The Hunts Fantasy 14

[Synestra]

One thing that baffles me on these Hunt threads lately is that why everyone assume only non-raiders do these things? and why would one stop raiding when you can get ilvl110 stuff from these? Why would anyone grind these things in firstplace if you dont use them for raiding? afterall loot is just tool for progression.

[Gamex]

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'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.

Hit the nail right on the head with that. w

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

People are tired of the old method of ranking up.

Again, welcome back to FATE grinding, just without the level sync and full access to everything you need to progress. Hunts might as well drop Atma and Wolf Marks too.

Guess I'll cap everything, stock up on the handouts and level my crafts til this gets old. Again. No point in challenging anything, let alone myself if the game basically says I don't have to.

[Chrisbox]

Again, welcome back to FATE grinding, just without the level sync and full access to everything you need to progress. Hunts might as well drop Atma and Wolf Marks too.

Guess I'll cap everything, stock up on the handouts and level my crafts til this gets old. Again. No point in challenging anything, let alone myself if the game basically says I don't have to.

Yea because that will totally be the case in two-three months when 2.4 drops right? The game also isn't saying you don't have to right now, its saying hey this is an odd number catch up patch like 2.1 if you were unsubbed, behind on progression, or are just awful you now have the option to grind your braincells out for some 110 armor, if you want BiS you still need coil, if you want challenge you still have savage coil, if you want to wait until 2.4 you can. Overall I don't think you thought this one out.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I did. Just forgot the [/SARCASM] tag.

I chose the Coil route and I enjoy it profusely. I only bother with hunts if I just so happen to be in the area when it pops/when it's announced in one of my linkshells. Beyond that, I'm not going to drop what I'm doing to do what I've been NOT wanting to do all along. I'm just not interested. I'm well aware of how much of a fast track they are to what we all want, but I personally won't ignore other preferred content in favor of it.

That's just me though.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I'm pretty sure the hunts was Square's way of giving people more options to obtain late game gear, just like they did with the addition of Oils and Sands of Time to the Sycrus Tower. Course, they didn't think things through with the way you get rewards in the hunts...

[Sassi666]

Agree with the above, and adding an alternative method is fine except the rewards are insane. I assumed that when the hunts came out, you'd get your elite mark off the board, you'd hunt it, kill it get the reward and that would be it for the week, not that you could hunt any elite rank mob and get seals, tomes etc. It's crazy and is killing other aspects of the game. There should have been a weekly cap on seals or sands and oils at the very least. Ah well I'm actually quite enjoying my craft/gathering levelling while this insanity is going on.

[Synestr]

I am more on a progression route as well. I sadly don't have the time I would like to play, but when I get on I work hard on getting my jobs geared up and through things. Coil is something that for a player like me is tough, only because I don't have a static due to my inconsistency of allotted playtime. Hunts, they are neat, I have a hunt ls, I see the chatter in there, I only join a hunt group once a week though, and am in it for only a max of two hours. I can only take so much lol. PLD/BLM/DRG are my "Main" jobs, BRD/WHM are my not so important ones, atm. Once they get to i90 I will get back to the lvl grind with ACN and MRD. All at the same time working on getting ST, COIL, CT drops for them when they pop fiddy.

Hunts are cool, not game breaking. Something to do when you need a break from grinding other stuff.

[Rattleh3ad]

Hunts broke this game as of now. There is ZERO purpose to do any other end game content. I hope in 2.4 they can remedy this shituation because now, I have little incentive to do anything else but hunts, and it gets so old so quickly.

SE, please, PLEASE do something about this situation now!

[LegendWait]

We replaced 2 persons because of this.