So buffing the reward, and nerfing the marks is the answer to fixing the Hunts?

[Alx789]

did they change the amount of soldiery it takes to get a 110 piece of gear?

No. Nesessary amount of soldiery can be got at 15 weeks due to 450 weekly limit.
Sands and oil. Total cost is 7500 seals. Or 80 hours of hunt before patch and i don't know how much now. Alternative ways - random drops in coils and tower. I don't know how many raids needed when all 8 players wants this.

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total soldiery needed to buy i100 gear that can be upgraded
2*825 + 4*495 + 5* 375 = 5505 or 12.3 weeks
Weapon - 1 unidentified tomestone + 1300 soldiery or 3 weeks
Upgrade -
7 sands of time (3 mark logs each) = 21 mark log = 5250 allied seals
5 oil of time (2 mark logs each) = 10 mark logs = 2500 allied seals
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Now we have 32 seals from daily quest - 10+10+3*4 or 224+50=274 seals/week from bills
I90 complect costs 2*40+4*30+5*20=300 seals - a little more than 1 week in job quest gear

[Gralna]

Good job SE..

...continue to negate any reason for doing group content....

I wonder if I'll have to pay a sub for Final Fantasy 15 for that single-player experience.

to go with that whine

[monochromicorn]

No. Nesessary amount of soldiery can be got at 15 weeks due to 450 weekly limit.
Sands and oil. Total cost is 7500 seals. Or 80 hours of hunt before patch and i don't know how much now. Alternative ways - random drops in coils and tower. I don't know how many raids needed when all 8 players wants this.

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total soldiery needed to buy i100 gear that can be upgraded
2*825 + 4*495 + 5* 375 = 5505 or 12.3 weeks
Weapon - 1 unidentified tomestone + 1300 soldiery or 3 weeks
Upgrade -
7 sands of time (3 mark logs each) = 21 mark log = 5250 allied seals
5 oil of time (2 mark logs each) = 10 mark logs = 2500 allied seals

the only limiting factor is still soldiery. you could get the full set as fast as the soldiery cap allowed it. you could get the sands/oils relatively fast, if you wanted to. i still have an extra UAT. i got the seal required for the mark logs in one day of A rank hunts.

[Zarzak]

Given that the spawn timer between A, and S ranks are pretty lengthy..if you're spending time waiting around for all of them, you've got another problem.

Given that most people, on my server at least, don't even bother with B ranks in the 1st place. This statement is totally false. Got 250ish (think it was 263 or some fked up number) soldiery in ~2 hours (the time between getting home and having raids) just last reset so that I could get my new robe b4 raid time.

Let us not pretend Bs were in any way the reason hunts make all other content invalid. B's were the only ones that were properly tuned in the 1st place.

[Khyra]

Given that most people, on my server at least, don't even bother with B ranks in the 1st place.

While I'm willing to believe that is true, I got like half my seals from B's. Only ever killed like 3 S's, and the split between B/A was about 50/50 for seals, so its a pretty huge nerf IMO.

[Alx789]

Now i see that all a-marks are cleaned in 2 hours then 2 hours pause. It is not good for hunt - process should be continuuos

2monochromicorn - you forget about time. I am unable to play 48 hours/day

[SendohJin]

Now i see that all a-marks are cleaned in 2 hours then 2 hours pause. It is not good for hunt - process should be continuuos

why is it not good, why does it have to be continuous?

[Khyra]

why is it not good, why does it have to be continuous?

It (not continuous hunts) is another thing that favors those with excessive playtime. If you only have a couple hours to play, you can't spend that time hunting B's anymore, and if no A's up... then you're just getting dailies (and prob not all that with the fates and crap). Thats much much slower than before.

[Alx789]

why is it not good, why does it have to be continuous?

Do you play 4hours/day or more? What to do if less? I think that player should have a possibility to start hunting at any time.

[monochromicorn]

Now i see that all a-marks are cleaned in 2 hours then 2 hours pause. It is not good for hunt - process should be continuuos

2monochromicorn - you forget about time. I am unable to play 48 hours/day

i do not play all the time. i get maybe 3 hours at a time, except weekends. and it is great for the hunt. its so damaging that you actually have to do something between A rank spawns, im so sorry.i didnt bother with B ranks. between those spawns, i did dungeons, crafted gathered, or leveled my other classes. you are part of the reason that they changed it. you probably did nothing but hunt, which took away from all other apspects of the game. now that you constant hunt is taken away from you, you have no clue what to do with all that time.