ARR S ranks NEED to be made harder!

[PangTong]

time isnt much of a isssue when even fates like ixion can be done with just two or three groups

It's not that I don't think the monsters will be killed before the time limit expires if there are groups there to kill them, but rather it's possible that an S rank could be spawned by accident or on its own, without anyone hunting it, and if no one realizes it has spawned in the 20-30 minutes the FATE is active, then the monster vanishes and everyone has to wait another 3-5 days for it to spawn again. This could be avoided if they allowed it to be spawned multiple times consecutively until the FATE is completed, or if the FATE simply does not expire until it's completed, but my experience with boss FATEs like Ixion and stuff is that there are often times where they spawn, but no one is around to do them, so they simply expire and no one gets to do them until the respawn timer is up again.

[Squintina]

It's not that I don't think the monsters will be killed before the time limit expires if there are groups there to kill them, but rather it's possible that an S rank could be spawned by accident or on its own, without anyone hunting it, and if no one realizes it has spawned in the 20-30 minutes the FATE is active, then the monster vanishes and everyone has to wait another 3-5 days for it to spawn again. This could be avoided if they allowed it to be spawned multiple times consecutively until the FATE is completed, or if the FATE simply does not expire until it's completed, but my experience with boss FATEs like Ixion and stuff is that there are often times where they spawn, but no one is around to do them, so they simply expire and no one gets to do them until the respawn timer is up again.

Make it a 24 hour timer.

[Lambdafish]

Make it a 24 hour timer.

The timer should be made indefinite due to the fact that they are going to have to make it a separate system anyway. Fates at the moment show on your map, and I'd rather keep the searching aspect of hunts intact rather than an actual fate spawning on my minimap.

The only way I can think to keep the current fate system without extra system changes would be to have an NPC trigger gating the hunt which could end up being weird and clunky

[Squintina]

The only way I can think to keep the current fate system without extra system changes would be to have an NPC trigger gating the hunt which could end up being weird and clunky

The system already supports fates that don't show up on the big map, even if they still show up on the mini map. It's how the coeurlgina fate works, Odin, Ixion, and I think (but I'm not sure) Foxy Lade fate work, and all of those have multiple spawn points which means people have to search for them. Considering the small size of the minimap, people would still have to search for hunts if they got converted to this non-big-map "fate" system and kept all of the possible spawn points.

Indefinite timer would be fine. No arguments there.

[Fytayn]

Or turn them all into Eureka style fates

Do this. Please.

Didn't SE mention something about looking into Sync options outside of FATEs and Duties? I seem to recall they did...

I'm not part of a hunt linkshell so if I happen across an A-Rank in ARR or HW I tend to solo it rather than try to get the word out. Barring some mechanical challenges (had to run from the goblin in Hinterlands today, his damage buff builds too fast) it's not too hard to solo them with the help of a Chocobo. I'd give an S-Rank a try in ARR but there's a lot more work involved in spawning them than A-Ranks... Unless I'd spawned it with the help of others for the explicit purpose of soloing it I'd assume I'd stolen it and feel terribly guilty.

I shouldn't be able to solo them. No one should. They die so fast to groups that I might not get full credit after waiting 5-10 minutes; it's simply not worth the effort of letting people know and waiting until they're ready.

[azura84]

The timer should be made indefinite due to the fact that they are going to have to make it a separate system anyway. Fates at the moment show on your map, and I'd rather keep the searching aspect of hunts intact rather than an actual fate spawning on my minimap.

The only way I can think to keep the current fate system without extra system changes would be to have an NPC trigger gating the hunt which could end up being weird and clunky

Many special fates are NOT shown on the map unless you get close enough. Odin, Fox Lady, Ixion, etc.