The Hunt - a game breaking feature

[Eddard]

LMAO, what are you all talking about hunting breaking the game and its now dead?? Do you know that the game has only been out for such a short while, and they are still changing stuff.

Did you also know that a new BIG expansion is coming around the corner (said to be as big as the original game). I don't think the game is dead by any means. I mean, SWTOR which I have stopped playing for now, is more deader than this game and it doesn't have hunts.

[Eddard]

Lastly, we need the elite Marks to be smarter. I'm thinking back to FFXII; there was always a situational factor or an attack pattern to surprise you. Top Marks required good planning and some luck; another thing FFXII did right was that you would always gather fragments of lore along the way.

Having marks be somewhat a challenge would make hunting worse I think. Trying to coordinate with a gigantic group of people to do things (noobslayer) isn't going to work AT ALL! Not to mention some marks cause extreme lag because of the amount of people the screen and whatnot, you wouldn't be moving in time or doing something in time to avoid death attacks. Or something that wipes the group because you failed to do something. This is part where half the area is calling each other noobs, idiots, swear words I won't say on here, etc.. NO ONE wants to be nice and helpful to go into a pug hunt.

[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?

[Mindylou]

Zyrusticae, marry me

[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?

[OpercivalAurora]

I miss the days when people farmed primals. Now all that's on the pf is for hunts and coils.

[FriendlyUncle]

Take Myth and Soldiery out of the Hunt rewards and slightly increase the Allied Seals you get from kills. Killing Marks will still be worth the time but the entire rest of the game will no longer be obsolete.

This won't fix the issue imo. I mean no offense by that, this is just how I see it mind you. You can get i90 from Allied Seals as well at a fairly low rate it would liven up Expert Roulette dungeons at most. They need to take a serious look at the purchasable rewards, really. Most people are zerging hunts to gear up a secondary class with gear once exclusive to Myth, upgrade their Sol gear or Zodiac weapon, or Alexandrite for Animus. Other than that there are some vanity gear (basically), minions, and tiny convenience items like Ventures or Aetheryte tickets.

IMO it would go much further to remove Alexandrite and the ability to purchase Sands/Oil with Logs as a way of curbing the zerg. Zerg content = bad content. Alternatively change this system to something similar to voidwatch. You can buy a spawn item with Allied Seals attained from Daily/Weekly hunts, kill said mob, maybe have a chance of receiving a new spawn item alongside some rewards, AS, and gil. That new spawn item could be used to spawn one of three new mobs. Allow FCs to spend credits to purchase spawn items for more difficult sets. Enemies spawned can only be engaged by party or alliance that spawned them, similar to treasure maps and leves.

[FriendlyUncle]

LMAO, what are you all talking about hunting breaking the game and its now dead?? Do you know that the game has only been out for such a short while, and they are still changing stuff.

Did you also know that a new BIG expansion is coming around the corner (said to be as big as the original game). I don't think the game is dead by any means. I mean, SWTOR which I have stopped playing for now, is more deader than this game and it doesn't have hunts.

The original release was also mostly shit. Hunts are bad because it is a mindless zerg. There are no tactic and strategy involved. It is just throwing as many bodies at the mark as there are in the zone. It is not fun. It is not engaging. It is poorly designed.