The Hunts Fantasy 14

[Gamex]

mindless and boring as hell but its a nice way to unlock all the sol gear that would take you weeks to do getting sand from coil

[Kaaylryn]

Personally, I feel that SE underestimated how FEW people were going to get gear upgrades from SCOB. T6 gives no sand or oil, T7 gives oil, T8 and 9 give sand. Ergo, 2 sands per week for a group of 8. So when their next big update with Ilvl increase happens, say 2.4, most people would still be in mostly I100 gear except HA pieces that may drop. They implemented the hunt rewards to compensate for their short sightedness. In actuality, they pretty much caused the mess.

As for nerfing the hunt rewards, that genie is out of the bottle and I don't see how they can put the stopper back in without repercussions. They need to really rethink how gear rewards are given in dungeons, or the game will just turn into a big open world grind patch after patch. And yes, I do hunts a couple hours a day, Monday thru Thursday. The Horde can rule the weekends, and they usually do.

[paradigmfellow]

You need a lot of myth? Do the Hunts.
You need to cap your sold? Do the Hunts.
You need to upgrade your i100 gear? Do the Hunts.

Doing The Hunts COVERS pretty much every thing we desire to obtain in this game.

So, is there any good point doing anything else rather than The Hunts?

I am quitting the game because it has now become a grindfest, and no one else does anything outside of hunts. With the exception being weekly coils.

[Pots_Talos]

200 lockout for allied seals a week, fixed.
Guess it's too late for that now.

[AktaionQ]

I thought id do some hunting yesterday. I usually hate it and get unnecessarily angry with it, but yesterday was different. I ended up not wanting to stop at all and only did when i realized i had farmed 786 seals lol. It took about 7 hours of my day. No logs dropped from A or S ranks for me though. I do still think that sand and oil should be locked to one per week from hunts though.

[Synestr]

I found a hunt party yesterday and decided I would try it out.

Pretty nice. Only one big one popped for the 50 seals but we farmed the crap outta B's and A's.

I am 98 seals away from my second book now for a sand.

This is the thing to do now when ST is locked and coil is done. Maybe some grinding for other jobs when I get bored or hunts slow down for the night.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Welcome back to FATE grinding.


I'd rather do everything else than the hunts.

EDIT: No really, I'd rather do everything else than the hunts. I don't like FATEs. I never did. In fact, where they aren't forced upon me, I avoid them. I like the dungeons. I like the gear (that is, when it used to give gear and not just placeholder crafting mats like now). Add to that, I just don't really like being a part of the "trend". It's not a matter of exclusivity, no. It's a matter of finding personal enjoyment over a homogenized, "everyone can do it" style of gameplay.

I did the Atma thing, and I regret every minute wasted on it. And all for a recolored weapon.
I trashed my first Animus book when I realized the larger majority of book content would NOT help me get the tomes needed to turn around and get the next book. . . No thanks.
While you were all doing the books, I was learning Coil down to the letter.
While you were speed running Brayflox for tomes, I went back to learning how to tank well. AND finally became a Dragoon too. I love it. . . And I still capped.
While you were running your Alexadrite maps/Expert Roulettes/FATEs for Alexandrite, or spiritbonding for materia, I FINALLY beat Turn 5 with a great new static. We can't wait to challenge Second Coil.

And now it's come full circle to FATE grinding again, minus the actual FATE system. SE, PLEASE stop force-feeding the FATE-style of gameplay on us. We did it before because dungeons were lackluster and long. Not only did you fix that, but Hullbreaker, Stone Vigil HM, and Tam-Tara HM are great new steps in the right direction! (Interesting mechanics, pacing/mechanics that discourage just speedrunning through it, not too long/short. . . you're doing it right). Yes, open world content is nice, and the idea of hunts was an interesting one, but not only have you upset the delicate balance you were starting to achieve, you've reintroduced FATE grinding and camping back into your game. And this time with great rewards. . . NO.

I'm not saying nerf the rewards, nor am I saying get rid of it. But you've effectively swept the rug out from under the players who've aspired to challenge your highest end-game content, in favor of quick easy access to comparable, if not slightly lesser gear. And the answer won't be found in increasing roulettes, offering mounts/minions, or other transient rewards this time. No, now you don't HAVE to be good to get good gear. You just have to hurry up and wait. . . Why buy the cow if you can just get the milk easier?

I want the cow. I've wanted it for so long, so badly that I did what I had to to get good enough for it. Don't you dare start giving out milk now.

[Gamex]

I'd rather do everything else than the hunts.

I did everything you did and more and still farmed 10 sand.

[scarletfoxxy]

Again with this lame threads about someone complaining their toy isn't exclusive anymore. Did my logic in other threads NOT shut you down? Why does a new random feel the need to start YET ANOTHER "moan about hunts" thread. At what point in time do mods close topics and ban people? Why does the forums have to be constantly flooded with the SAME DAMN TOPIC? How about this? No one talks about how awful atma's are any more on the forums. No one talks about other stuff (notice how untrue this is) They just talk about hunts. Maybe they should nerf the people complaining??? Seriously, shut the hell up! What about people who don't want to grind dungeons anymore? What's wrong with a couple of months of SOMETHING NEW: hunts! People are tired of the old method of ranking up. Trust me, when the sands of time is no longer viable and they lock everything behind the third coil of Bahamut, you lames will still find a reason to complain about something.

[KingOfAbyss]

Friend: So, seems you are in FFXIV since a long time now.

Me: Yeah, since the start of it, once it has been remade.


Friend: You've been investing a lot of your time, bet you must be close to the endgame. Think I might be interested to join you?

Me: well all my characters are capped until the expansion, and slowly getting gear to tackle the end-content. And as for your other question, I don't know.


Friend: so what are you doing exactly in that game?

Me: Hunts.


Friend: What about Dungeons? Are they Fun to do?

Me: Hunts.


Friend: I've heard the crafting system ain't that bad. Is it something I should look for?

Me: Hunts.


Friend: err.. well, is there anything else to do besides that? Some people have been speaking of Fates being something to do while waiting for queues to get into Dungeons or PvP..

Me: nah, all this game focus on Hunts. You get pretty much everything from them. All the rest is plain boring now, no one does it, as a Tank I need to wait 30mins to get in dungeons or EX primals, imagine DPS..


Friend: so are Hunts fun to do?

Me: Nope, it's a constant fight against other LS and 8-man parties, I have to switch from Tank to White Mage so I can ensure if lucky to get to that mark, that I will have enough enmity to get the max Allied Seals. Most of the time you're going to have nothing as another group won't wait for you or all the server to come and kill the poor rank B..

And if you manage with your group to get the mark, another party can take it from you, reset it, and sometimes with the amount of people it's going to be very hard to hit the enmity cap, you end up with 1 seal ^^

The community has been upped by rage, threats, reporting not Bots or Gil sellers but other players.

Friend: wow.. I think I'll check another game. Why are you staying?

Me: I am waiting for Ninja for a change, and will wait until Expansion to see how things goes..

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TL;DR: If SE decides to make it so it would be limited to a 24-man, they would have to lower the seal, myth and soldiery amount. No one wants that.

So as a real hunt, the first one should zerg it without waiting, they should block it to the party that has the first hit. You aren't the one? Well, there's plenty others to find around.

Can't wait what they will do with the Elites in the next maintenance.

In any case, people will rage ^^

Happy playing guys err hunting!

Again with this lame threads about someone complaining their toy isn't exclusive anymore. Did my logic in other threads NOT shut you down? Why does a new random feel the need to start YET ANOTHER "moan about hunts" thread. At what point in time do mods close topics and ban people? Why does the forums have to be constantly flooded with the SAME DAMN TOPIC? How about this? No one talks about how awful atma's are any more on the forums. No one talks about other stuff (notice how untrue this is) They just talk about hunts. Maybe they should nerf the people complaining??? Seriously, shut the hell up! What about people who don't want to grind dungeons anymore? What's wrong with a couple of months of SOMETHING NEW: hunts! People are tired of the old method of ranking up. Trust me, when the sands of time is no longer viable and they lock everything behind the third coil of Bahamut, you lames will still find a reason to complain about something.

First it was FATES. Then Atmas. Now the subject until next patch is Hunts.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. Telling people to shut up on a forum, that is pure logic as you mentionned.

People will be discontent with any new features any game will implement, nothing is new here.

But I'm pretty sure you agree these Hunts are wayy too easy and getting all that sand and oil (well I've seen some succubus so I assume they have already maxed their main to iLvl110)

Nice work on your BOW btw.

True, we could try to offer constructive suggestions to it. Do you have any ideas? Except to shut up? You are most welcome to do so. I bet even SE is scratching their heads now.. (another lesson learned for them: don't implement something that was 'improvised' without further testing.)

And yes you are right: once 3rd Coil and stuff will hit, people's focus on Hunts will decrease and the next big thing: Please look forward to it.