Hunts don't really feel like...hunting.

[Dorfentyme]

Decided to try the hunts feature during the free week, grabbed all my marks, ran to the weekly hunt area, walked around the area...then I realized, I just have to wait for it to spawn and hope I get there for the kill.

There's no such "hunt" involved. I just...hope I'm in the area when the enemy spawns?

Even some of the basic hunts is "be in this area when this FATE starts" and hope I get in on the kill in time, or whatever.

Really? This is the hunting feature? I mean, I suppose if you enjoyed NM camping in FFXI than you may enjoy hunts but...really? Am I missing something? There's no hunting involved it's just sit and wait, or run around until it spawns. Either way, hope I get lucky and get in on the kill as it spawns. I don't get it. The rewards are so damn good that it feels like this is what I should be doing anyways.

[HumsterMKX]

*in 16-bit voice*
Welcome to your doom.

[Velox]

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Yea the current hunts are the most disappointing feature to date. B-rank fix to make them require a mark bill added to the "hunt immersion" so that was a welcomed change. Hopefully they redesign A-ranks to require a full party to follow clues and track the thing down. That would eliminate the zerg rush and make them more like true hunts.

[Shadow_Viper_vX]

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Not to mention that now thanks to all the crybabies, unless you have a Mark/Writ for a Named Hunt Mob, you don't get any rewards what so ever for the kill. Yes let's make a new feature even more pointless and waste of time, good idea SE; please stop listening to the vocal miniority of crybabies that are always screaming nerf for every little thing they don't like.

[ChiefCurrahee]

Not to mention that now thanks to all the crybabies, unless you have a Mark/Writ for a Named Hunt Mob, you don't get any rewards what so ever for the kill. Yes let's make a new feature even more pointless and waste of time, good idea SE; please stop listening to the vocal miniority of crybabies that are always screaming nerf for every little thing they don't like.

You're welcome!

Now only if they made it so you had to pick up bills for A rank mobs. (3 marks randomized but unlimited reissues) to break up and disband the zerg.

[KarmaCha]

I love the way hunts are now. Eliminating B-rank zergs made the entire system accessible to a wider range of players while slowing down the rush enough to encourage people to do other content.

They were not working as intended and the developers acknowledged this far before they fixed them. Are you really crying over the dismissal of a broken system? Get over it.

[Zaft]

I love the way hunts are now. Eliminating B-rank zergs made the entire system accessible to a wider range of players while slowing down the rush enough to encourage people to do other content.

They were not working as intended and the developers acknowledged this far before they fixed them. Are you really crying over the dismissal of a broken system? Get over it.

Maybe our servers were different...but B rank hunting was a lot of fun on Excalibur. We had a server-wide TeamSpeak for Hunts. Somebody would find it, we would call out a time to pull it, and everyone would go riding over and get ready. You always got full credit, and because you had so many people in so many zones, you were nearly always fighting something.

Now people only bother to look for Hunts when the S rank windows open up. Other than that, Hunts are essentially dead.

Maybe that's what people wanted. But I feel like it's a serious waste.

[Estevo]

I don't have any constructive criticism, but I do know that the hunt wasn't made the best it could be, I also know it can still be fixed, or at the most, reworked into a more suitable system. I can see how depressed the devs could get seeing all this negativity on their system that they tried because of player feedback, at least help them try to make it better. Honestly if this keeps up I could see the devs never taking feedback again, (I'm sure they always will though, I could just see why they wouldn't)

[Ashkendor]

Now people only bother to look for Hunts when the S rank windows open up. Other than that, Hunts are essentially dead.

Tell that to the 200-300 people that were zerging A ranks on Sargatanas yesterday after maintenance.

[Krr]

Now people only bother to look for Hunts when the S rank windows open up. Other than that, Hunts are essentially dead.
Maybe that's what people wanted. But I feel like it's a serious waste.

If hunting is dead I'm really, really curious how the server still coordinates 60+ people showing up to an A-rank whenever I chance into being in the same zone as one...

As someone who reluctantly did hunting in the TS to pad out her unweathered i110: it wasn't enjoyable. Hovering around open window zones for the one in a thousand chance you're the one to find something and then warping in to a "fight" that was 60 people spamming Medica and beating down a monster severely underpowered compared to the group size is reminiscent of the mindless grind that was fate leveling is the most thoroughly unengaging thing I have done in the game since I tried Atma farming.

Pretty much all the 'midcore' content, by which I mean the one entire Primal encounter we got and the two that might have still been relevant, is dead as a result too. The people who were doing Leviathan mirrors that might have been interested in Ramuh weapons simply aren't due to the insanely disproportionate rewards given to hunters and no one else (even after the B-rank patch).