the hunts made me hate this community now

[wizzed]

Also, people react to waypoints that you accidentally put up on /say and tell other people that you are trolling them.

The hunt kinda destroyed the community, I don't care if they remove it now and leave all the sand gotten from hunt in the game, just remove it until it's revamped into something better. Hunt are just like fates, but at a random spawn, isn't that just like Odin?.. Why introduce new mechanic when old ones can be reused?

[Katie]

I think the idea behind the hunt system is fine and will get better/fun once the hype dies down; but they could easily help the tension and stress of things if they just made the daily hunts more of a quest type. You claim the hunt ticket, have to find it on your own in a zone, then fight it similarly to a map mob that only appears for the chest owner. The reward would be something like 20 marks.

This to me would help those that don't want to fight in traffic to get a chance at a open-world spawnspam.

[blacksheepwall]

Today has been my 1st day of active hunting and apart from one person questioning anothers genital size, it's been quite a pleasant day. Too leave an instance for a hunt is a lousy move though.

[Nukocafe]

I just had 2 raids today where people leave the game mid way because a S rank spawned.

I have had this happen to me at least twice.

Scenario 1: Practicing turn 7. We're making decent progress. Suddenly "hey guys S rank spawned in xyz". Everyone leaves, teleports to S rank, it's dead before we get there. I leave the party.

Scenario 2: I join T5 farm, and midway through conflags "hey guys S rank spawned in xyz, lets go". Everyone leaves midway through divebombs. I leave the party.


I don't join raid groups to stop midway for idiotic hunts. At this point I think I will just blacklist people who do this kind of thing so I feel your pain OP :T

[DarkStar]

I gave up on Hunts pretty early on. I'll do a B rank if I see it, because I can actually solo most of them on my MNK (/flex), but I'm not actively hunting for them because that inevitably means I run into at least one jerk who thinks it's funny to reset the mark after I managed to get the first hit in. And yes, I always wait until there's a goodly number of people there before pulling. As in, at least a dozen on A ranks. I also inevitably get bitched out by people who see me soloing a B-Rank for not 'waiting for them', even though after they showed up I slowed down my DPS so they could get full credit as well.

Honestly, I really REALLY hope that at some point SE changes Hunts to be more like a Levequest or Treasure Maps, where you have to expend a resource to spawn a mark, and only you and your party can attack it. If it turns out your party can't handle it, oh well, try again with more people.

[ispano]

I applaud you for your capitalist ideas but denounce you for your lack of emotion. Common courtesy dictates that you should wait for at least a few more people but obviously not the whole server. Its this attitude that effectively killed the selfless gamer in mmo's today. It always helps to state a pull time.

The system is designed as a competition. If people WANT to play differently and wait for people, that's their choice. But the fact is, they are playing it differently than intended. It's like using a physical product in ways not intended, sure, go ahead, but don't expect support. In this case, support of those who don't accept the zerg mentality.

[Yumi_umi]

I don't hate nor like the community lol when it comes to hunts.
All i'm thinking is wtf SE.
You make roulette so tht ppl will DF more , you made PF so tht ppl can organize parties and setup for things more easily. But all of tht is near pointless now due to ppl just wanting to hunt hunt hunt. So they literally just curb stomped their own small bandaid fixes to the community..?
2 steps forward, 10 steps back loooool

[SirTaint]

Hunts are getting worst because the hardcores are done with hunts.

Hardcore players are typically organized and will farm effectively. Big FCs working together for finding hunts.

Now we are all dealing with the second tier of players farming. They are less organized and mostly angry from the first month of hunts.

Mobs are being pulled very fast and less and less information is being shared.


Edit: The biggest problems with hunts are the players not actively hunting expecting the server to invite them and wait. Join a group, work together in open zones and warp/tele/run quickly. Know that 1,1 is the top left corner. Know that 18,18 in NT means processing plant. Know that NT = North Than. Know that x,37ish in LL is Docks and x,15ish is Mist. Know what ffxivhunt.com is and how to use it.

Edit2: Another terrible habbit during hunts is people just following other party members. 8 people looking around > 1 person looking and 7 people waiting. If 2 zones are open split up 4 and 4. Bigger zones assign areas. SS one person up top and one person down bottom is typically enough.

I'm 32 seals away from being done with hunts for a month (allied seals > max sol tomes), hoping its smooth again when I need more seals.

[Thayos]

Now we are all dealing with the second tier of players farming. They are less organized and mostly angry from the first month of hunts.

QFT.

As all the organized people get what they need and stop doing hunts (kind of describes me), now what we're seeing are more disorganized hunt sessions, resulting in more frustration/anger among hunters. Although early pulling has been a problem since the start, it's certainly gotten worse recently, and the few parties I've been in during the past week have had extremely high rates of turnover (or they disband completely) because people just can't stand it.

I need approximately 100 more seals to finish my paladin, and then I'm content with waiting as long as it takes for an alternative to working with this new wave of hunters.

The poster above hits it on the head... I think the reason this "new wave" tends to pull early is because they're just angry over how the system was implemented and they really have no intention of playing the content efficiently.

[Owen_cain]

Honestly I hated hunts with a passion. I would have people drop out of a run for an S rank as well. I'd much rather dungeon crawl but you what when you can't beat em join em. As of recently I've learned more about hunts and actually enjoy them from time to time. I just keep in the back of my mind there will always be a troll or two an if it gets out of control I leave and try again later or early morning. The only problem I have now is why run a dungeon (which I love) when you can get seals and tomes from hunts. Very unbalanced at the moment.