The Hunt - a game breaking feature

[Geist]

Well, the lesser kind can often be tackled in reasonable time with just two players and a chocobo: this happened to me as a black mage while on Beast Tribe Quest duty, I stumbled into a warrior and her bird squaring off against a B Mark. At that level, they tend to telegraph their moves pretty clearly, so it's a fairly safe learning experience and a way to test your skills and rotations; moreover, you might have just found somebody with good party potential.

Going solo was probably easier before the patch, but it should still be OK if you're good, only a matter of time.

But yes - the situation with the top ranks is far from pretty. As ThirdChild noted above, Odin-style rushing makes these targets much less hot, provided you can even glance at them before they go poof, alongside any curiosity of yours about the way a creature fights or the skill of your companions.

IMHO, I wouldn't say it's (early) FATE all over again or just "easy money" (seals - you get the idea); to me, it's about the way people keep gaming the system. We can fix the mechanics through trial and error, it's the attitude that is disheartening.