Suggestion For Making Hunts Better

[Nomuno]

Hunts are a great idea for people to engage in group events. However, there is no type of karma in this game to prevent griefing. My suggestion to encourage fair play is as follows:

The Named Mark should have a large aura around it so when anyone walks within the Marks aura, they will receive a stacking buff. When a certain period of time passes while the player is in the Aura, say every 30 seconds, the stacking buff increases. At the same time, the Named Mark will receive a counter stacking buff based on how long people are within its large aura.

As the stacks increase on the Named Mark, it will have a stronger defense, making all attacks weaker towards it, up to a reasonable threshold. The Players stacking buff will give them better rewards after the Named Mark is defeated. This would in turn promote a reward for people to wait before pulling, allowing ample time for others to join.

[Nomuno]

Also for this to work, the Named Mark would need to be a Priority Mob, so that it doe not disappear on the playing field, similar to how you fixed Odin and Behemoth

[HumsterMKX]

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As the stacks increase on the Named Mark, it will have a stronger defense, making all attacks weaker towards it, up to a reasonable threshold.

The Players stacking buff will give them better rewards after the Named Mark is defeated.

This would in turn promote a reward for people to wait before pulling, allowing ample time for others to join.

Once it hit the reasonable threshold, it will still be zerged down. Right now, HUNTs is like going out to hunt a lion, once the lion is spotted we get ppl calling in Air Strikes and Orbital bombardment finally Exterminatus before moving to another planet (>...>

If only there are way to control the whole zergfest.

[Vahlnir]

Once it hit the reasonable threshold, it will still be zerged down. Right now, HUNTs is like going out to hunt a lion, once the lion is spotted we get ppl calling in Air Strikes and Orbital bombardment finally Exterminatus before moving to another planet (>...>

If only there are way to control the whole zergfest.

lol...yeah, this is pretty accurate. Any HP/damage/stat scaling would have to be done at an almost infinite level, considering how many people you have at any given B, A or S rank during peak hours.

[TornadoFury]

for each attack a different player mob on said hunt the amount of tombs is increased. b rank =.25 myth per player attacking it. a= .65 s 1.00.

[Tirade]

As the stacks increase on the Named Mark, it will have a stronger defense, making all attacks weaker towards it, up to a reasonable threshold. The Players stacking buff will give them better rewards after the Named Mark is defeated. This would in turn promote a reward for people to wait before pulling, allowing ample time for others to join.

I think this is a great idea. Having the mob scale with the number of targets on it, is great, as long as it calculates the scaling before enough people zerg it down.

[Valmar]

the only way to fix Hunts is to change them completely. or do what SE is doing and put a Band-Aid on it like they did with the HP increases. and wait until people lose interest in it over time.

[UndergroundLair]

I think it's pretty clear that something needs to be done. While I can certainly appreciate that hunts were added in response to to players' requests for more open-world content, hunts so far have become increasingly toxic, causing individual players to be flamed and blacklisted at the slightest provocation and dividing the community as a whole.

The problem has always been rooted in the rewards associated with hunting. Gear is everything to many people so of course there will be bickering over something that rewards better gear but must be shared among so many. To nerf rewards at this point would be unfair to players who haven't participated in the hunts because they don't want to deal with how terrible some players are being to others right now.

The real solution almost has to be something like what is suggested here. I love the idea of adding incentive for waiting for others to show up--I think you're really onto something. Here's hoping they fix the hunts soon.