Would you all like to see something beyond S-Rank Hunts?

[BillyKaplan]

Well best way to counter that kind of abuse is that once the hunt fails, and he resets all HP he will disappear until next reset.

Unless they're auto-spawns no one will even bother. S ranks are a pain in the neck to spawn and you already run the risk of it being pulled and you'll miss it, despite being the one to spawn it. So to have even more of a chance for that effort to go to waste? No thank you.

The only place in the open world for this is the FATE bosses, like Odin, Tamamo-no-Gozen, and Ixion.

[Kaliesto]

I'd rather see the existing Hunt system deepened. Adding another difficulty layer on top really won't matter much.

For instance, why not merge the idea of Hunts and maps? Let A- and S-rank Hunts sporadically drop Key Items for participants, that can be then be used to spawn a new tier of encounters in a fashion similar to Maps. Feature a couple of tiers, with varying rewards, that are targeted at a fixed party of, say, six reasonably geared individuals in terms of difficulty.

Well that sounds more better than I had in mind.

[MageBlack]

I hear they have introduced these Notorious Monsters, they sound exactly like what you are looking for

[CainCrimson]

I fail to see how these U-rank monsters would be a real challenge. You know people would throw bodies at it until it died.

[Kaliesto]

I hear they have introduced these Notorious Monsters, they sound exactly like what you are looking for

You know what? I forgot about them hahaha but yeah you're right they do present the right challenge.

[MageBlack]

You know what? I forgot about them hahaha but yeah you're right they do present the right challenge.

They have gotten much better since the last patch, you actually see the mechanics. Serket is my favorite! IMHO Eureka should have been the open world from the get go.

[TruebladeNuke]

When a new expansion is released, with all new S ranks, we'll have the difficulty again for a little while.

Simply reading this reminded me of the early launch days of Stormblood. Some players in the Levi server were trying to take down Erle, a level 70 A rank, while the average highest character level of the player base at the time was about 63-64. Sooooooo many dead bodies on the floor. :P

That said, I agree with the post overall too. Hunts will be a challenge again for a little while during at least the initial launch week of 5.0.

[SendohJin]

They have gotten much better since the last patch, you actually see the mechanics. Serket is my favorite! IMHO Eureka should have been the open world from the get go.

kind of, but that's hard to reconcile with expansions releasing the new zones and level cap increases. at the very least they should really save the last zone (Asyz Lla, The Lochs) for this kind of stuff.

[Remedi]

kind of, but that's hard to reconcile with expansions releasing the new zones and level cap increases. at the very least they should really save the last zone (Asyz Lla, The Lochs) for this kind of stuff.

I always felt that the last zone of the expansion is not really well used(well the lochs this time around not as bad as azys lla but anyway) this would idd make things perhaps better, though it could be problematic on launch because of the obvious massive influx of players that said I approve the idea

[Kaliesto]

I always felt that the last zone of the expansion is not really well used(well the lochs this time around not as bad as azys lla but anyway) this would idd make things perhaps better, though it could be problematic on launch because of the obvious massive influx of players that said I approve the idea

Yeah the Lochs has a lot of unknown areas, and I guess it's just for story background but I wish the Lochs had more use.