Why are elite hunts so valuable? What are the devs thoughts?

[ChiefCurrahee]

The Hunts are a combination of several requests made by players. They aren't broken & I'd say are working as intended. We ask for it, we got it, & they are awesome.

How are they not broken when they aren't balanced with the rest of the content?

A full hard mode dungeon clear gets you 50 myth and 45 soldiery.

Or

you can hunt and get:
B Rank: 5 Allied Seals, 30 Myth and 10 Soldiery.
A Rank 20 Seals, 80 Myth and 20 Soldiery.
S Rank 50 seals, 200 Myth, 40 Soldiery.

In the time it takes to run one dungeon you can get multiple B/A rank kills for far greater rewards. Not only that but you're also collecting allied seals on top of it. There is no content equivalent to hunts which make them devalue the rest of the game.

To balance Hunts with the rest of the content SE needs to take away myth and soldiery from the hunt rewards and limit the number of books you can purchase each week.

Or
Reward each dungeon boss kill with 80 myth 20 soldiery and add 20 seals for the full dungeon clear.


How is it not broken when so many people show up that it:
crashes the servers
forced people to 90k
the mob doesn't render
freezes consoles
solo players can't get credit
small parties can't get credit

How is it not broken when:
You can take agro and reset a mob (griefing)
causes community disputes.

Tell me again how it's not broken.

Too much emphasis is placed on Elite Hunts because of the reward imbalance with the rest of the games content. Either bring Hunt rewards inline with everything else, or bring everything else up to the current value of the hunts. Direct players to other forms of content to gain rewards.

[kidvideo]

Tell me again how it's not broken.

The hunts aren't broken. It's the players than are causing whatever problem you're experiencing. Only twice I haven't been able to target an S zerg, but I haven't experienced any server crashes.

You may find a mark or you may not. Unless everyone quits an instance, you're guaranteed the rewards for completion. That's a fair trade off.

[FinnReid]

Daily and Weekly marks need to be worth more cause at this time, they're not even worth doing. Dailies are a joke with how low the rewards are, at least the weekly is equal to a A rank kill in terms of Allied Seals. And once the models disappearing is fixed (hopefully), it won't be so bad to keep up with S ranks.

[Fawkes]

Daily and Weekly marks need to be worth more cause at this time, they're not even worth doing. Dailies are a joke with how low the rewards are, at least the weekly is equal to a A rank kill in terms of Allied Seals. And once the models disappearing is fixed (hopefully), it won't be so bad to keep up with S ranks.

The weekly is horrible. I killed it and got 1 seal. I guess I didn't kill it enough to get credit for the bill.

[Vahlnir]

The weekly is horrible. I killed it and got 1 seal. I guess I didn't kill it enough to get credit for the bill.

While it certainly isn't a cure-all, you can always wait till next week and complete it...then you can pick up the next bill and start it right away. I was able to do that with last week's mark because he was nowhere to be found then. Now he's relatively easy to come across because he isn't in high demand. :P

[Richiealvian]

At first I thought it was broken, but then I realized it's a good direction. Your reward for having the latest gear is last turn of coil for that patch's progression. If I can beat it before the Echo comes up, I'm plenty happy, that's reward enough for me. Even if it gets trivialized the next patch, but this way both casual and hardcore will be happy. Probably not the extreme ends though, but that's another case.

[Grizzlebeard]

The hunts aren't broken. It's the players than are causing whatever problem you're experiencing.

Try reading what he wrote then respond.

[Kydi]

Reading about the hunts before I hit 50 I was completely against them. I though "how could they completely wreck gearing by making it that easy?"However, I hit 50 last week and to an extent I can now see why they have done it. As a fresh 50, there isn't a great deal of guidance to say what you need, or how to go about getting it. Simply a "congrats, you finished the MQ, now off you pop" (unless I've missed things). Doing some of the quests, I find myself gated by ilvl without a clear indication how to improve.

Hunts on the other hand (which I've not yet started) will give me the opportunity to get gear so that I can participate in the content. In another mmo I play, when they gave a fresh set of raid gear to new 50s, it was a sign that the level cap was increasing soon to get everyone to a similar level.

[kidvideo]

Try reading what he wrote then respond.

Try understanding the statement you quoted from me, then don't respond.

[Taruranto]

How are they not broken when they aren't balanced with the rest of the content?

A full hard mode dungeon clear gets you 50 myth and 45 soldiery.

Or

you can hunt and get:
B Rank: 5 Allied Seals, 30 Myth and 10 Soldiery.
A Rank 20 Seals, 80 Myth and 20 Soldiery.
S Rank 50 seals, 200 Myth, 40 Soldiery.

In the time it takes to run one dungeon you can get multiple B/A rank kills for far greater rewards. Not only that but you're also collecting allied seals on top of it. There is no content equivalent to hunts which make them devalue the rest of the game.

Nothing wrong with that. Dungeons are instanced. Hunts are not.

Instanced content doesn't belong in a mmorpg and automatically garbage that panders to non-mmorpg players.