Hunts and Frontlines: Thoughts?

[Luvbunny]

How into hunts and frontlines are you?
Hunt is a total mess, unless you go do it during off peak hours which is a blast. Otherwise it's extremely toxic, a big waste of time and badly implemented. Frontlines is fun, could use more tweaks but a blast.

Are hunts beneficial to all?
Right now it is being spammed by the whole server because it requires zero thinking, just find mob, zerg, forget about everyone else. Really bad content design.

What have you bought with your seals thus far?
The quickest way to gear fast for lvl 90 sets and lvl 110.

If there was one way to improve hunts or frontlines, what would you do?
It's beyond easy fix. Add one minute invincible status, add 3 minutes big damage reduction to the monster. Make it so each B kill takes 3 minutes, A kill takes 5 minutes and S rank takes 8 minutes to kill. Problems solved, more people can participate and get credits.

What is your favorite mob out of the hunts?
Any mobs that decimate a big groups is most welcome. AOE petrify, instant death moves, as long as they obliterate the group quickly, the better it is. It will force some strategy. Too bad none live long enough to do barely anything. Most of them die in 15 seconds. It is that bad...

What do you think about no morale in frontlines?
Morale is good, anything that level the playing field is good. No need of "my peen is bigger than yours".

What team are you on in frontlines?
Maelstrom

What rewards would you like to see in frontlines and/or hunts?
Rewards are excellent for Hunts, too good to be true, takes so little time and so much much much much rewards. No need to fix the rewards, fix the mob HP and behavior so it's a 3-8 minutes event minimum and not mere seconds.

How do you hunt? Solo? With a group? Lie in wait, or run the moment you see someone call for the mob?
Gotta group or you get crap rewards. Hunt is great idea that is badly implemented. It's great that it forces everyone to work together. We kinda need more server side contents that force people in the same server to team up and work together. And heavily punish people who try to do everything solo for this particular content. This way you have your solo content and your grouping content.

[Colt47]

Well, I don't really PvP at all so I can't comment on frontlines, but hunts have been a mixed bag and I'm curious to see what Square Enix's development team is going to do next to improve the system. Right now, Hunts are beneficial mostly due to the fact they represent a better upgrade path than animus/novus, which is just so grindy that no sane person would fathom doing them unless they were incredibly bored or just couldn't find a better game to play at the time.

Right now, I'm hoping they will make S ranks appear regularly and have abilities that make zerging them a bad idea as right now most farm groups just ignore the S rank windows to focus on A and B rank enemies. They also should probably have iLvL 110 or 100 gear available from hunts instead of just giving sands and oils, as the hunts are at least somewhat less repetitive than repeatedly running through coil or other end game raids.

[Draziel]

How into hunts and frontlines are you?
I'm not particularly crazy about either

Are hunts beneficial to all?
Somewhat provided you actually get there before it dies

What have you bought with your seals thus far?
A pepper to reset my 'bo

If there was one way to improve hunts or frontlines, what would you do?
More HP for the lower ranked hunts they just seem to die too quickly

What do you think about no morale in frontlines?
Indifferent really although it is nice to ease people that have not done PVP before in it.

What team are you on in frontlines?
Immortal Flames

How do you hunt? Solo? With a group? Lie in wait, or run the moment you see someone call for the mob?
Badly! I am not part of a hunt LS so the only time i tend to notice them is when half of a server appears and starts shouting for invites haha

[Quantarum]

I've barely touched The Hunt content, it's the worst thing I've experienced in FFXIV. I don't do PVP, so I have no opinion on Frontlines. -Q.

[MuCephei]

How into hunts and frontlines are you?
Not really into hunts, frontlines is fun.

Are hunts beneficial to all?
Everyone that participates gets something I guess.

What have you bought with your seals thus far?
A Hero's Ring of Fending and a Reagan Pepper for my chocobo companion.

If there was one way to improve hunts or frontlines, what would you do?
Hunts...I can't think of a way to improve the hunts without scrapping the whole system. Frontlines I find no fault with.

What is your favorite mob out of the hunts?
Skogs Fru and Dark Helmet.

What do you think about no morale in frontlines?
Not sure...It's fine with me.

Frontlines Team?
Twin Adders.

What rewards would you like to see in frontlines and/or hunts?
Frontlines are fine. Regarding the Hunts...I'm not sure if the rewards are too easy to obtain or the Hunt is just too rewarding.

How do you hunt?
I don't hunt voluntarily, only once; however, occasionally I will come across a B mark and duo it with my choco buddy.

[Rhomagus]

If there was one way to improve hunts or frontlines, what would you do?

Remove the Grand Company Specific Elite Gear from the rewards with Allied Seals and move them to the Frontlines' list of rewards.

You don't fight as part of your Grand Company during hunts. You fight specifically for your Grand Company when you fight in Frontlines. Why is the Elite gear passed out to those in the hunts?

One change improves both.

[Mcshiggs]

Remove the Grand Company Specific Elite Gear from the rewards with Allied Seals and move them to the Frontlines' list of rewards.

You don't fight as part of your Grand Company during hunts. You fight specifically for your Grand Company when you fight in Frontlines. Why is the Elite gear passed out to those in the hunts?

One change improves both.

If you notice each hunt mark has been issued as a threat by the GC leaders, so you really are killing them in the name of your GC.

[Leira_Raine]

Finally up for those that are curious: http://gamerescape.com/2014/08/26/eo...you-hunted-me/

That being said, hope you enjoy and I hope I'll see some more opinion for the next article (will be quite the fun topic, I assure you all).