Please, give us hunts back :(

[Riepah]

No thanks, hunts was the worst content in FFXIV for me

Everything is the "worst content in FFXIV" for somebody - that doesn't mean everything should become barely worth doing.

I'm fine with poetics staying out of hunts, but they should really give more Soldiery tomes. Nothing wrong with hunts being a great way to farm those tomes. As it is at the moment, only S feel worth going to.

Could always do some Frontline, as it gives 50 SoL and 20 ToP and match takes 15mins or so. And if more peoples would do this it should reduce que time alot, while also giving some easy kills :P

The match may take 15 minutes, but the queue takes hours. I'd absolutely adore to PvP, but the insane queue times kill it for me completely.

[Nyalia]

Man, SE just can't win, can they? They add Hunts with great rewards, and everyone complains that there is no reason to do anything else, that they have to hunt, that too many people are hunting, and that hunts are boring. So, they release 2.4 where hunts still give rewards, but toned down. Now, I keep hearing people complain that not enough people are hunting and they have to do other things besides hunts.

Seriously guys, there are reasons why we can't have nice things. The reasons are that when we get what the vocal minority wants, another vocal minority surfaces to complain about it. No wonder SE rarely listens to the fanbase!

[PureEclipse]

The huge issue was hunts gave way to much, now they give way to little considering the price requirements.

i90 gear was 20 allied seals, i100 gear is 400 allied seals...how does that even add up? 10 more ilvl and it shot up 380 seals?
Im not saying it should be 20 but dear gods SE seems to not now how to balance correctly when it comes to rewards and reward requirements.

Should A ranks be dropping sold and poetics like crazy...no, but I think the reward for A ranks should be at least doubled considering costs for obtaining items, S ranks I think should be doing like 100 sold and 50 poetics, they are S ranks afterall.

The great thing about hunts was that it was more community driven thus more interaction in a SOCIAL game, I was gone for over 6 months due to wanting to focus on college(yeah my choice) I came back to a friends list that looked horrid, after about 3 or 4 sessions of doing hunt stuff I had a healthy friends list again and did stuff with these new friends all in different fc's outside of hunts as well.
It was casual friendly and I fear too many people frown on the word casual these days.

[Beyondgrave]

Might as well share it here.

I was in Aleport trying to complete a rogue class quest when I noticed that somebody had shouted that Naan is around. I opened his flag and job changed to warrior and rode there. When I got there I saw a paladin, a dragoon and a white mage. I got myself invited to their party but it turns out that the white mage is not in the party because she did not want to leave her DF queue. I thought nothing of it and we started with just us four. I let the paladin took charge and focused on doing damage. It took longer than expected and I started losing focus while dodging the crab's AOE attacks. Suddenly...the paladin dropped dead. I quickly put up defiance and started using my tanking actions. I wondered why the paladin dropped from full HP to zero and noticed the crab's buffs. My eyes widened when I noticed it's 10 stacks of damage increase and it increases over time. Sure enough, tanking this crab hurts. I wasn't sure if the white mage is having trouble targeting my party's to heal us so I poured everything into defense. It got really dangerous for me and I even made good use of holmgang but alas, at about 1%, I was defeated. There was only the dragoon and white mage left and the crab had a dozen stacks at least but it was defeated before it could strike down the dragoon and white mage and we all got our marks. We both got raised, had a laugh, and parted ways.



Best hunting experience yet and it was just about half hour ago.

This is what hunts was designed to be like. Not gather 100's of people and all zerg it down in 5 sec and move to the next S rank. Also, no more blacklisting, shaming, and bullying other for acidentally pulling it early. So no, hunts is finally working the way it suppose to be.

[RyujinUzikin]

I guess they just want ppl to do the new dungeons more than to farm tomes with hunts. It kind of make sense if you think about it.

However, I think if they gave A's at least 5 poetics, it would inspire a little more to do them than to have them give nothing but allied seals.

[Woggers]

Please no. Hunts are PERFECT right now. A ranks people shout in zone. Wait for full PT and then kill. With 8 people some A hunts are a challenge and fun. This is how SE invisioned them.

[Sartori]

I just passed for more then 1hour in same A and i call my LS's (that is 6 for hunts) and nothing, he was still there.

Checked website, a lot 99% open. People don't even care anymore.

Please, just 2x more soldier would fix this problem or even just 5 Poetic drop. Just that.

Was never thinking i would miss hunts but it's getting boring already farming over and over same 2 dungeon (qarn-snowcloak).

So how are you getting your allied seals? Hunts are alive and well on Balmung, yes a little slow but still alot doing them. I've been doing them for the last 3 days alot more relaxing then spamming dungeons your right there. And no dealing with duty finder babies

[Yumi_umi]

Haha it just to show u how hunts were a terrible idea.
Most Ppl didn't do hunts because they enjoyed them "thrill of the hunt", they did it because of the easy tomes and gear ( and some for the vanity )
Now tht it has lost it's charm, ppl r like meh i need to cap tomes and not waste time on hunts.
So good riddance hunts i hope to not see u a become a big thing till patches 2.5/3.0

[Moomba33]

I hated hunts in 2.3.
They gave out rewards far too quickly compared to other content and created a lot of drama in the community.

Hunts are great now. The fights are much more fun with less people doing them, and I still see 1 or 2 groups doing hunts in PF most days so they aren't totally dead.

Wasn't the original intention something like solo for B, light party for A, full party for S?
If anything changes I hope they just drop the marks' HP back down to their original levels, not up the rewards.

[CrystalRainbow]

I like the current hunt system aswell, Where I can do something.

I've done more hunts in 2.4 then all of 2.3 for A and S ranks.