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

[Felessan]

The notion that "Casuals don't care about hunts" is kind of silly. Casuals DO care, we just avoid it because it's a giant drama zergfest ran by people who spend multiple hours constantly checking spread sheets and ensuring that they have a monopoly on most of the marks.

Most casuals just avoid it as being too heavy and too taxing, same as Coil and other end-game content.

Party Finder its empty, make the other content obsolete...
Hunts are destroying the complete lv 50 game.

This is a common cry from people who just suck at competition games. Now even B marks widely left over for "casual crowd" as most hardcore hunters moved onto window camping strategy and just camp A marks (and often just leave and rest if there is a long window between spawn).

Why not have Sands right away in ST? Also they can put Marked Logs in the 4th chest of ST for the entire alliance to roll on.

Because you know, ST can be done in half-AFK and require little to zero efforts. Alliance should be bad beyond measure to actually fail ST. And still - we got stone&oil there and at some point of time sands will be added too.

Why not have Sands/Oil/Logs be sold for Wolf Marks?

Because PvP has nothing with PvE?

Why have i100 items drop from Ramuh EX?

Because Ramuh, same as with Moogle Ex, is for BiS crowd and weapon is just a nice addition for offspecs. Moogle Ex have the same ilvl100 as unweathered soldiery stuff and there were way less people who did it compared to Levi, mostly those who go for the kill or who wants something better than crappy soldiery neck item.