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

[Duuude007]

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.

you can. At the top of the week you do the mad rush of synchronized marks, in the lulls do your daily ones, etc. Later in the week respawns are fully randomized so it is simple to remain in the same group jumping A to A.

[Thayos]

This was a great change and will get people back into the roulette.

Will it?

Thanks to hunts, I already have my Novus. I do need more soldiery, but more seals wouldn't hurt either, so I'll probably just do A ranks as windows come up. Also still need ST, so I'll get some tomes there, too.

Only time I should need to do roulette is at the end of the week, if I need to top off... and I'm guessing others who've been doing hunts for awhile may be in the same boat.

EDIT: I will probably queue up for WP for SBing.

[Dyvid]

I am actually doing a facepalm right now. I feel like they are missing the entire point of hunts. As the current system is right now, by doing only marks, I would be search for an actually NM once a week and spending the rest of the time doing a pseudo Animus grind.

B rank changes good, but have those marks as dailies not weeklies. Weeklies should be Rank A and add something else for Rank S. I guess my point is I want to get a bill and hunt a NM mark, not grind normal monsters and FATEs.

[ElHeggunte]

I am actually doing a facepalm right now. I feel like they are missing the entire point of hunts. As the current system is right now, by doing only marks, I would be search for an actually NM once a week and spending the rest of the time doing a pseudo Animus grind.

B rank changes good, but have those marks as dailies not weeklies. Weeklies should be Rank A and add something else for Rank S. I guess my point is I want to get a bill and hunt a NM mark, not grind normal monsters and FATEs.

How exactly is SE "missing the point" of Hunts when they designed them? It's the players who seem to have completely misconstrued their intent.

[Dyvid]

How exactly is SE "missing the point" of Hunts when they designed them? It's the players who seem to have completely misconstrued their intent.

Can't believe I need to post this stuff when people know why Hunts are in Eorzea but fine.

The Hunt, a new initiative started by the Eorzean Alliance, will have adventurers tracking down and defeating notorious monsters roaming the land referred to as "elite marks." But hey, if a dev says I"m wrong I would gladly apology to the entire development team.

As it stands I'm hunting normal mobs and FATEs on a daily basis with one Elite mark a week. This is boring and a contrition to what Yoshi-P said Hunt were. I'm at a lose to why B was changed at all if the end result once to only find them once a week. I actually enjoy the concept of running around the zone, hunting for my Elite Mark. Today I finished my first and last daily/weekly 2.35 hunt because frankly, it's just not fun to me.

[darkstarpoet1]

ha, i actually laughed at that. i dont do B ranks, and with 20-30 minute total hunting, with crafting between the As, i made enough seal to buy a log, for 250, not to mention i got half the soldiery cap, then got kicked off for maintenance. there are a lot of people that dont even bother with B ranks. in a few hours of hunts, i was able to cap on myth, soldiery, and have almost 1k seals, that was just hunting As on my first day

somehow this doesn't add up. you have 17 a ranks at 20 seals a piece. you only have 340 seals every 3-4 hours. then add in your weekly and you are at 390. then add in your dailies and you are 420 seals. so unless you hunted through 3 a cycles today you did not get 1k seals. you would have had to be hunting close to 10 hours and not miss a single a rank mobs to get such.

[TheRogueX]

Will it?

Thanks to hunts, I already have my Novus. I do need more soldiery, but more seals wouldn't hurt either, so I'll probably just do A ranks as windows come up. Also still need ST, so I'll get some tomes there, too.

Only time I should need to do roulette is at the end of the week, if I need to top off... and I'm guessing others who've been doing hunts for awhile may be in the same boat.

EDIT: I will probably queue up for WP for SBing.

And here is an example as to why hunts were broken in the first place.

[rwyan]

The community broke hunts

I think the system was designed to provide some nice, somewhat interesting, casual open-world content. Casual in the sense that the encounters were intended to provide a bit of flavor and be something done on the side as encounters were found. Instead, the whole system is being meta-gamed by the "hardcore" crowd who think hunting for 5-6-7-8hrs is somehow fun and engaging. This type of meta-gaming is considered "hardcore" because sitting around for 5-6-7-8hrs doing this thing is "challenging".

[Miakisaki]

Once 2.4 releases, i110 will be outdated. Rogue/Ninja will be out. Everything would have mellowed out without these changes while still allowing new players (and new Ninjas!) an opportunity to catch up and experience 2.4 and 2.5 content. Not anymore.

All these changes do are punish new players who wanted to catch up to raid with their friends and those that looked to i110 as a little confidence booster to be able to clear current and even old content. It was a refreshing change coming away from seeing people run the first two bosses of Brayflox HM a thousand times. Hunting also brought entire server communities together where people got to know each other from daily hunting groups. On Leviathan, be you new or old all you had to do was ask to be in our hunting groups even if you only had an hour to play. All of this is now gone to appease people who want the game to be lifeless. To never have to communicate or speak to anyone. It saddens me that people wish that to become the norm.

[skaterger]

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What changes? They didn't change A or S rank so you can still go zerging with your huntshells for unbalanced rewards. They changed B rank to how it was meant to be done originally, solo or light party, not by a horde of rampaging elephants. Most hunters don't go for B rank mobs so I think the weekly change should be a welcome addition. Or are you upset about solo and small group players now able to get decent rewards because their playstyle is different from what you envision it should be >_>.