Have you gated upgrade parts behind Hunts AGAIN, SE!?

[Colorful]

Why are they limited weekly to Void Ark while being available freely through Hunts? If they truly want to gives us alternatives, that's how it should have been. Hunts are terribly designed, the worst part of the game and the majority consensus is that they just create needless toxicity among the community, why do they keep insisting on bringing them back time and time again without changing how they work?

[Canadane]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

[Tyrial]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

Nope, but it would be nice if SE would learn from their past mistakes. The whole hunt system should be reworked.

[Colorful]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

I expect them to revamp it entirely, if they're not willing to do that then yes, I expect them to drop it just as they dropped guildhests.

[Malakai]

I've actually been enjoying hunts since they have died out due to everyone hardcore grinding on them from the start. The past month all the 2.0 and 3.0 A ranks are almost always up and nobody killing them so I've taken a few of my FC members who don't get to do hunts and went out as a small group of 2-4 people and killed them all. Was a nice way to help people get achievements and some extra seals and law for other things, but honestly low manning them is pretty fun to do. They are all duoable except the two A ranks in hinterlands, those you do need a few more people. What super irritates me when they become popular is people demand everyone wait for 30-60+ people to show up for an A rank kill just so they can all hurry up to bumrush their upgrades. Hence why it's only good to bother with them if 1) you are in that zone and 2) you "really" need to do it. Otherwise it's just best to pass on A and S ranks during the craze. That or form your own small party to dedicate to hunting.So there you have it some new ways to upgrade your gear, which people are always asking SE for alternative ways to do this. Remember the huge fuss when they asked to trade in Law instead of Hunt Seals for Eso upgrades?

1) Alex Savage the same system as it has been. Challenging hard content and getting rewards unique to that content + upgrade rewards for the casual side.
2) Void Ark weekly system. Congrats you have 100% way of obtaining a gear upgrade piece. Yea it's a weekly thing but it's 100% and only requires you to do it once. Meanwhile you are getting other gear from this content.
3) Hunt seals to buy. If you do it casual you can easily make around 800 seals casually in a week just by doing your 3.0 dailies and weekly, which is 1 clan book per week since it costs 500 seals to buy. So it's the same as the other 2 being "weekly".

However yes there is no limit on hunts after all there's 2 A ranks in all 3.0 zones, so 12 there, and 1 A rank in all 2.0 zones, so 14 there. That's 26 A ranks that spawn every 3 hours or so based on when they were killed. That can add up over time but it's a huge time sink and it's likely that not everyone is going to be getting to those ranks constantly back to back. Let alone people know these things can be killed by 2-4 people so most likely there are going to be those who form up their own small parties to do them and not share death times, so times are all going to be on and off. Then there's the S ranks are always shouted and zerged to death as soon as a # of people show up. So those who are going to be dedicating their time to A/S hunts are going to stress themselves out. So the casual people are going to be getting 2 things per week one from Void Ark and one from Hunts that's pretty simple and easy to do. On top of that there's still the tome caps and scrip caps.

Honestly I don't see why the huge fuss over hunts still tho, especially since they are pretty much dead atm. Why in such a rush to upgrade gear? By the time it's upgraded there's going to be a new patch with new gear out. What is the point of maxing out the gear anyway when almost all the casual content in the game can be face-rolled with dungeon gear and tome gear? The only annoying part that is going to come back is seeing the chat box flooded with "inv!" "Wait! Don't pull!" "Reset please!" and the other things but that will end in another 2 months or so.

[Kurogaea]

Re-posting this from a similar thread:

If they made them like actual hunt quests this wouldn't be a problem. Acccept the quests from the tavern or w/e, walk up to the hunt area queue awaiting 24-72 players, explore the now empty area instance specially made for your team, seek out the monster and beat the crap out of it. Now your whole team gets full credit and everyone goes back happy.

[Eothas]

Hunts are cool when you are doing them with a small group of people.

Zergfests? Waiting 200 min so the entire server can be there? Excuse-me, no. Thats terrible. Either let us get loot freely on void ark or gate hunt into 1 piece/week.

[Silenka]

Hunts are hilarious for this exact reason.

I can take or leave them but I'm not going to complain over the chance to get my gear upgraded faster than one token a week.
Plus, the constant cries about early pulls are an endless source of entertainment (at least, endless until hunts go back to being something no one cares about, which only takes about two weeks from the time any patch drops).

You shouldn't expect the entire server to pander to you specifically. If you want to participate in the content, try to get into a good hunt LS, be ready to get your party going and get to the mob as quick as you can. If it gets pulled before you get there, it's not the end of the world. I don't understand why people insist on acting like it is, but it sure is amusing to watch from my perspective.

[Brannigan]

FATEs you do with 350 other people should totally give out rewards that raids only give one of per week.

[Silenka]

"Raids"; Void Ark is going to be just as faceroll as FATEs, just like the CT chain.