Latest patch, making The Hunt even more unbearable

[Awimboway]

This patch has obliterated the "fairness" of The Hunt. It was never really fair to begin with since you could easily get full ilvl 110 on every piece of gear over the course of like two days if you tried hard enough, however the latest changes have made it impossible. I play on Moogle and The Hunt is pretty popular on there, I've been doing them myself up until today, I attempted to do some hunting but once an A rank is discovered (which is the only one people search for now) literally 200-300 people teleport to that area to kill it...

[Awimboway]

This lags the area massively, plus people like myself and I imagine PS3 users will never get to them in time, it takes me about a minute to load into an area I teleport to when there is an A rank there, and because people have no patience it always gets pulled within about a minute of it being spotted. So I can never get to any of them in time. To put this in perspective, today on the day the patch has been released 20+ A ranks have already been killed, I was in the area for all of them, yet I have only managed to get the reward for two of them. Even if I can get to them before they die with the sheer amount of people around it I never see it as once again the loading priorities are messed up like they used to be with Odin and Behemoth. Honestly this is making the game basically unplayable as far as I am concerned, my whole FC is already sitting on ilvl 105+ thanks to The Hunt and Coil 2, I'm still sitting on ilvl 101 having managed to get one Sand of Time since the release of The Hunt

[Holzmeister]

This lags the area massively, plus people like myself and I imagine PS3 users will never get to them in time, it takes me about a minute to load into an area I teleport to when there is an A rank there, and because people have no patience it always gets pulled within about a minute of it being spotted. So I can never get to any of them in time. To put this in perspective, today on the day the patch has been released 20+ A ranks have already been killed, I was in the area for all of them, yet I have only managed to get the reward for two of them. Even if I can get to them before they die with the sheer amount of people around it I never see it as once again the loading priorities are messed up like they used to be with Odin and Behemoth. Honestly this is making the game basically unplayable as far as I am concerned

Exactly! I mean if they offer a PS3-version, they should make it so that people actually have the chance to beat up those A/S ranks. <<

[Awimboway]

There NEEDS to be a weekly cap placed on Allied Seals because this is just ridiculous, at least if there were a cap people getting it done early in the week wouldn't bother later in the week leaving it open for all of us with slow PCs, internet connections, etc. At the moment however the game is nearing the point where I may be forced to cancel my subscription as it is unplayable.

[ServerCollaps]

the allied seal cap is called soldiery cap

without soldiery gear you cant upgrade anything and its limited to 450 per week

[Benolan]

the allied seal cap is called soldiery cap

without soldiery gear you cant upgrade anything and its limited to 450 per week

In practical terms yes... but do you really think most ppl realize that?

[revonine]

In practical terms yes... but do you really think most ppl realize that?

It doesn't seem like it. I stopped hunting for the moment as I can't afford my next Soldiery piece until 2 weeks from now. I only hunt when I have a piece imminent.

[Benolan]

It doesn't seem like it. I stopped hunting for the moment as I can't afford my next Soldiery piece until 2 weeks from now. I only hunt when I have a piece imminent.

I have used it to cap soldiery before if I needed to, but I have found the hunts main help to be with the Novus relic... Getting the myth for maps and seals for alexandrite speeds up the process. Once i am done with Novus I don't see myself hunting much at all.

[Gerolan]

I do agree the changes to the hunt can't even be called a band aid fix . with B rank out of the equation, people are swarming to the As and instant pulling so they get max credit.
Was bad enough before patch with people just pulling as they turn up, now it's a 100 times worse.
A better fix would be that if your not in a party as long as you do enough contribution you should get max credit.
Their are times like queuing for ST etc that you cannot join a party and being able to still get credit outside a party would suffice, but killing an A rank, blowing all cool downs and doing more than most actually there and getting near zero credit is a joke.

[Eddard]

Okay a couple of things. First of all, YES people did in fact hunt bs. Maybe not everybody did, but many did and gave us people in hunting groups something to get while waiting for A s to come back up.

That being said, the REAL problem now is that because you removed Bs completley (I don't care about you stupid weeklys, you know what I am talking about). Now you have made people even more dirty and rotten than they were before. Everyone is like vultures on steroids, racing to the mark. How do you possibly think this is going to end well?

I mean seriously people, if you miss an A you have to wait another 4 hours or so, to MAYBE get another chance.