Something needs to be done about Hunts.

[BrielleBeaudonet]

People keep calling The Hunt "FATEs without markers," but that's only because that's how we're treating them, and what we expect from open-world content.

Contrary to this, I believe B-rank marks are not INTENDED to be shared with the entire server.

There's an expectation here that, just like FATEs, we should all have a chance every time these monsters pop. I don't think that's a fair assessment of the system, and really, the only problem I see is that Naul and other B-ranks simply don't spawn often enough. Early reports are every hour; how about every fifteen minutes? People will stop carrying this "I deserve a kill" mentality when they happen to miss out on an appearance, and patrolling the zone--actually hunting--will be the most rewarding tactic. I certainly never envisioned telling the whole zone in chat when I saw a B-rank monster--that's my kill/luck for encountering it. There just needs to be MORE of them.

[ArashiDaigon]

The only portion I hate about the HUNT well at most the weekly guy, is that I get credit for killing him in the achievement section, but some odd reason my Mark doesn't give me credit for killing him. That's my only gripe. Please give me the flipping credit for the mark if you're going to say I killed him in the achievement.

[DeadRiser]

OP, don't worry about it. If you find it, you claim it. That's how I feel. I stopped doing them during the day because of this. Some guy pulled Naul when he popped in Coerthas. People blacklisted him and called him out. I don't see why... If you don't get full credit on the kill itself, you won't get the elite credit from what I heard.

I hate the linkshells that have spawned because of the hunt. Yeah it's nice and all but when the whole server shows up to kill a party based NM, it gets stupid fast. You get people who weren't doing anything getting pissed because the person who did the work looking for them claims it before people get there.

.... though I do think some free company on my server are using third party programs to find out where they are. A free company of only 33 people with a max of 10 people on shouldn't be finding them and being at those fights every time.

[Marxam]

Just make the A and S marks (party/alliance) bullet sponges with A getting 500k hp and S with 1 mil. B marks solo content i.e you talk to the hunt scholar he give you a hint of its location, you go there and search and it spawns for you and/or your party exclusively. Problem solved.

[Ulathskullsplitter]

.... though I do think some free company on my server are using third party programs to find out where they are. A free company of only 33 people with a max of 10 people on shouldn't be finding them and being at those fights every time.

Yep. This is what's happening. Pretty sure this is the reason parsers were officially made to be against the ToS. Because they do a lot more than parse. Like show the exact location of mobs. Which is pretty convenient when looking for NMs.

[DeadRiser]

Yep. This is what's happening. Pretty sure this is the reason parsers were officially made to be against the ToS. Because they do a lot more than parse. Like show the exact location of mobs. Which is pretty convenient when looking for NMs.

It's a shame too. I had fun doing the hunts when nobody was online and only a couple of us were actively hunting.

Now it's the same free company at every mark, usually there first. People totally take the fun out of the game.

[TeganLaron]

Hunts are fine the way they are now, abet a few minor changes.

1.) Add more random B Ranks. Increase full credit Allied Seals to 10.
2.) Increase the HP of A Ranks by 100% and Damage output by 10% and make them wander around some. Increase full credit Allied Seals to 75
3.) Make it so the S Ranks, that once spawned, Walk around the Zone, and Increase S Rank HP by 100% and Damage output by 25%. Increase full credit Allied seals to 175.

With these changes B ranks will be more so for the Solo players, while A ranks will be for the Light to Full Party, and S Ranks for the Alliance.

All the proposed Hp and Dmg changes are rough guesses on what would be a acceptible fix to the problem.

Increase seals? If anything we get far too many already. Someone I was talking to has gotten three Sands of time out of it already, and its been two days!

I like The Hunt, I really do. But they've made it horribly OP.

[Orson_Dara]

This content is broken. Now that the majority of the server is chasing hunts you don't get kills. They need to give you the ability to spawn these with friends at your own leisure. As it stands this is the worst anti-community, BM, frustrating event introduced.

Yoshi P said,

"Which reminds me, I know a lot of players have been concerned this will be like back in the day, where one player or party would claim an enemy, and lock everyone else out from getting a reward. You'll be happy to know that the Hunt was not designed with any such claiming system in mind."

This is a flat out lie! Right now many are being locked out of doing this content on a regular basis. Even when people are wanting to wait for others you still get minimal or no credit. THIS SYSTEM IS BROKEN. I'm subbed til September as is a lot of my FC and if SE doesn't stop this crazy random content and random rewards many us will be quitting. The Treasure Hunt was a great system! Why not expand on that!??

[Sprinks]

My bf found the Tonberry earlier today. When it popped, it was us and 2 other people at the monster. In less than a minute, half the server was there. I went ahead and pulled and got yelled at by someone who had just got there after it died for "pre-pulling". If you aren't looking for it, you shouldn't expect everyone to wait for you...

[DeadRiser]

This is a flat out lie!

How is it a lie? He's most probably referring to S rank. If he's referring to A rank too, he means 9-16 people, not the whole server of afkers getting the location from a hunt linkshell. People get upset because they show up after it dies and whatnot. Welp, same thing happens to fates. You get credit on what you do. But I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people getting upset because they can't get full credit on an A rank NM with half the server doing one hit each and it die in a matter of two seconds.

I'm sorry but if you find an A-rank NM and you have a party, don't hesitate to claim it and kill it. Some of them actually have fun mechanics that are bypassed by the Zerg that kills it