Hunt changes - for the better of us all

[Evangela]

I want the title that requires me to kill 300 Bs. now it seems impossible unless I want to waste my time killing them for 0 seal.

[Thayos]

Called casuals and non hunt ls players cry babies while you were at it. I wonder who's crying now? Some got greedy and nasty with the hunts which lead into other things getting neglected.

I wouldn't blame hunt linkshells for these changes... most of the people on the forums who seemed to be complaining are minority of players who don't want to join hunting groups and would rather solo for their seals. If everyone had been as cooperative as the hunt groups, then I doubt SE would have made these changes. We're only getting this B-rank nerf because people opposed to hunt groups complained enough.

Fortunately, I got all the seals I needed, so I'm not affected by this. I feel bad though for people who thought this "fix" would keep them on even footing with people who've been in hunt groups. Most seals come from A ranks, but I'd say at least a quarter of all my seals have come from B ranks. If I were still hunting as hardcore as I was a couple weeks ago, I'd consider that a pretty substantial nerf.

[Clawtooth]

Hopefully the breaks in the A train will make people actually do things in the Duty Finder again ... hopefully ...

DF has been slower than usual since 2.3 hit ... so hopefully this will help things a little *fingers crossed*.

For the people annoyed at a longer grind ... well all I can say is that patience is a virtue ... you don't need to be full 110 within a week. I feel this system makes group hunting more optional ... a thing where it's more of a "I'll do it if I feel like it" rather than "you must join the zerg". I dunno ...

[ShinkuTachi]

I can't say I'm exactly happy with the change, because I was enjoying the profit.

However, I am glad that not enough damage was done to hurt the good things "The Hunt" has done with community building on Hyperion. So yeah, I can at least thank SE for not making huge sweeping changes.

[Taruranto]

to do things more solo.

eeeeewwwwwww

[Tillia]

I want the title that requires me to kill 300 Bs. now it seems impossible unless I want to waste my time killing them for 0 seal.

But now they respawn in seconds! So you can theoretically get that title within a day :P

[Illya]

This honestly is not much a nerf, because most players were only killing Bs they came across while hunting A and waiting for S. I know on Ultros people didn't care about B pretty much at all by the end, no one even bothered to update the commonly used time of death tracker with B kills anymore.

I like that the daily bills will be meaningful now, so you can just pop in and kill a few B for your daily bills if you don't feel like doing a full A train chasing hunt party that day. And since A and S are untouched, if you still want to grind them out that hasn't changed at all. I still have a lot of Alexandrite to get and this won't really affect my daily Alex gathering at all.

[Luvbunny]

So basically the poor now has a chance to get some seals at their own pace (and not being rewarded mythology and soldiery from B ranks - just seals). And the rich can mercilessly camp all the A's and S's rank, taking control, getting rewarded with gazilion myth and soldiery?

[ispano]

I wouldn't blame hunt linkshells for these changes... most of the people on the forums who seemed to be complaining are minority of players who don't want to join hunting groups and would rather solo for their seals. If everyone had been as cooperative as the hunt groups, then I doubt SE would have made these changes. We're only getting this B-rank nerf because people opposed to hunt groups complained enough.

Fortunately, I got all the seals I needed, so I'm not affected by this. I feel bad though for people who thought this "fix" would keep them on even footing with people who've been in hunt groups. Most seals come from A ranks, but I'd say at least a quarter of all my seals have come from B ranks. If I were still hunting as hardcore as I was a couple weeks ago, I'd consider that a pretty substantial nerf.

Actually, I bet SE would still change it. In one of the recent interviews Yoshi even said what was being done was completely not intended and they planned to make changes based on that.

[Volcano]

Hmm, i already ignored B ranks for the most part, now i have a full reason not to care for them at all. This is good news indeed.