SE Why Do You Hate Hunts?

[GatorWPB]

I honestly don't care if Hunts are worse off for farming tomes, my problem is that you made it take longer to upgrade Animus Weapons with this patch. I used to be able to get 2 Alexandrite for every 10 A Rank Hunts. 200 Seals gave one, 800 Myths gave an Alexandrite Map. Now it takes twice as many hunts to produce the 400 Soldiery needed for a map. So instead of 2 every 10 A Ranks, it's now 3 every 20 A Ranks.

You made Atma easier to obtain, but further upgrades more time consuming.

This. As someone that just completed Animus, the Alex step for relic was made more difficult all around. Very frustrating.
One option is to reduce the cost of Mysterious map to 200 soldiery. Myth to Sold conversion was 4:1, so the cost of the Mysterious Map should be 25% what it was for Myth.

[Bushido_Brown]

Why not just make the B ranks into the daily hunts? That puts a stop to hardcore farming groups monopolizing them, and actually makes the dailies worth doing. Put them up to 8 marks, though.

Thank you for the input, but I personally would rather do without dailies, being regulated to how much work you can put in when you have the free-time to do so is not fun to me. If the tome payout was removed completely from B-ranks, I can't really see how parties would even bother with them, and they wouldn't be able to monopolize them because of their respawn rate.

[Toranja]

Hunting is working just fine now.

[Ferrosovian]

• Allagan tomestones of poetics and soldiery would mainly be collected via instanced dungeons and Crystal Tower.

The current values are not a permanent thing, and we will also continue to make adjustments based off of everyone’s feedback.

Why must one be the main way and the other be sub-optimal way? I don't enjoy running dungeons daily. I do enjoy running hunts with new people, making new friends on the server, and shooting the shit with people I've never met. I make friends while hunting, I don't make friends while doing dungeons. Please bring back the potency to hunts that allows me to actually have the most fun I can while playing your game, and still remain relevant.

[Blacksmith_Tony]

I think the biggest crime is that it costs almost the same, or in some cases MORE, for ilvl 70 hunt gear, as it does for ilvl 100 soldiery gear once you factor in the prices of allied seals. Going from ilvl 90 bodies for about 40 seals to ilvl 100 for 660 is somehow made worse when you realize they have GC ilvl 70 gear for close to the same price.

SE just can't balance their yoyo act of how to do post 50 content. Either too generous or too harsh, usually ping ponging between the two every major update. 2.0 / 2.2 / 2.4 make it very rough for the less hardcore players to really do anything, and funnels everyone into repeating the same content, then 2.1 / 2.3 / likely 2.5 eases up and makes it so Joe Blow and his pals can finally progress, while Super Jim and crew can gear up those alts in record time.

[Xatsh]

For people who do not like running dungeons everyday to cap tokens this is bad news. Honestly spamming boring faceroll dungeons is far worse then doing the hunts, even with the horrible way they were implemented. People did not stop doing dungeons because Hunts were better... it is was more the fact that most of endgame is sick of spamming easy mode/no reward dungeons for tokens.

They needed to be balanced, what this does is kill off the content for anyone at endgame.

Ok do it for allied seals that is fine. But allied seals are garbage for the most part outside of alexandrite and vanity. And content for pure vanity purposes is just not applicable for 75%+ of the community. Make it where 250 marks can be traded in for 25 poetics or something.

[Renarudo]

You now have to have a coil static to upgrade your gear or wait a few months, because Square can't be bothered to reward anyone except people playing the way they want.

I will disagree with this by saying that the people who tackle the harder content should be the ones rewarded with first dibs on higher tiered loot, because they're working the hardest. I'm perfectly ok with Coil groups having bragging rights to 130 gear and 135 weapons, because they deserve it for their hard work.

[Cadwgan]

Why must one be the main way and the other be sub-optimal way? I don't enjoy running dungeons daily. I do enjoy running hunts with new people, making new friends on the server, and shooting the shit with people I've never met. I make friends while hunting, I don't make friends while doing dungeons. Please bring back the potency to hunts that allows me to actually have the most fun I can while playing your game, and still remain relevant.

Because hunts was a one-shop shop for literally everything, there was zero reason to do anything but hunts for gear.

You can obtain more than enough poetics to cap by running your daily expert roulette, fill the rest with hunts if you enjoy hunting.

[SarcasmMisser]

There was no reason to make BOTH sets of new gear dependent on having a steady coil static. That's just telling everyone else who plays that they really don't give a crap about you.

The developers decide the terms of how you obtain gear not the player otherwise the idea of the biggest carrot for the hardest challenge would be severely restricted. The people I know who play casually respect that but hey, if everyone thought that way I wouldn't be able to enjoy reading the helpless complaints like this for the next 3 months hahaha.

[CGMidlander]

Hunts were honestly a tad too rewarding for the little amount of effort involved.

SE nerfed them this time, but they will probably buff them back to a happier medium between what hunts were at launch and their current state, later.