the hunts made me hate this community now

[Baneus]

It's the same community its always been. Except now you're interacting with them. Welcome to the bad part of MMOs - other people

[Leash]

I have also come to hate hunts and the assholes that come with them.

The one time I thought I was being helpful by calling out a NM, then seconds later a jackass tank ran up from no where and pulled it while him and one other dps took it down and then ran off.

Now seconds later I have a swarm of people bitching at me because ‘I lied’ even though I kept telling them some rogue tank ran in and pulled it just as I called it.

I was very very casual with hunts but now I’m not even going to bother.

[NorthernLadMSP]

After hunting for about two weeks now, I can say I usually enjoy hunting. For the most part, it's really fun.

However, I've noticed something (at least on my server). This is a generalization, so by no means a statement that everyone is like this. But, it seems to me the people who are active in parties and actively searching are the more polite ones who shout, give coords and generally help each other. To me it seems the immature ragers and name-callers are the people who stand around in MD just waiting to be given the info on a platter. Then, they get pissed when the monster is dead before they arrive.

[Gormogon]

First raids now hunts. This is why we can't have nice things.

[Cherie]

FFXIV: A hunt reborn!

I personally don't really like hunts at all. But I do them all the time. Why? It's all you can get a party for reliably in this game now. Sure, I get people keep telling me over and over that this is a "flavor of the month", but I disagree. The rewards will just keep getting upgraded. Soon you will be able to spend hunt marks on i120 gear and whatnot.

Really, hunts are all fine, but until there is something else with a equally good reward, it's just a pain to find people to do anything that actually involves uses those skills on your bar.... My fellow hunters can't deny that if you are dps and try to do damage, you'll be kicked from you hunt group (Gotta kill it slow so the rest of the groups get credit!). If you are a healer, all you do it hit the mob once and spam medica II. If you are a tank, you just spam flash so you don't damage the boss and still get threat. From a game aspect, isn't that just exploiting mechanics to get as many people credit on a mob as possible? It doesn't really matter besides the fact that it makes hunts extra boring. I'd love hunts if they offered some kind of challenge that would, you know, require us to use our skills in the fashion they were intended.

It just seems like hunting is just a big exploit/bypass of all game mechanics. The only one doing any kind of work is the few scouts that actually go look. But if you have a couple hundred people, 90% of them will just sit there and wait. It's like having a job where you just be lazy and just go pick up your check when it's friday! :P When you get the numbers of people that are involved in hunts as they are, the mobs barely have any chance to fight back.

My suggestion, would be similar to the one the game Rift uses for it's zone bosses. The mob just gets stronger the more people that are around. In Rift, the lore was it absorbed some of your soul by being near you. However SE wants to shake it, I really think this would be the only way hunts will ever post any kind of challenge. If one person wants to take on a B, then well, maybe he could do it but it takes a while as usual. If a hundred people show up to fight that same rank B, then omg you better watch out, that rank B is going to kick butt and chew bubblegum!

[Luvbunny]

Yeah it is rather disappointing. I came back for the free weekend in July promotion, end up renewing my subs seeing how much contents they have added and they all look great. Then I realized that no one really do any of the older contents or the duty finder dungeons because everyone is doing Hunt, and only Hunt and nothing but Hunt. And it is impossible to get credits or have the mob to load during peak time since hordes of people would come and zerg everything. Kinda pointless to continue with the subscription.... and to think they did amazing job with the last three patches worth of contents - to see one particular one destroying everything else is just sad...

[ChiefCurrahee]

Hunts: devaluing FFXIV since July 7th 2014.

[Taruranto]

This is the community you brewed with your DF, instanced content and instant-rewards. Now you are forced to deal with them, for the first time. You reap what you sow, WoW kiddies.

Aren't you happy?

[Angelfish51]

The hunt has hurted the atmosphere of the game so much to a level that is unmendable (unless SE abandons it completely). What they could do now is just to add the alli-seal reward to dungeons and roulettes and other contents to balance the hunt.

[Hayward]

This is the community you brewed with your DF, instanced content and instant-rewards. Now you are forced to deal with them, for the first time. You reap what you sow, WoW kiddies.

Aren't you happy?

You can have a seat with that argument unless you're willing to condemn the concept of HNMs and HNMLS in XI. Don't even think Hunts are anywhere near as bad as the debacle known as HNM camping.