Because of Hunts~~

[Illya]

I wouldn't call people teleporting in for one kill and then teleporting out after it's dead a good example of "the game world being alive again."

The whole point of the Hunts is to go out and look for the Marks. If all you do is sit in town, wait for someone to tell you where it is, teleport there, kill it, and teleport back to town, then yeah you won't notice any difference. The zones are constantly full of people scouring every inch of the area now looking for Marks to pop, but you would never know this if you aren't one of the Hunters out there searching every crevice for a Mark.

[PurplePanther]

There was a guy decked out in unweathered noct gear who had never done CT before in a run I did. It was a...awkward realization what hunts were doing. It sort of sucks out the drive that people are getting stuff like this far easier than what was originally thought to be a challenge in comparison.

[Kagari_Asuha]

There was a guy decked out in unweathered noct gear who had never done CT before in a run I did. It was a...awkward realization what hunts were doing. It sort of sucks out the drive that people are getting stuff like this far easier than what was originally thought to be a challenge in comparison.

Well, yeah. Originally you had to at least beat Turn 8 to get that stuff and people who have been clearing Turn 8 since end of April/beginning of May probably don't even have that much.

[Ashkendor]

There was a guy decked out in unweathered noct gear who had never done CT before in a run I did. It was a...awkward realization what hunts were doing. It sort of sucks out the drive that people are getting stuff like this far easier than what was originally thought to be a challenge in comparison.

I had a Paladin in a CM run I did the other day that was in a full set of Valour gear for his first run.

I seriously did a double-take when he said he was the newbie.

[Jasiwel]

I also want to throw in that prior to Hunts, going into ThornmarchEx, LeviEx, TitanEx and T5 was incredibly awkward for me. I wasn't even geared poorly (i92 DRG), but I didn't know the fights due to not being able to run them often given how long the Queues were anyways. Then going into one I'd die or miss an important mechanic and everyone would Vote Abandon in two wipes. Going into PF was worse because I had to still learn how to do the mechanics (you can only read/watch guides so much) and then the elitists would bitch up a storm.

I think saying Hunts ruining the game is overdramatic. Prior to them I couldn't even learn the fights because the queue times were no different and the elitists would prevent me from PF. I have an FC, but we usually didn't have enough people online at once to run the EXs back then.

What I'm really trying to say is that the situation is still hardly any better than before. The problems are different, but I've seen as many "I'm quitting" threads/notices from Hunts as I saw from issues before this patch.

[Dyvid]

I also want to throw in that prior to Hunts, going into ThornmarchEx, LeviEx, TitanEx and T5 was incredibly awkward for me. I wasn't even geared poorly (i92 DRG), but I didn't know the fights due to not being able to run them often given how long the Queues were anyways. Then going into one I'd die or miss an important mechanic and everyone would Vote Abandon in two wipes. Going into PF was worse because I had to still learn how to do the mechanics (you can only read/watch guides so much) and then the elitists would bitch up a storm.

I think saying Hunts ruining the game is overdramatic. Prior to them I couldn't even learn the fights because the queue times were no different and the elitists would prevent me from PF. I have an FC, but we usually didn't have enough people online at once to run the EXs back then.

I guess the question I have to ask is how did adding Hunts fix this issue for you? I mean yea you can get i110 gear now but can you actually complete that content you mentioned now?

[Jasiwel]

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Honestly, yes. It gives me more confidence in my ability to tackle EX battles and T5. It makes me not have to worry that my team will fail a DPS check because of me or that I'll be instakill'd by a non-instakill ability. It relaxes me more knowing I'm well-geared going into these fights and it showed completely when I finally cleared ThornmarchEx a few nights ago.

I never liked Atma farming and that was killing the game for me in a lot of ways. One day I went into ST and got a UAT. I then decided I'd postpone buying any Weathered gear for the sake of getting The Liberator. I bought up Tokens for weeks and fought Hunts whenever I could to get seals. Eventually I had enough to get 2 BMLogs and I was lucky enough for one to drop for me fighting an SRank. Ever since I have not felt like a burden on my team because I've been stuck with Zenith and that helps me focus more on Mechanics.

[Gucci_Charms]

Initially I thought hunts were cool and all to help obtain oils and sands for your weathered gear...

However, I can honestly say that hunts have pretty much killed any form of challenge this game offers. I haven't seen PF so open for parties looking for people to do SCOB or Ramuh Extreme where people simply do not want to join because they just want to hunt all day long 24/7. There really is no incentive to even do raids now lol.

The saddest part is that many of these players are still bad despite having all their weathered gear at i110 -_- For example, I finished running a Hullbreaker Isle dungeon earlier where the tank with most unweathered i110 gear couldn't even maintain aggro across the mobs LOL.

SE should really just remove the SCOB lockouts at this point.

[Taruranto]

Initially I thought hunts were cool and all to help obtain oils and sands for your weathered gear...

However, I can honestly say that hunts have pretty much killed any form of challenge this game offers. I haven't seen PF so open for parties looking for people to do SCOB or Ramuh Extreme where people simply do not want to join because they just want to hunt all day long 24/7. There really is no incentive to even do raids now lol.

The saddest part is that many of these players are still bad despite having all their weathered gear at i110 -_-

SE should really just remove the SCOB lockouts at this point.

Sounds like your server is dead, bro.

A lot of SCOB PF here on ragna. Not too many for Ramuh, but we do get PF for it (just farmed it again today), but it has to be expected for dated content.

[Gucci_Charms]

Sounds like your server is dead, bro.

A lot of SCOB PF here on ragna. Not too many for Ramuh, but we do get PF for it (just farmed it again today), but it has to be expected for dated content.

My server's not dead.

There are a lot of SCOB or Ramuh EX parties in PF, but no one really wants to join them since they're all too busy doing hunts lol.