Hunt changes - for the better of us all

[giantslayer]

Really happy with the changes to the dailies but I'm saddened that I will no longer have a desire to slay a B I found in an unoccupied corner of the map with no one else around.

You can always do what human beings have done from the beginning: kill it for fun because it's there. Since they have a 5 second re-spawn and don't give rewards to other people without a bill, you don't have to worry about a mob of people showing up, cursing you out, and blacklisting you for having the audacity to fight a B-rank by yourself for fun.

On a more serious note, I'm optimistic that these changes will go a long way towards fixing things.

[JustPlainLucas]

You can always do what human beings have done from the beginning: kill it for fun because it's there. Since they have a 5 second re-spawn and don't give rewards to other people without a bill, you don't have to worry about a mob of people showing up, cursing you out, and blacklisting you for having the audacity to fight a B-rank by yourself for fun.

On a more serious note, I'm optimistic that these changes will go a long way towards fixing things.

But see, that's the thing. The thrill is gone. I used to love attacking a B all myself, waiting for a hunter to see me fighting it, then getting all up in arms calling me a greedy bastard, then try to steal hate and reset it until the horde arrives. Now, they'll just go, "Meh," and move on.

[Zumi]

I don't like the changes at all. They slowed the amount of seals you can get because you can't farm Bs anymore all day long. Going to be a much longer grind now to get allied seal items.

Think of it this way you killed on average 3-4 Bs for every 1 A because the B would spawn about 4 times before the A would ever spawn again. This is a lot of seals lost per day I don't know how anyone would think this is good.

[JustPlainLucas]

I don't like the changes at all. They slowed the amount of seals you can get because you can't farm Bs anymore all day long. Going to be a much longer grind now to get allied seal items.

I dunno, but it seems on Cactuar, no one gives a crap about Bs anymore. My FC and LS no longer than shout them out, only As and Ss, and considering you earn 274 seals a week completely on your own without anything hunting parties, it's not a bad trade off.

[Zumi]

I dunno, but it seems on Cactuar, no one gives a crap about Bs anymore. My FC and LS no longer than shout them out, only As and Ss, and considering you earn 274 seals a week completely on your own without anything hunting parties, it's not a bad trade off.

I am on a crowded legacy server B's are killed tons all day long. I would say the majority of my points come from B's

[Zaiken]

I don't like the changes at all. They slowed the amount of seals you can get because you can't farm Bs anymore all day long. Going to be a much longer grind now to get allied seal items.

Think of it this way you killed on average 3-4 Bs for every 1 A because the B would spawn about 4 times before the A would ever spawn again. This is a lot of seals lost per day I don't know how anyone would think this is good.

It is good for people are not in top Hunt Linkshell, early puller, getting to the mark too late, or never getting any mark to stand a chance between the zerge fest.

With this changed, hunt are met to be done in light party or with a few friends without the stress, or do them as your own pace without missing out. It give everyone a chance to do it. Not like before where you have to fight over B Rank Mob and A rank if someone pull early.

Overall good changed, but the side effect is that A mark will now become even more popular and down quicker. So many competition for A mark that there will always be early puller and high chance of not getting anything if you take the none cap sand route.

[Puresin]

Hunting in alliances is the biggest change.

24 people seeing one person's spam message versus only 8.

Things just got a whole lot more efficient.

Don't forget to change those macros to /a!

[Thayos]

Love the changes with B ranks; my only concern is early pulls causing even more drama now with A ranks. My hope is perhaps the B rank changes will cause fewer people to hunt A & S ranks, but I have a feeling the only real change will be more people doing their dailies.

Time will tell, I guess.

[Roris]

Changes seem good, kinda slightly bummed out that forming hunts alliances will be a bit harder to do and organize than expected, since it doesn't seem they added an option to the Party Finder for alliances and most likely won't be added until 2.4 or later. At least alliances are still feasible for them and we finally got an option to form them in the open world at all, so it's not so bad.

[Zumi]

Basically we have lost out on about half of our seals intake. This isn't good at all. Doing 1 weekly hunt solo for 50 seals doesn't make up for all the Bs you could of been killing all week long.