Stays up until 1:30A.M. to read about change to Hunts

[Kaizersan]

The only thing they are going to change is make dailies give more allied notes to allow soloers to actually earn a decent amount.

[Donjo]

You should have saw it coming they already announced they were planning on doing this.

They also announced that they would increase the seals on Daily Hunt bills and adjust the actual Elite Marks in further ways than increasing their HP. The oddity in this is that the previous change to Elite Marks, the increasing of HP and the attempt to make S Marks render with priority, was not foreshadowed in its maintenance by a direct statement that Elite Marks or the Hunt would be adjusted. The fact that this maintenance did, but essentially did nothing to address problems with the Hunt that SE actually acknowledges the existence of and only made a single adjustment otherwise, is absolutely strange.

I knew it was something like that. They said they'd change "elite marks," not how hunts work. "elite marks" are simply the weekly thing. The wording was pretty clear.

The wording was not pretty clear. The "Weekly (Elite) Mark Bill" and the freely huntable "Elite Marks" are separate components of the same system. The wording suggested that adjustments would be made to the former, not the latter.

[Gramul]

I just want to see what I'm fighting.

Also for people to chill out over this claiming nonsense.

What type of hotfix do you hope addresses this

Skyrise the cost of teleports to a heafty chunk of your will and reason.

[Kyana]

The following change has been made to “The Hunt”.

The Elite Mark Bill has been adjusted so that when it is updated the same monster will not be the targeted mark two weeks in a row.

So, the hunt is now officially fixed?

[Thayos]

So, the hunt is now officially fixed?

Yep, good as new!

I've seen lots of concern over possible adjustments such as weekly caps on seals, mainly from people who didn't want to get left behind because they didn't choose to zerg the hunts already. Well, GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE PEOPLE!!! You can now choose to start zerging hunts whenever you're good and ready, with no fear of the opportunity being taken away!

[xNuggetJack3dx]

The following change has been made to “The Hunt”.

The Elite Mark Bill has been adjusted so that when it is updated the same monster will not be the targeted mark two weeks in a row.

[Lord_Zlatan]

Wait till September when the youngins are back in school

[Dwill]

Hunts are going to cost them so many subscribers that they'll have to do something eventually. I've been playing MMOs for 15 years. In any MMO I've ever played, if they make gearing up easy and dull, people quit. These games are all about chasing the carrot at the end of the stick. You can't give the whole playerbase a barrel full of carrots and expect them to still care.

When everyone and their grandmother is 110, the population will take a dive. That's when the real patch notes will come out, but by then it'll be too late.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

Now if only more people could actually acknowledge this.

[Black91CRX]

The only thing they are going to change is make dailies give more allied notes to allow soloers to actually earn a decent amount.

I was hoping that's what the maintenance was for. Sigh.

[PixelPirate]

HUNTS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOSHI? SQUARE ENIX??? What is the problem here? You can't see that this is a problem? Address it and stop acting like Square Enix circa 2003 about this. I came back to FFXIV because of how Yoshida was so responsive to the player base. In fact, I was beginning to feel that he was giving the players too much power. But this, when it is the most needed time to make a real change, ---- nothing. What is this?