"adjustments related to elite marks"

[Nukocafe]

this past evening I decided to finally try to get that stupid Naul mark out of my inventory since it was sitting there for 2 weeks.
I gathered a party of friends and shouted in Coerthas and invited 2 more people so it was about 6 of us. We spent an hour looking for him and finally one of us saw the spawn.


Unfortunately a hoarde of people got there and while we asked to wait, I guess they couldn't wait long enough for us to get across the giant map that is Coerthas.
By the time half of us got there, it was down to 25% and thankfully my BLM, the other BLM and the bard managed to throw in a few hits while our tank who got there earlier spammed flash & overpower so we got full credit.
Sadly, the monk in our party didn't make it. He was so bummed out, as he also had this mark for 2 weeks that he decided to drop it and just quit doing hunts.
I felt really bad for him and it further made me realize how NOT FUN this current system is. The 1 hour I spent walking around doing nothing I could have done a roulette, or went fishing or made some crafts. Even when you work together and try your best, this is the outcome.

Until they increase the dailies I think I will stay away from this system. I guess those who like to spend hours chasing enemies trying to beat the zerg can have fun but it's just not for me. I don't think we'll see a real hunt change until 2.35 I'm afraid.

Please turn them into FATEs, please turn them into FATEs, ...

1) It would let everyone see where it is
2) Lots of people would instantly stop doing the hunt, because of their FATE hatred
3) Elite marks piggyback on the FATE system already anyway

They already have fates for the daily hunts but that crap takes hours and hours to spawn that it becomes not worth doing

[Ryans]

Make the Rank A and S behave like the last boss in Stone Vigil HM; make them capable of calling for aid/summoning adds.
Limit logs to 3 per week and cap Allied Seals earned weekly to 2000.

I understand what you are trying to do, but why would they limit the amount of logs you can get per week to 3 and cap allied seals? There is no reason to restrict peoples' ability to obtain minions and items for glamour.

[DarkStar]

I understand what you are trying to do, but why would they limit the amount of logs you can get per week to 3 and cap allied seals? There is no reason to restrict peoples' ability to obtain minions and items for glamour.

Then just make it so the Minions and Glamour gear don't require Logs; Soldiery tomes have a pretty strict cap as well, so I don't see why an even MORE useful currency shouldn't have a similarly strict (if not stricter!) cap. Regardless, the items the zerg are REALLY after (The Oils and Sands) can only be gotten once a week this way (unless you save up to get a bunch at once, but then you're STILL limited to how fast you can get them), at best. As a result, the Zerg SHOULD settle down a bit.

[PixelPirate]

Please turn them into FATEs, please turn them into FATEs, ...

1) It would let everyone see where it is
2) Lots of people would instantly stop doing the hunt, because of their FATE hatred
3) Elite marks piggyback on the FATE system already anyway

This! And please oh please make them actually um... wuts the word I'm searching for.... ELITE!? as in actually HARD mebby?

[Nekodar]

This! And please oh please make them actually um... wuts the word I'm searching for.... ELITE!? as in actually HARD mebby?

Anything becomes easy when you zerg it...
Either way, they have mechanics that open world normal mobs don't have and require more people... So they are elite compared to normal.

[Taaku]

I would personally like it if they where somewhat like leves. but instead of just activating it. you had to find where the monster "is". like there'd be a spawn point somewhere on the map, which requires you to hunt it down. spawning it with said key item would make you have 100% credit if you kill it. After killing a mark , you wouldn't be able to re-obtain that leve until its "spawn" is back up. so for each B or A rank everyone would have however long the respective mark would take to re-spawn to find/pop and kill it.

S ranks can stay open world. i just feel like you should get confirmation of some sort if your accurately preforming an action to spawn it. maybe like "you feel a monsterous gaze on you." or something that indicates your right at least. though it wouldn't tell you when it spawned.

[TheRac25]

when there is problem in this game, don't expect it to be fix in 1-2 week, they don't know how to do that
wait until next patch

my bet is that they just change the render priority that all they gonna do

speaking just about the PC version, i dunno what the number is on other versions but its probably very similar
currently the game has a static limit of 244 players and mobs displayed at once, they share the same group (lumped into one pile so to speak)
the method used to pick which ones the client gets to see is by proximity
this really has nothing to do with a render priority as youve got nothing to render, the problem is players and mobs being treated as the same class

[TheRac25]

"adjustments related to elite marks"

my hope is adjustments to the ridiculous 24 hour no pop with 72 hour window on S ranks, but thats just wishful thinking on my part
since they are being so coy about it, a better geuss would be, probably a nerf is coming, weekly cap?

[Rosekitten]

Weekly cap of 4k seals it looks like.. here I got hopeful that they would make the hunt board useful and up the rewards from it.. wishful thinking I suppose.. Not sure how a 4k cap really solves much.

edit: actually im a dumb.. don't type so early in the morning ^^

[Chocolate_Rain]

Weekly cap of 4k seals it looks like.. here I got hopeful that they would make the hunt board useful and up the rewards from it.. wishful thinking I suppose.. Not sure how a 4k cap really solves much.

Where do you see this?