Because of Hunts~~

[Flickalado]

But it seems to me that many of the people who are still complaining about hunts are people who are simply mad that they can't passively get involved in the activity. They need to talk to people and ask for invites and communicate with others. That's scary scary stuff for nerdly nerds.

That's not the case at all. I'm actually working on second coil (which involves communication and getting to know people) all via party finder groups or with my FC, but the reality is why take the time to do coil (which has lockouts) when you can just join a zergfest and gear up faster. There's literally no balance with the "no restricted" hunts compared to everything else that has weekly lockouts. Doing coil involves more communication and teamwork than hunts ever will.

[Roris]

This just brings out the underlying issue with modern WoW clones over relying on instanced content, putting too much emphasis on top gear as the only motivation for doing content and also invalidating old content the very second a new tier of gear is introduced.

Hunts still take time anyway, spent about 7 hours yesterday just for one sand, no logs dropped and out of 1 Alex and 5 sands I've only gotten 2 logs. 7 hours that could have probably been better spent, aside from not playing videogames, clearing Second Coil for a chance at getting more than one piece of gear or doing Primals once again for more than one piece of gear, real gear and not just a gear enhancing item. Of course if you're already doing both Coil and Primals then it's a great way to still have something to do and keep gearing up after you're done for the week thanks to the lockout. Myth wise it made me about 3k Myth and overall it was as mind numbing as doing Brayflox speedruns, about the same myth made too.

They should have added marks to other content though, they probably will later on but it should have been implemented alongside hunts. Even something like 5 marks per Frontlines match and dungeon run or 10 marks per roulette would have balanced the load between open world and instances and given a reason to do both, which it still might do when it's implemented, whenever that is though by the time it's done it might be too little too late like a lot of things in this game.

[CYoung187]

Personally I would like to see how hunts are going in a months time. By then all the current hardcore hunters will have all their soldiery gear upgraded and will only need to get one sand or oil each week. Soldiery tomes still have a limit so while it doesn't seem like it now, it time there will be a limit to how much you can hunt for the best items. I know I only have 4 soldiery gears that are not upgraded. Once they are, I will no longer need to hunt much each week. I think by then things will be more manageable.

I would like to see how it plays out instead of claiming the game to be completely broken. Coil is still the fastest way to get top lvl gear, and I haven't seen too terrible queue times outside of as a ranged dps

[WeiShan]

bring back NMs (b/a rank) & Faction Leves (a/s rank) from 1.23,
problem solved!

[Yukiko]

Well... you know: 500 S-rank hunts... its an achivement!

[Clicked]

I am about to hit 50 and the only thing I even hear about is hunts. Is there any other end game content or did I waste my time leveling up?

If level 50 is just running around the world face rolling spawns then I don't really see the point in learning my class or gearing up at all. This is an honest question.

[Luvbunny]

I am about to hit 50 and the only thing I even hear about is hunts. Is there any other end game content or did I waste my time leveling up? If level 50 is just running around the world face rolling spawns then I don't really see the point in learning my class or gearing up at all. This is an honest question.

Depends, if you are a tank, your game won't be ruined too much, you can still dungeon grinds and your queue will be short. But other than that, you kinda have to hunt if you want EASY INSTANT gears handed to you that will give you level 90 gears ASAP NOW. Otherwise you will be gimped with your level 55 starting gears. If you want EASY level 110 gears, you also have to join HUNT, no way around this. You hunt or you will get left behind. If you are on PS3, then you better change your playtime to be on off hours since on prime time, you can't really hunt. This is the same problems that ruining the game at launch where everyone busy doing instant level FATE party and avoiding dungeon run because it was a waste of time.

[Authority]

Hunts are ruining this game.

No other way to put it.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Hunts are ruining this game.

No other way to put it.

And Atmas ruined the game before that.

And Echo buffs ruined the game before that.

How many times can the game get ruined?

[CYoung187]

And Atmas ruined the game before that.

And Echo buffs ruined the game before that.

How many times can the game get ruined?

You forgot about the time lockouts ruined the game, or Speedruns, or fates, or titan, etc etc

OMG WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?!?!