Hunt etiquette - early or not?

[AegonLegends]

Are you guys exaggerating or something like that?
On Exodus, it's pretty common to announce and wait 2-3 minutes before pulling, and ask if anyone is on their way. There is one person that's a known early puller, but if that person pulls, people just shout "pulled" and attack it, not name calling. It takes a minute or so to kill the A ranks that has little to no AoE, and a few minutes to down Marraco, on prime hours. In my first hunts I got to see all of their attacks, so I guess we have less hunters here, and you can even get full credit with a 2-player party. Though S ranks do get a bit laggy, but people still respect each other.

[Lorielle]

....Why did we bother bumping such an old thread? I think Hunts at this point just don't really care.

[wicked-one]

[AegonLegends]

Oh god, I answered the wrong thread >.> Great start

[Niwashi]

But your party should be ACTIVELY involved in searching for your mark.

I'm always surprised by the number of posts that sound as though people think that will help to get you there in time. I've often been in active hunt groups, all of us searching the right region for a mark that was due to pop, but we spread out to search more effectively, so I may be searching one end of the region while a teammate is looking for it at the far end of the region. So I'm actively searching in a party that's actively searching, and it may be my party that finds the mob first. None of that removes the fact that if it was my teammate at the far end who found it, I still have to trek clear across the region before reaching them.

I've seen the same thing from the other direction, too. I'll be in a party that's spread out to search and I'll find a mark with nobody else there yet. I'll announce it and as my party starts heading towards me other players will arrive and one of them will announce their pull, without any regard for the fact that the mob wasn't their find.

Early pulling isn't about finding a mark yourself and pulling once your party gets there without waiting for the rest of the server. Early pulling is coming to a mark that somebody else who's NOT in your party has already found and announced, and then pulling it before the original finder's party can get there.

[Maxsdad]

It's not an old topic to new players, and it's OBVIOUSLY still enough of a concern that it deserved refreshing by a few players. Unless some of you 'old timer experts' feel that anyone less experienced is deserving of your sanctimonious contempt and pious superiority. Lighten up, you weren't ALWAYS the Eorzean monster hiding under Odin's bed.

[Skathi_Asatru]

I tend to shout a couple of times and wait for anyone to answer or come. If not then I'll pull. I have been told I'm a very considerate player

[Cerick]

A trend on Ultros that has been working well is a time is set on the pull. Pulling Hunt @ 8:00am game time for example. Gives you an understanding of if you can make it or not so you don't waste time. This is shared in link shells, shouts, and FC chats. Maybe it will work for you, maybe it won't.

[Cookymon]

200 seals for an alexandrite, no 800 myth map needed.... If it weren't for that I would agree.

Alexandrite? Can you eat that?

[Kaiser-Ace]

I saw something funny the other day. A big S rank was spotted, a few parties assembled and said "Holding for 60s for otw party members" Then out of no where a mage comes out of no where with a chocobo and pet in toe and pulls it. Surprisingly no one moved and the mage, his pet, and his chocobo all went down in a triple one shot kill.

The party leaders and everyone else just stood there and laughed until the last members showed up and we zerged it.

Mage was pretty pissed too when everyone refused to rez him.