gear isn't even worth mentioning nobody uses it unless you're leveling up

Actually those new ilvl80 dungeon items do have some use now, some of them have BiS PVP stats compared to ilvl90, 100 and 110 gears due amount of offensive stats instead accuracy/parry. Tho some of best PVP items coming from dungeons feels kinda akward.