Hunts don't really feel like...hunting.

[Dorfentyme]

Decided to try the hunts feature during the free week, grabbed all my marks, ran to the weekly hunt area, walked around the area...then I realized, I just have to wait for it to spawn and hope I get there for the kill.

There's no such "hunt" involved. I just...hope I'm in the area when the enemy spawns?

Even some of the basic hunts is "be in this area when this FATE starts" and hope I get in on the kill in time, or whatever.

Really? This is the hunting feature? I mean, I suppose if you enjoyed NM camping in FFXI than you may enjoy hunts but...really? Am I missing something? There's no hunting involved it's just sit and wait, or run around until it spawns. Either way, hope I get lucky and get in on the kill as it spawns. I don't get it. The rewards are so damn good that it feels like this is what I should be doing anyways.

[HumsterMKX]

*in 16-bit voice*
Welcome to your doom.

[Velox]

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Yea the current hunts are the most disappointing feature to date. B-rank fix to make them require a mark bill added to the "hunt immersion" so that was a welcomed change. Hopefully they redesign A-ranks to require a full party to follow clues and track the thing down. That would eliminate the zerg rush and make them more like true hunts.

[Shadow_Viper_vX]

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Not to mention that now thanks to all the crybabies, unless you have a Mark/Writ for a Named Hunt Mob, you don't get any rewards what so ever for the kill. Yes let's make a new feature even more pointless and waste of time, good idea SE; please stop listening to the vocal miniority of crybabies that are always screaming nerf for every little thing they don't like.

[KarmaCha]

I love the way hunts are now. Eliminating B-rank zergs made the entire system accessible to a wider range of players while slowing down the rush enough to encourage people to do other content.

They were not working as intended and the developers acknowledged this far before they fixed them. Are you really crying over the dismissal of a broken system? Get over it.

[Zaft]

I love the way hunts are now. Eliminating B-rank zergs made the entire system accessible to a wider range of players while slowing down the rush enough to encourage people to do other content.

They were not working as intended and the developers acknowledged this far before they fixed them. Are you really crying over the dismissal of a broken system? Get over it.

Maybe our servers were different...but B rank hunting was a lot of fun on Excalibur. We had a server-wide TeamSpeak for Hunts. Somebody would find it, we would call out a time to pull it, and everyone would go riding over and get ready. You always got full credit, and because you had so many people in so many zones, you were nearly always fighting something.

Now people only bother to look for Hunts when the S rank windows open up. Other than that, Hunts are essentially dead.

Maybe that's what people wanted. But I feel like it's a serious waste.

[Estevo]

I don't have any constructive criticism, but I do know that the hunt wasn't made the best it could be, I also know it can still be fixed, or at the most, reworked into a more suitable system. I can see how depressed the devs could get seeing all this negativity on their system that they tried because of player feedback, at least help them try to make it better. Honestly if this keeps up I could see the devs never taking feedback again, (I'm sure they always will though, I could just see why they wouldn't)

[Felis]

There's no hunting involved it's just sit and wait, or run around until it spawns.

Sit and wait is not hunting? Then this guy do it wrong

[Pyreflye]

I have to admit, I was pretty disappointed with how "hunts" were handled.

I thought that it'd actually involve tracking down enemies and fighting them.
You know, get a party of 4-8, search for clues in the world. Footprints, broken branches that indicate a fight, dead animals, talking to frightened locals who saw the monster.
Engaging things like that.

Hell, S rank spawns could require a group of 8 to track clues through multiple zones.
Might start the hunt from a tip that a random NPC gave you, track footprints through the Black Shroud, find dead animals littered around Coerthas and finally hunt down the monster in a cave at Mor Dhona.

The possibilities are endless.

Instead, it's just either
A) Run around looking for your weekly B mark
Or
B) Join a party that zergs down A and S rank marks

No fun involved, just zergs.

I still hold hope that my dream of Hunts will someday be implemented.

[TheCurls]

stuff.

So, if running around a zone looking for a monster isn't hunting. Or sitting in a known spawn point while waiting for your prey to cross your path isn't hunting either.

What is?