The Hunt and Alexandrite: Before and After 2.4

[KaedrianLiang]

Before 2.4:
Every 20 A Rank NM's killed yielded 4 Alexandrite.
Every 375 A Rank NM' kills yielded 75 Alexandrite.

After 2.4:
Every 20 A rank NM's killed yields 3 Alexandrite.
Every 500 A Rank NM's You will have 75 Alexandrite.

25% nerf, 25% more time needed to obtain a Novus Weapon. 200 hours becomes 250 hours. You get the idea. It's simple math. you can hire a 5th grader to solve problems through numbers before the problem even occurs.

[Krisds]

Yeah, I am still in the process of working on my first and only Novus....and I can understand the nerf to the amount of soldiery the hunts drop, since they did decrease the amount of soldiery needed to exchange for a mysterious map to do to get an Alexandrite....I do wish however, that the amount of elite marks needed for an Alexandrite was lower. I mainly use my marks for those, but 200 always seemed a bit high. I thought maybe 75 or 80 was a decent number for Alexandrite, but even 100 would seem appropriate since it would take a few days of doing the daily hunt marks to get 1 if you don't go for A ranks or S ranks.

[ManweSulimo]

I've posted this before somewhere but in case you didn't see it I farmed brayflox 700+ times in 30 days to get my novus before hunts existed. And I know of people that got theirs before me on other servers. So they ran 16 more brayflox runs for each day sooner than me that they got it. Be glad you don't have to do that ^^;

[Kaze3434]

Before 2.4:
Every 20 A Rank NM's killed yielded 4 Alexandrite.
Every 375 A Rank NM' kills yielded 75 Alexandrite.

After 2.4:
Every 20 A rank NM's killed yields 3 Alexandrite.
Every 500 A Rank NM's You will have 75 Alexandrite.

25% nerf, 25% more time needed to obtain a Novus Weapon. 200 hours becomes 250 hours. You get the idea. It's simple math. you can hire a 5th grader to solve problems through numbers before the problem even occurs.

because having one piece of content be the end all be all way to get something done is totally good design

[Doki]

or you could just do daily roulette quest + other roulettes for tomes and get them from maps probably a lot faster.

[Aana]

25% more hunts. 50% LESS roulettes. Less QQ more PewPew.

[NorthernLadMSP]

No, it is not 50% less dungeons. While the maps are 50% of the cost they used to be, we're also only getting half of the soldiery vs. what we used to get for myth. So, no they are not actually 50% quicker to obtain.

[KaedrianLiang]

I've posted this before somewhere but in case you didn't see it I farmed brayflox 700+ times in 30 days to get my novus before hunts existed. And I know of people that got theirs before me on other servers. So they ran 16 more brayflox runs for each day sooner than me that they got it. Be glad you don't have to do that ^^;

Not about how it was done before. I'm questioning the devs implementing unfavorable modifications, for a feature that didnt need to be modified.

because having one piece of content be the only way to get something done is totally good design

fixed

[Ophie-Mio]

Though I never used Hunts as a one-stop shop for all my tome needs, I did use it from time to time for Alexandrite/soldiery gain when I just couldn't push myself to run another damn dungeon. Sometimes I just want things to be quick.

Now though, Hunts aren't even worth that. It sucks when you have to wait at an A rank just for a Full party to gather. Yes, it's awesome that you can experience the mechanics of an A rank fully but it's just not worth my time.

It's also not a good means to distract myself from how boring dungeons can be either. I wish it would give back poetics... Maybe in the future when the devs make it easier to obtain soldiery. As of now, it's just awful all around. Farming for soldiery is such a damn chore.

[Saccharin]

Before 2.4:
Every 20 A Rank NM's killed yielded 4 Alexandrite.
Every 375 A Rank NM' kills yielded 75 Alexandrite.

After 2.4:
Every 20 A rank NM's killed yields 3 Alexandrite.
Every 500 A Rank NM's You will have 75 Alexandrite.

25% nerf, 25% more time needed to obtain a Novus Weapon. 200 hours becomes 250 hours. You get the idea. It's simple math. you can hire a 5th grader to solve problems through numbers before the problem even occurs.

The sample size is so small that your results mean nothing.