Discussion on Solutions to the Current Issues of Elite Marks

[NinjaTaru72]

The only 2 items I really want at the moment are a sand and my mini succubis. Which I'm guessing is most people's aim. Give it a few weeks. The elite grinders will have everything they want and then some. The slightly more hardcore guys(this is me on certain days) will have the few items they want within a couple months. If not sooner. Then the casuals(me on days I don't feel like doing alot) will have things within 6 months, maybe longer for the ones that don't play as often. But it'll drastically decline within the first 2 months.

[ChriZirhC]

Here is what I mentioned in one of the threads about this issue..

just put a limit on the number players that can get a reward from the elite monsters. for example: if they dont change the difficulty of them they can make:
B - only the first 4 players can get the reward
A - first 10?
S - first 20-50? not sure..

that will definitely prevent the whole server from zoning and set a timer on when to kill and have the whole population go toxic because someone didnt follow the timer. its a hunt for cying out loud. should be finder's keepers!

[ChriZirhC]

OR they could put a cap on allied seals that players can get per day which would reduce the zergs but might not work since hunts reward a lot of myth too

[silentwindfr]

i repost here this, it was posted in another subject.

an example of what can be done for make it grand, because this feature have the potential for be something amazing!!

- get ride of the rank B monster, solo monster is a nice idea but miss totally the point, the solo part of the hunt must come from the daily contract!
- add at least 5-6 monster per area between rank A and S.
- rework the whole system of the bounty for make them use the leves system, for make short, your will use your leves for buy bounty that will be your and by the way, get ride of the daily system in general. the leves limitation is far more than enough for control how much people can get.
- add back the leves of group and guild, giving stuff to do in group and use them for add more hunt! like this the people that don't like the claim system will be able to have some hunt that can be really demanding and ask more organisation. more important will allows group to decide when to hunt or not!
- and the most important, change the price of the reward, to have the i70 gear cost more than the i90 gear by so much is silly!!!!

for resume all:
the daily and weekly bounty are changed into bounty that can be take by using your leves authorization. adding back the system of the group leves or guild leves that will add more deepth to the hunt.
the Rank B target are take out, only Rank A or S stay in the game and them number are increase to 5-6 per region.
make the price of the reward... logical!

make this change and already the hunt will please far more people, everyone will find the hunt that they want and when they want it.

ps: another idea interesting, change the reward from the FATE with boss and instead of the GC seal, give use the hunt mark. after all they are prey that need to be hunted!

[Giantbane]

I'm pretty sure you can hunt the previous week's hunt if you don't accept the hunt for the new week (daily marks work like this). So if you want to kill Naul, you've got a better chance if you wait till maybe thurs or so of next week to do it when everybody will flock after the new weekly hunt.

It's not the best ever solution, but it can help given the current system.

[Morningstar1337]

I have an idea regarding the resetting problem, when ever a mark gets to the invulnerable phase, several phased NPC will appear and kill the team that got the Mark to the phase. the NPCs will be based on location:

• Black Shroud: Gridania's authorities, since hunting is a little like poaching (And poaching a big no-no by the Elemental's Will)
• Coerthas: Isgardians, since the marks there are dragons, they will accuse the alliance of being heretics by deliberately leading the dragons to their strongholds
• Thanalan: Brass Blades. because they wants the marks too. Having a corrupt greedy police force kill hunters would make quite the commentary
• La Noscea: Pirates natch, they would want the bounty but unlike the brass blades, would wait unless the players did something scrupulous
• Mor Dhorna: Garlean Invaders, because they don't like adventurers and because they want to study the marks for their personal benefit.

Also the GCs would make it illegal for marks to be pulled out of their zone, setting them up to kill those that do (with the flames having the lowest chance of replacing the blades, and the Adder having the highest chance of replacing the authorities, both for rater obvious reasons)

[blackcitadel9]

I'm actually not sure what to do to fix the hunt problem really. I agree that the rewards are key factor in the current zergrush style of play at the moment and that the daily/weekly marks are possibly the most useless part of the system. For myself, I'm not interested sands or oils. The stat boost isn't really important to me and I'm geared enough to play any content that's out (groups for said content are a different story) I just want the minions. I was looking forward to the Hunt being a viable source of some extra Alexandrite in addition to the others methods, but at current it's just high level FATEs. Just without the blue circles and no sense of what's going on with RNG on top.

I think the first step is to alter daily/weekly marks to make them less....vestigial. The second might be to alter or extend the Company leve system so that it awards some Allied seals too, allowing a mechanic that already exists to get some attention and making leve quests useful at endgame again, except as an enforced action you take as part of Trial of the Braves

[Sarlazzar]

I think currently the daily hunt mark bill is completely worthless, maybe increase the reward on that much higher, so not everyone and their mother is on hunt all the time

[HumsterMKX]

I think currently the daily hunt mark bill is completely worthless, maybe increase the reward on that much higher, so not everyone and their mother is on hunt all the time

If they increase mark bills, what makes you think ppl wouldn't do hunt at all.

Mark bills increase would be meant to help causal players, that I would agreed. But in the end, it would be the hardcores that benefit from it more.

[Kardayel]

I'm pretty sure you can hunt the previous week's hunt if you don't accept the hunt for the new week (daily marks work like this). So if you want to kill Naul, you've got a better chance if you wait till maybe thurs or so of next week to do it when everybody will flock after the new weekly hunt.

It's not the best ever solution, but it can help given the current system.

Nha, i had Naul previous week, kill it today, can't take this week prey (maybe it's again Naul on my server, i don't know)