Hunts becoming popular again?

[Drako]

Wait is it confirmed that Carbontwine/coat drop from WoD though?

Yes and No Crystal Tower Weekly Quest

Can upgrade accessories with the weekly, but not body gear. So still have to grind hunts to get that part done outside of Final Coil. So its likely best to use CT to get accessories done, while simultaneously doing hunts to upgrade body gear. Unless a miracle happens and the Carbontwine drops in WoD.

[MasamuneBranford]

Yes and No Crystal Tower Weekly Quest

Can upgrade accessories with the weekly, but not body gear. So still have to grind hunts to get that part done outside of Final Coil. So its likely best to use CT to get accessories done, while simultaneously doing hunts to upgrade body gear. Unless a miracle happens and the Carbontwine drops in WoD.

This is no different than what happened with 2.3. They will release the Carbontwine at a later patch.

[Drako]

This is no different than what happened with 2.3. They will release the Carbontwine at a later patch.

Oh I know, I posted regarding that detail as well in a separate thread.

[Alipoprocks]

I just wish the old logs weren't useless now. >.> They could at least let us trade them in for a few seals or something.

[Mithent]

Oh, great, hunts are now super-relevant again, and everyone is going to be zerging them like last time.

Hunts can be all right, when they're not vastly over-popular and as occasional content, but this is just going to go back to people getting angry again because of how poorly they scale. There have been some improvements since their introduction, as they did increase their HP, and they're not such a great source of poetics as to completely negate the need to do other content, but we're going to be back to half the server descending on one mob within seconds of it being discovered.

I've never accused anyone of pulling early, and I can totally understand not wanting to wait when there's already enough people gathered, but it's also annoying to see people who aren't amongst the first hundred or so to arrive derided as slow/lazy - when hunts are that popular, it's as much about correctly playing the "being in the right linkshells" metagame as it is anything else, and every announcement is a stressful scramble to try to get credit.

My suggestions would be:
1. Make the daily/weekly bill rewards higher and the rewards from killing random hunts lower. This would allow everyone to accrue marks at a reasonable rate with extra rewards for those who choose to spend longer on it. This has improved a bit since implementation, but doing all the bills is still only 200 marks/week, so 7.5 weeks to get one Carbontwine at the expected exchange rate. I'd prefer to see that up to 500, perhaps, especially as you won't get any log drops this way.

2. Make A- and S-rank spawns scale depending on the number of contributors that last killed marks, and calculate contribution more generously. This would allow anyone who hears about the mark within a few minutes of its being discovered to get there in time and contribute, rather than a scramble to get there ASAP and pull before it gets too crowded.

I think these changes would make hunts a lot less stressful.

[Kyomagi]

so wait, did i miss where it carbon items are now for sure obtainable?

[Kyomagi]

so wait, did i miss where it carbon items are now for sure obtainable?

and by obtainable i mean using allied seals

[Felis]

seal reward from daily hunt also got doubled

normal monsters - 8 seals
FATE - 20 seals

[GoonerWolf]

Anyone can confirm if A rank drop just 1 log per monster? Not % based anymore?

[Mature]

If people with no static cannot get access to coat and twine this is perfect and fair way to get them. I enjoy hunts is like having a mini game in-game