The Hunt - a game breaking feature

[Zyrusticae]

The situation on Balmung has become beyond awful.

A-ranks being pulled basically 5 seconds after they spawn. Absolutely zero chance of anyone getting in on it who wasn't basically already on top of the mob when it spawned. Of course, this is by intended design, but what's not intended is the incredible amount of rage and indignation from the hundreds (yes, HUNDREDS) of other players who couldn't get in on the prize. It basically creates a massive source of inequity, and as we should all know VERY well by now, any inequity that is seen as unjustified will cause immense amounts of social unrest.

And really, who wants to spend hours running around all over the bloody place getting absolutely nothing for their efforts because of circumstances beyond their control? Ugh, it's just disgusting all around. This could have been foreseen by anyone with a lick of sense, ESPECIALLY after seeing the inclusion of the logs as drops and purchases. It's insane.

I've spewed loads of bile over this failed "feature" and it seems I will continue to be spewing untold amounts of bile for a huge amount of time to come, unless they actually FIX things in 2.35. There is literally no feature in all of FFXIV's long history, not even the horribly laggy interface or the crazy vendor system from 1.0, that caused me this much sheer rage and hatred. There are things that make me throw up my hands and go "oh, well!", but this is the ONLY thing that makes me actually want to gouge out someone's eyes and throw them into the abyss for producing such a travesty.

Please fix, kthx~

[paradigmfellow]

The situation on Balmung has become beyond awful...

Hunts were the nail in the coffin for me. The grinding in this game has become unbearable. Also, the PF in Balmung was nothing but hunt parties (at the time I quit the game).

[Sawamura]

ilvl don´t really matter. People still wipe at titan extreme and T5.

[Nicobo]

ilvl don´t really matter. People still wipe at titan extreme and T5.

That meana they need more ilvl , it does matter apparently. ^^;

[EricCartmenez]

That meana they need more ilvl , it does matter apparently. ^^;

Yeah, cause we know that if you have the highest iLVL there's no way that you will wipe in the Navel EX or T5... Or do we?

[Nicobo]

Yeah, cause we know that if you have the highest iLVL there's no way that you will wipe in the Navel EX or T5... Or do we?

the point is iLV keeps increasing,
do you remember a lot of ppl wipe at Titan-HM when DarkLight(i70) was the highest iLV? ^^;
Why someone will think for example i170 still doesn't matter?

[Mindylou]

Zyrusticae, marry me