Could we get Faction Leves back at some point?

[Lusavari]

I've been thinking a lot about leves the last few days. I'd love to see more variety and use come back. I'd also like to see Leve NPCs added into the HW zones... It kind of sucks having to go back to Ishgard to replenish when a Leve Moogle or Leve Node would make sense in some of the higher zones.

[_slowpoke_]

rather than it just spawning

Except that's not how hunts work, at least S ranks (which are the only hunt targets that really matter). They don't "just spawn", many of them have to be actively forced to spawn. Some can pop without anyone specifically trying to spawn them, but in general, there are dedicated people who do this & scout them, it's great fun and very rewarding to do so, and it very much "feels like a hunt". Please don't assume everyone shares your opinion on hunts not being fun, they are if you actually do them on not just wait for a LS to call them.

[Nalien]

Please don't assume everyone shares your opinion on hunts not being fun, they are if you actually do them on not just wait for a LS to call them.

Am I assuming that? I just don't find "Walk around with this minion out and search the zone" to be particularly entertaining... As a server event this isn't even something everyone can do, perhaps spawning a specific S Rank is OK right now, but while you're doing that, another spawns and the hoard moves to kill that and it just ruins the event for me... I'd much rather have a Levequest replicate hunting a specific target, with the final fight being me and a few friends, rather than me and far too many people... Then I can just log on and go enjoy Hunts, rather than slogging through a cumbersome world event with a lackluster payoff as the FATE-ish nature of Hunts just makes the fight dull.

You're entitled to your opinion on Hunts of course, if you enjoy the current system then great. I'm not even asking for Hunts as they are to be removed, it shouldn't be too hard for SE to implement Levequest-based Hunts alongside the existing system. I think doing that would actually improve Hunts in general, for starters you'd have less people doing the world spawn ones (which has been the only time I've ever enjoyed Hunts) even if they attached relevant rewards to them again, but it also lets SE rework B Ranks. Someone after an instant spawn Hunt can just grab the Faction Levequest after all, they'd be no need for B Ranks to be redundant jokes in the open world anymore.

Ultimately it just comes down to giving us more options. One of my biggest gripes with the current system is the drama that ends up surrounding it... It's OK when Hunts are fairly irrelevant, but when everyone jumps on the bandwagon because SE made the rewards relevant again? You simply cannot opt to challenge the enemies solo/with a small group of friends without seemingly half the server acting like you murder babies and eat kittens... Faction Levequests allowing people to spawn their own Hunt mobs would allow us to do that... It would also give people the option of logging on and just aiming for something "fun", rather than logging on and having missed all the S Ranks...

[Antanias]

I've been thinking a lot about leves the last few days. I'd love to see more variety and use come back. I'd also like to see Leve NPCs added into the HW zones... It kind of sucks having to go back to Ishgard to replenish when a Leve Moogle or Leve Node would make sense in some of the higher zones.

Having already said my piece on the hw leve npc's, more varieties are the ultimate goal. Even if they decide not to bring back the original factions that fueled the Faction Leve system in 1.0, perhaps the Grand Companies could form subdivisions or the houses of Ishgard could offer them and utilize parts of the open world that have yet to see any use since Heavensward's debut.

[Yoruichi4478]

I miss the fnms from 1.0. They were fun and also challenging some of them.