What's wrong with a little competition? Hunts need a claim system.

[BigPapaSmurf]

Simple. Give everybody a "Tag" ability to unlock.

Once a Hunt is tagged, with minimal effort, your party will receive full seal/tome credit.

Once tagged, the Hunt could become invulnerable for 3 minutes to provide time for your other party members to assemble (or to form a party if it were found solo).

See at bottom for finer details.

This would solve:

1) early pulling drama (socially healthy)
2) finder's not getting their due cred (socially healthy)

Lastly, Hunts do need their HP% raised proportionally with average end-game ilvl.

That or having their defenses scaled with # of in-combat participants.

Hunts Solved.

And I don't wanna hear "people need to just stop whining about early pulls or getting 'cheated' out of credit"... this' a systemic, macro-societal issue similar to a "mob mentality" or riot group.

People's nature in this context will not change on the whole, the design of Hunts needs to change.

People aren't going to stop mass-zerging Hunts, for instance, so long as they're both relevant and viable.

The 'people' can only do so little, it's up to SE to do something in view of the fact the players' behavior won't change on a mass-scale.

What if its a solo player that claims it, and just sits on it, thus locking everyone else out? Abuse potential is high...

Once the 3 minute invulnerability expires, the mob would be fair game for anybody to attack; no way to abuse that whatsoever.

And if the finder/tagger leaves the region, the mob becomes untagged entirely (forfeit).

The tag's monster invulnerability effect & tag bonus/immunity could even be separate 'debuffs' on the Hunt Mark.

Tag Invulnerability Effect: monster is invincible for X minutes (suggested, 3)

Tag Bonus/Immunity Effect: full-credit is guaranteed & monster cannot be 're-tagged' for Y minutes (suggested, 6) or until force-expiration due to region-exit.