The Hunt - a game breaking feature

[AngaratoSvartberg]

Completely agree.

Myth and soldiery have no place in hunts. remove those rewards. and nerf allied seals given
B rank 5.
A rank 10.
S rank 25.
that's IT.

ATM it takes 1! S rank to almost completely gear out your character to ilvl90. why bother doing dungeons or trails or anything else for that matter?

[Black91CRX]

People are hunting so much to get il110. Simply cap logs and the zerg will die down.

[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?

[Mindylou]

Zyrusticae, marry me

[TomTom1968]

On Ragnarok, the only way to successful hunting is doing it under the week in the early morning hours. Since I work under the week, it is a no go for me sadly. I saw it working last week when I had holidays and now, back at work, I miss it. Even the weekends aren't working anymore and right now there are Summer Holidays in Germany's schools so I assume that many kids are up early for hunting.

From 10 AM on, you can forget hunting. Nobody waits, A mobs are pulled in under a minute after spawn from a single group and they do not even shout the location so they can get everything. Why will always be beyond me. If you are in a full group, you will get full credit even if everybody just lands 2-3 hits.

Reminds me about the times where the only chance to get some Fleece or Apkaullu eggs was to get up really early on the weekend. If you have a Life outside of FF and can't play over the day during week, the Hunt is also not to your favor.

[JonBigwood]

I think people are exaggerating a bit with the complaints about hunts. It's true you can get the sands and oils of time that previously were a Second Coil difficult drop, but it really was too difficult to get them when there was no Syrcus Tower drop nor hunts. Ilvl 110 soldiery gear shouldn't be super difficult to obtain, there's the High Allagan gear from Second Coil that is better.

You need to buy an ilvl100 gear with soldiery tomes with a weekly 450 cap and then obtain the sands of time with hunts to upgrade. This means a lot of hunts for 750 allied seals. 1300 soldiery tomes plus an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone are needed for an ilvl100 weapon, then the sands to upgrade. Not quick. Gearing ilvl110 now is not easier than gearing ilvl90 when there was a 450 myth tomes cap some time ago. And at that time the best gear was ilvl90 from Coil (that had a weekly limit too and was the most difficult fight available.) What I mean is that it's not super easy to get the ilvl110 gear, in fact it's a bit more difficult than it was to get the ilvl90 gear when it was the equivalent to the ilvl110 now.

I think things are getting better in fact. The atma grind was worse, the myth farming for animus books was worse than the alexandrite farming. As you (a generic you) didn't need to spend all your playing time farming atmas nor needed to spend all your time doing SR Brayflox HM, you don't need to spend all your playing time doing hunts. But the fact is hunts are the easiest way to get the sands of time so some hunt time is nearly needed for gearing up.

Not that I find the hunts especially fun nor I like arriving late and seeing the mark is dead many times, or being unable to see it or tag it. But better than atma farming (or waiting for hours to a FATE spawn for a book), for sure. And people keep doing a lot of other things, not just hunting.