SE wildly irresponsible with hunt reward implementation yet again

[Cfai]

Let me try to provide another insight to back up my statement and my perspective:

I myself, and a few more players yesterday used all of our levemetes (100), attended every nodes every 24 hours, pop a lot of food, dying and respawning repetitively to spawn 8-10 S Ranks. I am not using Guildworks, nor am I against it (Remember, if it is not fun, you are doing it wrong). However, there are players that just afk, stand still, craft, and abuses Guildworks to notify them when an S Rank spawns. Did these people ever contribute? Nope. If I and some hunt leaders do not initiate a lead, will the S rank ever spawn by GW users? Yea, maybe the "good" GW users.

[psycho4r5]

I am on Excalibur and I can tell you hunts, which I use to really enjoy are a complete joke now. I am only on coil T6 currently and my avg Ilvl is 113 so currently the only way for me to get ilvl130 is hunts. I port the second my hunt LS announces and I often shout to hold pull for a minute and since the patch I have missed 80% of hunts. Something needs to be done about this you would think otger players would be courteous enough to hold pull but they are not so SE please do something.

[Valoiz]

Hunts madness again, last time i lose 1/4 of my FC cuz they stoped playing.... i am amaze SE did the same mistake again.. toxic enviroment again....

[Xellos2099]

I am on the same server as Cfai and Psycho4r5 and the issue is pretty bad too. IMO, it is the self entitle brat who keep pulling early or just being a jack ass. No joke, one time i was in a hunting pt i was on the other side of outer la scouting and the pt leader say it is on the port side. I port right away and it is dead before i even got there.

[Yumi_umi]

Also i think the amount of ppl concentrated into 1 a rank is technically = to the population of the ppl in mor on a normal day ( i.e no new patch or events )
And s rank is like all the cities + mor population combined.
If only they gave out fcob tome upgrade loot for being afk in mor we would be back to normal.
On a serious note, higher hp might work but it would really backfire if ppl quit hunting due to hunts taking too long to kill and missing other windows etc. once the hunt pop. Goes down normal a ranks will take forever to kill as a small group/ group of groups. So in some ways more hp would help but in other ways it'll just make things worse. Kinda a 1 step forward 2 steps back thing.

[Chek]

Its probably asking a lot, but if they intend on sticking with the hunt system (which I assume they are since they talked about adding in higher tier ones that are bigger than S ranks), they should come up with a flex mechanic that will adjust the strength of the mob depending on the amount of players in a certain radius/zone.

[MirielleLavandre]

I think SE knows exactly what they are doing, which to me, is prolonging the time people continue playing until the expansion. Making these items available via Allied Seals is a tremendous 'carrot on a stick' to the huge majority of the player base that doesn't or cannot do FCoB. Knowing that by just grinding out a ton of AS to buy enough logs to get their gear to full i130 (not even going to point out that if people aren't doing Coil - like me -- they don't even need anything really above i110), many people will do just that. Soon, I expect SE to further incentivize people to continue playing through to the expansion by releasing these items in WoD -- which people will then spam until they are done, much like people do now with sands and oils. By the time everyone is done chasing the full i130 or whatever the max is gear treadmill, Heavensward will be here and all of that gear will be reset with a new treadmill beginning at level 60.

[Hiruke]

I think SE knows exactly what they are doing, which to me, is prolonging the time people continue playing until the expansion.

Well, I don't.

Anyway, you say that like people wouldn't be running WoD anyway, or the new dungeons. There's good stuff already for folks who aren't blitzing Coil and don't have max iLVL. And in a month you have Golden Saucer, which has even more for folks to do, and yet another patch a month after that, with only a couple month gap before the expansion hits.

Having twine on both WoD or something similar as well as hunts wouldn't do much to discourage people from continuing to play. You think having the best stuff on hunt marks is the optimal way to get people to keep playing when anyone on a console or has an HDD instead of an SSD has essentially 0% chance of getting to a hunt mark before it dies? Yeeeah. Ok.

[Cfai]

I think SE knows exactly what they are doing, which to me, is prolonging the time people continue playing until the expansion .

Well said. Not to mention that SE will always do something about the contents that are abandoned or have issues with, a few big examples:
1. Hunts are abandoned = use the coate/twine to make it hyped up again
2. Fates and Levemetes are abandoned to Level 50 players = 9 atma books.
3. New players are abandoned and have long queues in HM mode = Relic Light Farm.
4. CT and ST are abandoned = weekly reward for carboncoate.
5. First coil was abandoned = allagan material drops.

You can quote me back on this when next patch comes before 3.0 I bet 99% of the chances the next relic upgrade to i130 (shiny version of i125 obviously) will be low-level dungeon drop just to mitigate the long dps line up, probably with some second coil material drops.

[Bushido_Brown]

You can quote me back on this when next patch comes before 3.0 I bet 99% of the chances the next relic upgrade to i130 (shiny version of i125 obviously) will be low-level dungeon drop just to mitigate the long dps line up, probably with some second coil material drops.

And let's not forget EX Primal runs -_-