The fundamental problem with hunts

[ChiefCurrahee]

People that are on the path of upgrading to animus and novus require myth to purchase books (animus) and alexandrite (novus) the fastest way to amass myth is by hunts, this goes for soldiery as well.

It might not be the #1 reason to do hunts (bloody hunting logs = sands/oil). Basically you kill 3 birds with 1 stone. it's:

UNBALANCED.

this is the reason why you see 100+ people zerging from zone to zone. You get allied seals, myth and soldiery all in 1 shot.

If people aren't doing hunts for myth and soldiery (I don't mean solely for myth/soldiery) then what is the harm in removing it?

oh wait.....

that means people will have to do something else for main/alternate gear progression....

Take away myth and soldiery, and people will have to at some point move over to other content to obtain the gear to actually use their sands/oil on.

[PixelPirate]

UNBALANCED.

And ridiculous.

It's as if nobody in Square Enix tested this content or put any serious thought into it. Oh and it reintroduced the type of abuse and manipulation by third party software we've been trying to avoid since 2002 in FFXI. It was a giant step backwards and yes, I'm holding my breath for this patch, but if history serves -- I stand a good chance of being disappointed. This has totally blown the doors off of myth and oils, while at the same time alienating a huge portion of the fan base who thought we were all past this kind of archaic game design.

[Yukiko]

People that are on the path of upgrading to animus and novus require myth to purchase books (animus) and alexandrite (novus) the fastest way to amass myth is by hunts, this goes for soldiery as well.

You can buy alexandrite direct, capping myth with beginner bonus each day anyway, no need to trade in hunting seals...

1st randomness:
If you camp one monster for your achivements its nearly impossible to get it.

2nd cooldown:
The whole server is killing the monsters in rotation because there is no alternative, way too long cooldown for respawn and just one spawns on the whole map.

3rd rewards:
To add new currency and let them begin with the "trading into all" was a bad idea, normally you can trade in old currency to the new one!
Lets say the new one becomes now the main source we can trade to everything (shouldnt that be GIL and the AH?) then lets trade the other currency to the new one...

4th spawn:
In 1.x we had nearly instant respawn on roaming high monsters who made the paths dangerous... thats what we asked for.
Later on they set those monsters offroad, so that you can not be killed when following the path... was a good addition, we could live with.
And finally, they added them on 1.x huntings where you summon the monsters when you have the guildleve for it, bad idea, but still better than we have now.