A massively.com write up on why hunts are ruining this game

[Jubez187]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/07...ts-are-broken/

and reddit mirror

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ts_are_broken/

Didn't see it posted here so either it never got posted or didn't get the read it deserved.

EDIT: The "ruining" is more or less my own words. Not the words of the author.

[Ryans]

I don't see what the big deal is. We are 2 and half months away from, most likely, ilvl 130 gear that will make hunts a lot less important. Anyone that is driven away from the game will return at the next major patch just like they always do. Let people who normally can't get the best gear feel like they have a chance.

[Wolf_Gang]

I don't see what the big deal is. We are 2 and half months away from, most likely, ilvl 130 gear that will make hunts a lot less important. Anyone that is driven away from the game will return at the next major patch just like they always do. Let people who normally can't get the best gear feel like they have a chance.

You assume they're not going to do more with a brand new currency they just added to the game? I see them adding the next round of upgrade-able items to it with 2.4

[Kiara1]

You assume they're not going to do more with a brand new currency they just added to the game? I see them adding the next round of upgrade-able items to it with 2.4

You do realize this is a catchup patch for the next patch?
Thats why we get it easy, SE meant for us to get full ilvl 110 gear so we all can start doing next coil in 3 months

It's always been like that (oh no someplayers have bad gear, let's add something so that that they can catch up within a week)

like Syrcus Tower and Ramuh EX that most ouf your user base is completely ignorin

I wonder how you find out that most of them is ignoring it?
Is there some kind of site for stats like that?

When I wanna do ST I have a 3 min queue time as any class, I don't really think ppl are ignoring it, so thats why I'd like to see a source of that statement

[Ryans]

You assume they're not going to do more with a brand new currency they just added to the game? I see them adding the next round of upgrade-able items to it with 2.4

You think they are going to do it in 2.4? I highly doubt that. They change what the currency is used for every other patch.

[Vaer]

You think they are going to do it in 2.4? I highly doubt that. They change what the currency is used for every other patch.

They said they were going to add more marks, so I wouldn't assume this currency is a one shot thing.

They might decide to make the next relic upgrade a certain number of hunt logs, or kill this elite mark, or a new item that is added to the vendor, or a combination of them.

[Jubez187]

Let people who normally can't get the best gear feel like they have a chance.

If you "normally" can't get the best gear then you don't deserve it. And your logic never works, because the raiders will still flock to this content as they can get MUCH more oils/sands than they could in a 1 week lock out with 1 oil being rolled on by 8 players.

By the time of 2.1, you could farm myth all day to gear out and be just as good as anyone who run the first binding coil

And this was implicitly admitted as a design flaw seeing as Soldiery is 100 and H.Allagan is 110. And before, the only way to get i110 Soldiery was Coil

[CeeTwo]

I don't see what the big deal is. We are 2 and half months away from, most likely, ilvl 130 gear that will make hunts a lot less important. Anyone that is driven away from the game will return at the next major patch just like they always do. Let people who normally can't get the best gear feel like they have a chance.

It's not even the best gear...

A mix of that and High Allagan is the "best gear". For jobs like White Mage where the entire left side is practically High Allagan for best in slot, it's even less the case.

Either way, no self respecting coil group would take in a player with full 110 Soldiery gear and 0 High Allagan gear. And walking around in full soldiery gear is the opposite of "leet" lol...

TLDR: Who really cares about them giving away the welfare gear, they did it for 2.1 also. The real raiding gear still requires actually being good at the game.

[Nekodar]

It's not even the best gear...

A mix of that and High Allagan is the "best gear". For jobs like White Mage where the entire left side is practically High Allagan for best in slot, it's even less the case.

As a white mage, I'm considering not wasting any sands on left side... I do have scholar as well which would love to get unweathered left side, but I almost never use it...
I was going to before 2.3 just so I could dye the daystar set, but then 2.3 arrived with the divine harvest set, and I settled for glamour. Really love that set. Just missing hand and feet pieces now.

As a side-note... Thyrus Novus is within reach! Should be able to complete it tonight :3

[CeeTwo]

As a white mage, I'm considering not wasting any sands on left side... I do have scholar as well which would love to get unweathered left side, but I almost never use it...
I was going to before 2.3 just so I could dye the daystar set, but then 2.3 arrived with the divine harvest set, and I settled for glamour. Really love that set. Just missing hand and feet pieces now.

As a side-note... Thyrus Novus is within reach! Should be able to complete it tonight :3

I just finished my Thyrus Novus a week ago, I love it.

Grats on yours!