July 15th Hotfix Notes - "S rank elite marks will have top display priority."

[Zephyranthes]

The lack of official reply with regards to this issue is disturbing.

[Luvbunny]

The lack of official reply with regards to this issue is disturbing.

Indeed, as much as I love the reward from the Hunt, which is totally beyond GREAT... these hunts really kills the game, it renders pretty much ALL other contents obsolete and a big waste of time compared to doing the Hunt. Almost a month and still no official reply other than band aid. Just make rewards from dungeon and duty finder far far more appealing and lower the amount of rewards from Hunt. That will cut down the amount of people doing it and make the Hunt as casual activities you do on the side. Right now it is THE MUST DO priority....

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Indeed, as much as I love the reward from the Hunt, which is totally beyond GREAT... these hunts really kills the game, it renders pretty much ALL other contents obsolete and a big waste of time compared to doing the Hunt. Almost a month and still no official reply other than band aid. Just make rewards from dungeon and duty finder far far more appealing and lower the amount of rewards from Hunt. That will cut down the amount of people doing it and make the Hunt as casual activities you do on the side. Right now it is THE MUST DO priority....

A month? It's been barely 3 weeks.

[Deviant1]

Indeed, as much as I love the reward from the Hunt, which is totally beyond GREAT... these hunts really kills the game, it renders pretty much ALL other contents obsolete and a big waste of time compared to doing the Hunt. Almost a month and still no official reply other than band aid. Just make rewards from dungeon and duty finder far far more appealing and lower the amount of rewards from Hunt. That will cut down the amount of people doing it and make the Hunt as casual activities you do on the side. Right now it is THE MUST DO priority....

So your advice is to take something that hundreds of players want to do, evidenced in so many they disappear, and remove the reason they want to do the event.

Ever wonder if it is not hunts that kill the rest of the game as much as the rest of the game sucks?

[Brine_Gildchaff]

Ever wonder if it is not hunts that kill the rest of the game as much as the rest of the game sucks?

Since the rest of the game -doesn't- suck, no, I don't. The reason hundreds of players want to do this is because it's the only source of Sands of Time outside of Second Coil, which >90% of the playerbase cannot even set foot into at present.

[Nekodar]

There wouldn't be problems with hunts if people could learn to pace themselves instead of trying to get everything in shortest time possible at the cost of burning out, lack of enjoyment, etc.
From 2.3 day we have at least 3 months before next patch... That's plenty of time to obtain sands and oils and there's likely going to be more ways of obtaining them before 2.4 hits.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

There wouldn't be problems with hunts if people could learn to pace themselves instead of trying to get everything in shortest time possible at the cost of burning out, lack of enjoyment, etc.

I can't really argue with that. I can attest from personal experience that hunting without the zergfest running around (i.e. go on off-peak hours, be in a party of active searchers, optionally have one or more members hooked into an LS of people who are also actively searching) that when the hunt mobs live more than ten seconds they're a fun little challenge (B less so, admittedly). Ghede Ti in particular hits like a Mack truck made out of atom bombs, and the other day I discovered to my surprise and rather lethal detriment that Marraco not only has both of Chudo-Yudo's attacks, but when he uses The Lion's Breath he'll often spin around and point it at whoever he feels like! It really does feel like the Hunt system on its own is not particularly bad, but only becomes a painful experience when 90% of the server are trying all at once to get the too-easily-obtained shinies.