The hunt solution: scaling HP (used in GW2 and WoW already...)

[RichardButte]

I'm surprised FF isn't using this...

The premise is simple: when a hunt mob is being attacked by 10 players, it has enough HP for those players to kill it in 2 minutes.

When the same mob is being attacked by 100 players, it gains enough HP that it will take those players 2 minutes to kill it.

For each additional player fighting the mob, it gains X HP (only the devs know what X should be).

That way, mobs don't melt in seconds because someone pulls early. This would be a VASTLY better way to regulate hunts, not only to prevent zergs from melting the critter, but also to ensure that a hunt mob could be handled by ~10 players (or less) on lower pop servers if need be.

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Insert "WoW has this, so I don't want it even if it's a good idea" comments.

[RichardButte]

Insert "WoW has this, so I don't want it even if it's a good idea" comments.

Heh, probably, but WoW stole it from GW2 since they used it first.

Also, MMOs steal from each other all the time. I Yoshi-P was a WoW fan before he took the reigns and WoW has definitely stolen a few things from FFXIV already...

[Taaku]

I feel like this is how it should be. FATE's already have something similar, albeit not as good. monsters hp is scaled depending on the size last group that killed it, so they at least have the means to measure how much HP to give a monster based on how many people beat it up lol.

[Zumi]

WoW kind of stole the party finder from FFXIV but they improved it and made it cross server. Now if only SE could make a cross server party finder.

[Sove92]

There is no such thing as early pull. Finders, keepers.

[Squintina]

I think that sounds like a reasonable suggestion, not sure if SE would do it based on last number of participants (like in fates), or based on people within a certain radius, or people in the map prior to aggro - and perhaps it's best if, whatever version of "scale" they do use, they don't tell us. But indeed some form of scaling would be appreciated.

[Felis]

Single enemies in GW 2 have no scaling HP, if i remember it correct. The whole zones have level-sync.

[LunaHoshino]

This just seems like it would be way too easy for people to grief by running in, attacking the mark, and then leaving, thus making its HP skyrocket.

[Chiramu]

This just seems like it would be way too easy for people to grief by running in, attacking the mark, and then leaving, thus making its HP skyrocket.

This happens in FATEs already. You are a lone levelling job and a level 50 jumps in and defeats the FATE mob with you. The next time you run into it you cannot get it down.