The Hunts - Solution: Party Content in open world.

[Welsper59]

I agree with this. It was very short sighted to offer i110 gear from Hunts. I personally just want the allied seal gear. Even then you can see a flaw because it should have been i90 with set bonus, not i70... I hope in 3.0 they focus on horizontal gear improvement instead of vertical.

The intent with the AS exclusive gear is vanity. Think of the stats (i70) as a small bonus for anyone that wants it for glamour, yet might actually use it for however short of a time for whatever job. Would you feel the same way had it been a level 1 equip? Maybe not, since there would be no stats attached to it, and you wouldn't be led on by an additional carrot on a stick (stats) trying to get it.

[MeganLynn]

I have an idea, why not just have a daily cap on how many times you can kill each mark in each rank? Once you kill a mark 5 times, you cant kill it again until the next day. The cap would be for each individual mark in each individual rank. That sounds reasonable to me.

[Colt47]

I have an idea, why not just have a daily cap on how many times you can kill each mark in each rank? Once you kill a mark 5 times, you cant kill it again until the next day. The cap would be for each individual mark in each individual rank. That sounds reasonable to me.

Because there are so many people doing the hunts that the limit would do little to solve the issue. It's pretty nuts.

[Ferrasper]

I would rather have them make it to where you can purchase the oils/sands of time via Myth tomes. I think if they did this the zerg would die down allowing those who don't wish to compete like a mad man another venue of choice aside from doing SCoB.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

I would rather have them make it to where you can purchase the oils/sands of time via Myth tomes. I think if they did this the zerg would die down allowing those who don't wish to compete like a mad man another venue of choice aside from doing SCoB.

That is going to be far from a solution. The whole system is broken, that is just a patch, this system needs a complete rework, is broken beyond repair.

[Morningstar1337]

That is going to be far from a solution. The whole system is broken, that is just a patch, this system needs a complete rework, is broken beyond repair.

I partially agree. Marks give out times as well and if they were handed at the same relitive price (250) then evem MORE peopel will spam hunts becyase you can get sands.oil in less hunts using myths instead of marks.

Also the gear you need to use the time stuff on is bought with Tombstones of Soldiery not Mythology meaning that under your proposed solution, people will have instant 110 gear the moment they buy the 100

The way I see it there are four ways Hunts can be improved. The OP's way, HP scaling like FATEs, the removal of Hunt Logs or the complete and utter removal of the system and all it's rewards (including the vanity stuff like the minions) and placing the non 110 rewards in different ways of getting them (Dungeons for minions, 40000 seals for i70 gear, etc.)

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

They already tried HP scaling, did nothing xD

[TornadoFury]

no. this is the only content i even enjoy giving limits on them will just make it stupid and useless the system is fine the maps need to be bigger or you should beable to buy a item that tracks them.

[Morningstar1337]

Open world content should provide rewards proportional to the number of people it is intended to draw at one time. Unfortunately even 1 allied seal is enough to draw the whole server to a single hunt

Yeah because ppl are going out of their ways to kill low-level mobs or wating to fates for one seal

The draw is the possibility of getting more than one seal depending on if you're on a party or not

[Felessan]

They already tried HP scaling, did nothing xD

It did, and a lot. Now you can hunt reasonably well (in organized fashion) even in prime time. As A ranks have just enough time to survive until at least 20-30 ppl will gang on them. So if you get info straight away, you'll get you participation.

This is exactly what I envisioned (end hoped) hunts to be. I hope they'll change the current system into something like this. After Odin/Behemoth and now hunt, I've learned to stay away from open world content... it's simply not fun.

It's a group competion content, and game seriously lacked it from the start, Arena was uninspiring and not really balanced and cater to a very specific group of people. Odin and Bahamut was so rare that there were no point in active competition for them.
And now we have two new activity - Frontlines that is competitive PvP and Hunts that is competitive PvE.
If you don't like to actively compete with others - just leave this content alone. And as for rewards... they always go to most dedicated crowd.