Hunt changes - for the better of us all

[Thayos]

Basically, all SE did was make B ranks unattractive for hunt groups and isolate them for soloists.

So people who just want to solo their mark bills got a buff. Before they could barely get any seals, now they can get roughly 250 per week.

For everyone else, though, this is a nerf. Seems to be a palatable nerf for many people, but it's still a nerf... no way around that.

This really doesn't do anything to fix what I perceive to be the biggest problem with the hunt system, which is that A and S ranks are overburdened, resulting in anxiety, tension, frustration and nastiness when a handful of players start pulling early.

[Naberrie]

I was a little upset this morning at first. Hadn't read the notes yet, and found Stinging Sophie right away. I shouted and no one came (unlike me, everyone else had apparently read the notes) so I soloed it, and found it shockingly easy. And got no reward.

So I logged on to read the patch notes. At first I was upset because I got a lot of notes from Bs. But after doing the math, it seemed a fair trade.

[silentwindfr]

well this band aid didn't solve the trouble that some dailies are simply impossible to do with less of 3 hours of play a day. i means the 2 from FATE that can take more of 1-2 hours for spawn...
someone can explain me, why they haven't used the leves system for this? and more important, why don't place a cap and give us a daily craps! i means we still need more of 1700 mark for a weapon i70 at 32 mark a day if you don't take part in the big farce of the rank A and S zergfest.
i'm only one at be amazed how SE don't understand the main trouble of this far...feature?

FATE must be done because they are on our way, not because we are forced to do it. forcing people into something that can have more of 3hours of respawn it's.... idiot.

[Naberrie]

This really doesn't do anything to fix what I perceive to be the biggest problem with the hunt system, which is that A and S ranks are overburdened, resulting in anxiety, tension, frustration and nastiness when a handful of players start pulling early.

This is what I'm most concerned about. Ss in particular were already nasty as far as I was concerned, and even As were starting to get bad. Now it's going to get a lot worse. They need to fix the loading on all As and Ss now. Otherwise it's going to be ridiculous.

[HumsterMKX]

Basically, all SE did was make B ranks unattractive for hunt groups and isolate them for soloists.

So people who just want to solo their mark bills got a buff. Before they could barely get any seals, now they can get roughly 250 per week.

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Hardly 250 a week. Remember the 2 x20 seals ones are from FATES. And they take ages to pop. Been camping for 1 for the last 45mins, nothing happening. You would be considered to be damn luck to get both to pop.

[silentwindfr]

well you want to know why? because people are screaming for open-Zerg-content. and the fact that leves system is like an instance don't please them, they totally ignore the balance or the fun... they simply want to say we have a world that are... too small for all the person around anyway.

then instead to work on a decent system avoiding all the trouble of... well, the trouble link to the mankind's nature. maybe even giving us a new sort of activity that can our main activity outside raid, with challenge and all... we did get NM.... the freaking useless NM! the most easy instant gratification feature of any mmorpg. worst, the most unfair and useless if you want to make it a main activity.

[Azure_dragon-]

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I would completey agree with you on this if not only B marks were zerged along with A'S & S's. I know that even on B marks I was unable to even get credit due to the mob not appearing on screen. Even if I was the person who found it :/

[Gaddes]

I totally forgot, but I didn't see anywhere in the patch notes about them addressing the disappearing S mobs with large amounts of players... I'm assuming this will get even worse now.

[Edli]

Hardly 250 a week. Remember the 2 x20 seals ones are from FATES. And they take ages to pop

True, they're useless IMO. A complete waste of time. I did some of them before and as someone that has limited time to play they're not worth it at all. Way too much time spent for too little reward and is not even fun time. Just staying there like a scarecrow doing nothing. I barely have a few hours a day, not going to spend it by not playing while being logged on.

[Alx789]

I'm curious. Were A-Ranks ever not the top priority of hunt zergs? On Excal, they were already being fought at maximum player capacity, because those were the main windows being tracked in the first place.

Yes, it is. But now hunt groups has nothing to do between respawns of A-marks - it's some hours. The result - all groups will be (re)assembled just before respawn in concrete region. In my world (low populated) in the morning (low populated time) there are ~100-120 hunters. In the evening - i think that 500 or more. When this horde jumps into one region and starts to patrol locations and then stupidly runs to one place... I think it's BAD GAME. The main problem is that the respawn intervals are long enough - some hours. This doesn't allow to keep hunt groups - there is nothing to do after mob death for a long time. So, players will need to leave hunt group if they want to use DF or participate another party or...