Please make hunts like leves/treasure maps!

[Nep_Nep]

I agree. I think they should be made like Treasure maps. Maybe they could work like Dailies. At least for S rank ones. Maybe B and A could be bought with alot of seals and Myth? But I was thinking you get one from doing a roulette(or buying it) go to the area the map tells you then fight the monster. B rank could recommend one member. A rank could be 4 and S could be 8. People could get their seals and stop fighting over claiming, pulling, etc. They'd all have their own hunt monster to kill. Instead of it looking like a treasure map it could look like a wanted poster. Since you're hunting.

Sorry if the idea is stupid. But I agree. I think them at least being somewhat difficult treasure maps could help. People could still call for help and enjoy the open world and stuff.

[AmyNeudaiz]

There's a very simple way it can work - you go out and get your mark papers like you do now but it leads you to a location (similar to maps) and you kill your Mark. No more competition. No more cheating. No more frustration.

B rank - Solo
A rank - Light Party
S rank - Full Party

[Ronyx]

There's a very simple way it can work - you go out and get your mark papers like you do now but it leads you to a location (similar to maps) and you kill your Mark. No more competition. No more cheating. No more frustration.

B rank - Solo
A rank - Light Party
S rank - Full Party

Yeah circle the map area where we need to find the mark. Give more seals and limit the amount of papers we can get, maybe 2 per day and 1 weekly with bigger rewards. This will end the war and avoid that the community get more toxic than they are now.

[Hyrist]

Something that I've noticed - you could activate a hunt like a Leve and still need to search the entire area for a monster, and it would still have the feeling of going out and looking for a monster. You can even add a time limit to add an element of pressure to the hunt.

With a similar Leve system, you can also implement behaviors to the monster, like, it fleeing to reinforcements, or needing to be lured or trapped.

If you wanted to make it competitive, you could even have a competitive style hunt that would give rewards to all participants, but greater/bonus rewards to the one who successfully 'trapped' the elite mark.

This would be a far better solution than the current version, and could actually make hunts a fun activity that isn't toxic to the community. Unfortunately, the system as it is, just can't sustain the interest the rewards generate.

[Stanelis]

You can not have a competitive open world mob with such a large community. It just doesn't work!
If it were XI or 1.0 XIV then it would be manageable but this community is too large for these hunts to be free for all.

The silliest thing is that the leve system would have been perfect for hunts.

[Tupsi]

Back in my day, we had a system in FFXIV called Faction Leves, which would pit us against NMs and "wanted" targets. Sadly though, people say FFXIV 1.0 and 1.23 did absolutely nothing correct.

[Hyrist]

Back in my day, we had a system in FFXIV called Faction Leves, which would pit us against NMs and "wanted" targets. Sadly though, people say FFXIV 1.0 and 1.23 did absolutely nothing correct.

People say a lot of things. It's best not to consider Hyperbole the actual course of conversation. The primary argument against 1.23 is that it ran on an broken system that was re-rigged to cater to an audience of roughly 30-60k people. The game now plays host to a potential over 2 million.

I liked Faction Leves. I do feel, however that Grand Company Leves did a good job of approximating some of these.

For Elite Marks to function like Faction Leves, however, would be a good idea.

[Eriatarka12]

Back in my day, we had a system in FFXIV called Faction Leves, which would pit us against NMs and "wanted" targets. Sadly though, people say FFXIV 1.0 and 1.23 did absolutely nothing correct.

If it was doing things correct it wouldn't have been shut down. That's the end of it, really.

[Felis]

If it was doing things correct it wouldn't have been shut down. That's the end of it, really.

Faction leve were more interesting than the nomal leves. They were like the salt in the soup.
Now without them we have only boring leves in ARR.

[Welsper59]

If it was doing things correct it wouldn't have been shut down. That's the end of it, really.

If you choose to ignore everything about a game that no longer exists (in its original form), regardless of any working features and functions it may have had, then you're just shortsighted/narrow minded. That's like looking back at any failed business (see Blockbuster) and saying that because it failed, everything about it is automatically bad. A business that dealt with people paying to rent things? Dumbest idea ever... amirite?