Dear Hunt Community (Regarding S Ranks)

[Jojoya]

I believe you misunderstood. I'm questioning the ideas of level sync or turning the hunts into FATEs, requiring clicking flags and whatnot, i.e. altering the mechanics in such a way that older hunt mobs will become impossible to solo. If every A Rank and S rank suddenly becomes Special Tarasque Force, how would one solo it?

I don't particularly interact with Hunts or the hunting community. Sometimes, if I see a special mob in 50/60/70 area while I'm out there gathering, I like that I can quickly dispatch it alone or with a friend and my chocobo and go back to gathering.

I don't see a reason why that should suddenly become impossible, to appease a discord group who've decided on a set of rules I never agreed to.

That's why SE hasn't changed hunt design despite some parts of the community asking for changes going back to before I started hunting in Stormblood. They want it to be its own separate form of content, not another set of FATEs that a large part of the player community likes to call pointless and boring.

That Discord group might like to portray itself as arbiters of all things hunt related but they have no such authority. While I'm in general agreement that it's nice to wait a reasonable amount of time for others to arrive, if someone doesn't want to wait they don't have to. I can choose to attack when they do, or wait hoping to buy a little extra time for others to arrive. As much as some claim they want to wait for others to arrive, most of the time that's just talk for appearance's sake. They're more than happy to attack as soon as someone else pulls because the reality is they don't want to have to wait any longer either. If they were fine with waiting, they wouldn't attack until the hunt was almost dead.

Drop what you're doing and run. That was the advice we gave to new members of the hunt community worried about missing out even before world visit was added to the game. You cannot expect everyone else to waste their time waiting for you to arrive. That holds just as true now as it did back then.

That's the worst part about Hunts currently. I mean, the absolute dystopian levels of social interaction are a big one as well, but I shouldn't have to join a 3 party program to be in the know about hunts. Clearly, the limitations of Linkshells are showing their ugly heads again.

You don't have to be. All you need to do is go out and do the hunting yourself.

If you're not willing to do the hunting yourself, why do you think you should be entitled to the rewards?