The Hunt - a game breaking feature

[Cetonis]

I'm just getting back after a long break, so I don't know the history or dynamics here, but it sure does seem like they've made all those dungeons irrelevant.
While I appreciate the need for new level 50s to be able to catch up, I'd hate to have to tell a new lvl 50 it's best to just do hunting and ignore the rest of the game.

Would a set of changes like this be about right?

- Lower price of seal-only gear to something sane
- Increase price of i90 gear to 150-120-80 (from 40-30-20)
- Slow spawn rate of rank A elites to 6-8 hours
- Add a weekly seal cap (200-250?)
- Double the number of chests in the i60-80 drop 4-man dungeons
- Consider ilvl sync on these dungeons

I think the ideal should be for a new lvl 50 to want to run each dungeon maybe two or three times, and not be completely ezmode carried in doing so. If hunting alone got you to i90 in four weeks instead of four hours, supplementing it with dungeons / tomes could get people there in maybe two weeks or so.

[ServerCollaps]

- Increase price of i90 gear to 150-120-80 (from 40-30-20)

ilvl 90 is obsolete with 2.4 and requires no seal increase

- Add a weekly seal cap (200-250?)

thats nonsense aswell since ppl can get their sand + oil from unlimited scob + st runs with 2.4
and doing hunts for 1 sand takes more time then pug-ing t8 or killing xande

- Double the number of chests in the i60-80 drop 4-man dungeons

why?

- Consider ilvl sync on these dungeons

that would anihilate the fun of speedruns

[Niwashi]

ilvl 90 is obsolete with 2.4 and requires no seal increase

I think part of the point there was to prevent it from becoming obsolete. New players should still get to play through that part of the game. We should get to go through the whole process of collecting i55 gear, then i70 gear, then i90 gear and so on, just like players who got to that point earlier were able to. Just because some other players have already completed the earlier endgame content is no reason why newer players shouldn't get a chance to do it as well. It's only obsolete to those who have already been there, done that.

[Cetonis]

I think part of the point there was to prevent it from becoming obsolete. New players should still get to play through that part of the game. We should get to go through the whole process of collecting i55 gear, then i70 gear, then i90 gear and so on, just like players who got to that point earlier were able to. Just because some other players have already completed the earlier endgame content is no reason why newer players shouldn't get a chance to do it as well. It's only obsolete to those who have already been there, done that.

Right; I guess the core argument is that I think it'd be better if new level 50s could get 10-20 ilvl a week, instead of an instant 40 ilvl in 4 hours. That way the dungeons, HM primals, etc. could be a more relevant part of the experience (especially if they get sync'd). At the same time, they'd would still be able to catch up in a reasonable timeframe, during which they'd see steady progress, be able to do tougher dungeons etc.