Naul is a nightmare; How to avoid this in the future?

[Alacran]

The problem really is how people are treating each other. I know i personally found Naul yesterday, in trying to hold for more people to come get the mark we were only able to hold for less than a minute.
What happened after that can only be described as the most violent slaughter of a NM i had ever seen, i mean really the damn thing was dead in less than two seconds. Of course as i was typing out the enemy position i was unable to target the enemy in time and lost my chance. I only got my mark when some seven hours later i chanced on the area and was able to get a piercing talon in and get completion.
As stated above Elite marks need to have higher than average HP pools if for nothing more so more people are able to participate.

[Moqi]

This is why I'm staying away from elite marks. Open world content is way too frutrating to keep up with to be fun.

I hope they'll make them spawnable by map/object and beatable by a full party/alliance, but exclusive like leve mobs are. Cap it weekly (or just the extra rewards), but anyone can get a map.

[KamikazeMan]

I advise NOT go to after the weekly target. It's not like you get a lot more seals/tomes for them anyway. You're better off hunting other B, A, and S rank targets.

[KingOfAbyss]

Even with LS, by the time you or someone calls for help, giving them the chance to read it, stop what they were doing if they can, teleport, summon mount, get to the <pos> lol

Even within 2 yalms away, if you see it, you need to jump on it else it's gone.

Nothing fun in there, specially after counting we might need about on average hmm.. 10000 allied seals for glamour, minions, alexandrites, books of blood something to convert as sand and oil of time, etc..

I liked the idea, and I understand a bounty hunt is free-for-all; for sure they will take our pleads and adjust, hopefully sooner than next patch.

[RaquelleAvarosa]

I haven't started on doing Hunts yet but from what I heard from my friends, the LS for Hunts are getting very toxic and lotsa hate going on because the monsters are dead too fast.
I would suggest that SE buff the HP of the monsters to scale with the amount of participants like they did with FATEs.

[Orophin]

I'd be ok with them being S rank only if they had the opportunity to spawn multiple times per day. As it is right now, we don't know the exact spawn conditions (rather how often they can spawn) whereas the B rank ones seem to be up at least every hour or so. People have different playing schedules and SE need to account for that, unlike what happens for Behemoth and Odin.

[Zarzak]

I'd be ok with them being S rank only if they had the opportunity to spawn multiple times per day. As it is right now, we don't know the exact spawn conditions (rather how often they can spawn) whereas the B rank ones seem to be up at least every hour or so. People have different playing schedules and SE need to account for that, unlike what happens for Behemoth and Odin.

How rare does it seem they are? Haven't done much with hunts yet due to working during the week. Reason I ask is if it was "kill any S rank" for the weekly then even if they spawned once every 10 hours with there being 13-14 zones there would be one up SOMEWHERE every hour at least. And with a whole week to get it there shouldn't be much trouble.

[Orophin]

How rare does it seem they are? Haven't done much with hunts yet due to working during the week. Reason I ask is if it was "kill any S rank" for the weekly then even if they spawned once every 10 hours with there being 13-14 zones there would be one up SOMEWHERE every hour at least. And with a whole week to get it there shouldn't be much trouble.

Honestly couldn't tell you as I haven't seen one yet. Other people I know who don't work or whatever that are playing all day saw maybe 3 or 4 yesterday. Would need to know the next spawn occurrence of those same ones to get an idea of how often they appear. If you go by the flavor text from the Hunter Heralds, some of them have some potentially creative spawn conditions as well. One mentions it attacks fishermen, another is attracted to the smell of cooking, (Culinarian) but who knows how long it takes for them to reappear once they've shown up.

[Asael]

Make it so it literally takes a mob to take it down, at least until the interest dies down. At that point you can patch as needed.

Completely agree.

Just downed Naul about 20 minutes ago, that thing is super squishy for an elite mark and has very low hp. I was able to hit it maybe once from the time it was agro'd to the time it died. That alone is a very horrible way of implementing this thing. Considering there are no tracking mechanics and zero lore on this thing to hint where and when you can find it the difficulty of coming across it is pretty far out (also considering Coerthas is a very large zone). It took 3 full parties of searching assigned areas for about 2 hours before we finally found it. That paired with the mobs low defense and hp makes this whole thing counter intuitive. I can only imagine what a head ache this would be trying to go at it solo or in a small party.

Given all this the reward rates for elite marks with the pricing for allied items is absolutely absurd. 20-25 allied seals per week does not justify the amount of trouble it takes to complete the elite mark. Especially when relevant items like alexandrite or mark logs cost 200+ allied seals. Very horrible system concerning the elite marks IMO. Frankly it's less of a pain and more practical to just do the normal marks.

[Welsper59]

I just avoid setting the goal of doing it so early into the patch. Save myself the trouble and focus on other aspects of the newly introduced content, some of which does involve hunting non-mark elites from time to time. I guarantee that within the next month or so, it'll become a lot easier to hunt down the targeted mark. Part of the reason being that I don't think a lot of people realize that every zone has a B/A/S rank elite in them, and the reward for just killing them greatly outweighs the reward for the mark.