Hunts becoming popular again?

[kyuven]

On the "bright side" this time around for quite a few classes the gear upgrades are barely worth it since several pieces of the Ironworks gear are utter garbage.
Looking at you, BRD chest piece...

[Akuryu]

which is why I hope SE learned there lesson the last time. I don't mind hunting, its something to do, and thats the reason I play games (distraction) but the last round of hunts killed a lot of viable content because "why do X when you can gear up through hunts?"

I hope so too, but I don't see anything in the patch notes indicating there is a limit. I would be totally ok with you being able to get 1 twine and 1 coat per week from hunts. If there is no limit however, 9/10 PF entries will be hunt groups, and nobody is going to care about any other content for at least the next month. I remember how hard it was to get Ramuh groups when 2.3 first came out. I remember people quitting out of dungeons and raids because ZOMG A HUNT JUST POPPED ON MY SERVER!!!

[Ultimatecalibur]

I'm hoping there is a limit on how many coat/twine you can get through hunts in a week, but knowing SE there won't be. To add insult to injury they'll limit you to one a week from WoD, meanwhile people will be getting 5 a day from hunts.

Reviving hunts = good.
Making hunts THE BEST WAY to gear up = not good.

No need to bother adding new dungeons, raids, trials, etc. The entire population will be chasing piss-easy marks, and screaming angrily at each other in process, for at least the next 2 months.

You do notice that they have not changed the amount of tomestones rewarded. Dungeons are a better source for those. If you want Carboncoat, Carbontwine, Sands of Time or Oil of Time then you want to hunt. If you want to purchase the gear to use those do other stuff.

[Rasylia]

You do notice that they have not changed the amount of tomestones rewarded. Dungeons are a better source for those. If you want Carboncoat, Carbontwine, Sands of Time or Oil of Time then you want to hunt. If you want to purchase the gear to use those do other stuff.

If you capped poetics every week you have all the gear you need allready.

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Can't wait to hear the cries of those who came 10 minutes late, complain about early pullers.

Oh I know right? Almost ever hunt has "that guy" who didn't make it and blames everyone for his own incompetency. After all, it's always "Everyone pulled early!" and never ever "I was slow and late". The 100 people who were ready are selfish for not waiting for 1 person, but 1 person demanding that 100 people wait for him is not selfish at all.

[Violyre]

Oh I know right? Almost ever hunt has "that guy" who didn't make it and blames everyone for his own incompetency. After all, it's always "Everyone pulled early!" and never ever "I was slow and late". The 100 people who were ready are selfish for not waiting for 1 person, but 1 person demanding that 100 people wait for him is not selfish at all.

Could be worse. I once waited 20 minutes to get people for an A-rank, and as soon as it died people started yelling how we should've been helping them in East Shroud instead of pulling the one in Southern Thanalan.

Hunts are just ridiculous.

[Arcari]

Word from the grapevine:

1 Carbontwine: 6 Unstained Mark Log
1 Carboncoat: 4 Unstained Mark Log

So...it would take 75 A ranks to get one Carbontwine, or 30 S ranks.

Yeah, I don't think Hunts are going to pick back up like people think they are.

Of course, there's still the chance of logs dropping directly from NMs but as we know, RNG gonna RNG.

[Ultimatecalibur]

If you capped poetics every week you have all the gear you need allready.

Except for the weapon and you can always use the Poetics to gear up a second class.

The big problem with Hunts when they were first introduced was that they were also one of the best sources of Myth and Soldiery making all other content (outside of ST for the Unidentified Tomestones) unnecessary if you wanted to gear up a class.

In 2.4 Hunts died down because A ranks no longer gave out limited tomes.

[Rasylia]

Except for the weapon and you can always use the Poetics to gear up a second class.

The big problem with Hunts when they were first introduced was that they were also one of the best sources of Myth and Soldiery making all other content (outside of ST for the Unidentified Tomestones) unnecessary if you wanted to gear up a class.

In 2.4 Hunts died down because A ranks no longer gave out limited tomes.

Yes, but i thought we were talking about main class Also, im used to think people have Ilvl 125 Relic weapons - or are at least on their way (Nexus). Bad habbit ^.^

[XgungraveX]

"in b4 people complain again saying you should only get this gear from coil"