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

[Namasu]

To say that the hunt needs re-balancing is a fair statement but saying that it's ruining the game is just exaggerating. There's always some problems with new content, but if it encourages people to play the game more then it's not entirely a bad thing.

[Wolf_Gang]

To say that the hunt needs re-balancing is a fair statement but saying that it's ruining the game is just exaggerating. There's always some problems with new content, but if it encourages people to play the game more then it's not entirely a bad thing.

Getting 5 sands of time in one week. I say its pretty broken and ruins the game. People are already rocking full Elite GC set.

[Namasu]

Getting 5 sands of time in one week. I say its pretty broken and ruins the game.

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 (minus allagan weapons that were bumped to i95). It's a catch-up patch and the dev team always intend to give non-raiders more way to get oil and sand. Also, you are still limited by soldiery cap so it's not like you can go ham and full i110 for every single class.

There's nothing surprising about it. It is a little bit "too good" but to claiming that it "ruins" the game is just a bit melodramatic don't you think?

[Wolf_Gang]

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 (minus allagan weapons that were bumped to i95). It's a catch-up patch and the dev team always intend to give non-raiders more way to get oil and sand. Also, you are still limited by soldiery cap so it's not like you can go ham and full i110 for every single class.

There's nothing surprising about it. It is a little bit "too good" but to claiming that it "ruins" the game is just a bit melodramatic don't you think?

It's not always about the end reward. These features are designed with a certain pace in mind. The accelerated pacing of obtaining rewards from hunts far outweighs other content. I know I'll be right, because SE will more than likely make changes to the systems rate of reward.

also Myth still had a hard cap in 2.1

[Zarzak]

By the time of 2.1, you could farm myth all day

except there was a weekly cap.............

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

Except the people who can't do T6 or T7 in 100 will still not be able to do it in 110 since its not about stats its about following simple mechanics. Same reason people who are in 100 gear now still cry that divebombs and twisters are too hard. Because pushing the up arrow when a cast bar appears is too hard.

Quite the same (really worst) has happened to PvP player's with level sync... Every body found it fair and awesome.

Haven't heard anyone praise making the gear you gain with the pvp currency worthless... But ok.

No point in pvping unless you like filling your armory chest with more worthless gear.

[Kagari_Asuha]

except there was a weekly cap.............

Yep, it still took time to be full i90 even after they raised the cap.

[Worm]

No point in pvping unless you like filling your armory chest with more worthless gear.

Some people derive a thing called "fun" from competition. Also, desynth.

It's funny I tend to agree that the Sands and Oils should not have been on the hunt vendor at all, but when I see dour faced posters who share that opinion I sort of regret agreeing with them. I wish they hadn't done it, but I still don't see the sky falling from handing out a few loot upgrade tokens.

[BreathlessTao]

LOL...

It’s as if no one thought to double-check the numbers before setting all of this to live.

...well it is, from what I've heard, admittedly a feature that's been added as an afterthought. So to be honest, it's not even surprising.

[Shyluv]

Hunt is something that you can't put minimal effort into and still get a lot out of. So many groups have people standing afk in a zone, waiting for a train to come by and following it, and then complain when they don't get enough credit cause the rest of their group didn't get there on time.

There are websites and google docs that have the time of death per server. Ask for a link to one or ask what zones have open windows if you are unable to access the website yourself. If they say "I dunno. Pick a zone.", either pick a zone and hope for luck or leave and try to join a more organized group.

As Namasu said; it can definitely be improved, but to say it's ruining the game is exaggerating.

[Adiell]

No, it's not melodramatic. When one activity makes all the others pointless and obsolete, then it's actually doing a huge disservice to the game, especially when you spend a lot of time and effort to create content like Syrcus Tower and Ramuh EX that most ouf your user base is completely ignoring and will continue to do so. Hunts is just bad designed content, and in its current form it should have no place in such a high quality game.