are hunts the only way to obtain allied seals?

[Ametrine]

Close, but not so true. You can still get Full credit going solo. The trick is to keep dots up on hunt at all times, be high on the hate list and never stop dpsing, and be over geared for the hunt. Its hard but not un -do-able.

I think she was referring to finding the actual hunts. But, you are correct, but its a bit much on some A ranks and S ranks in general.

[Drako]

I just want the alexandrite price to drop to 50 or 20 seals even.

OT but i'd love for Alex to be a currency to trade and acquire materia. I've got a full stack of the stuff. I'd love to use it to help me get some materia to do my second zodiac, that way I can actually do the maxed out version instead of the cheap mans version. I did the maxed out one for my WAR, that was one hell of a trip. SBing 24/7 for a long time ugg.

Little closer to topic, as far as notes rewards. They need to just put sands/oils of time in the damn hunt vendor, and get rid of this blood-log crap. Why add a extra step, when there is already redundant steps after you acquire the stuff? Get allied notes> trade for blood logs > trade for sands > trade to upgrade weapon/armor. Really? smh They need to go back to how the first gearing up worked. Philosophy for Darklight/Ilvl70, Myth for Ilvl90. Upgrade process is just convoluted imho, and can be very confusing to new people. Hey new guy that's right you got to talk to 4 separate npcs in order to get your gear...

[FranSeara]

Depending on server population, dots might not even be worth using.
Going tank and generating as much enmity as you can is the best way to get credit. (Though, if you're alone, don't get top enmity or you're probably going to die lol)

Yeap, you might die if you pull hate of the tank. Playing Bard in hunts ,you wanna keep your dots up just to stop other players from placing their dots. Hunts have a limit of dots they'll take, if I understand this right. If all else fails "Pull first" and hope you dont die, otherwise no Seals for you. I dont recommend doing this if you wanna make friends....lol

[Black91CRX]

Pretty much this. On Leviathan, most A hunts are on a relatively set and unified spawn time. When you join an A rank group, chances are there's going to be another spawn within 10min... then another... then another. The downtime after all of them are down before the next spawn happens is maybe an hour or so. Sure, not everyone is going to have the time to do every one of them, but who said you need to? Just doing a few A hunts a week alone will reduce those 8 months by more than half.

Huge difference between 4 months and one week. He was making it sound like it was just that easy. It's not. Back to my original point, the cost is simply too high for stuff that old and only i70.

[Steady]

I'm hoping they move all the hunt items to GC items. How many types of currency does one game need?

Just add a GC rank, put them all there, and make hunts drop GC seals.