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

[Kuwagami]

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THIS!!

just this please. No more slackers complaining for early pulls while those who are searching for them leechers only get half credit. Please do that.


if people misunderstood it, it's just a 3 min timer between target discovery (tag) and current hunt. that leaves 3 minutes for people to come, so no more ninja pulls within 30 secs. Plus the tag timer (6 mins in the example) would allow the hunter to get the reward for the target he found, solving half the leecher syndrom problem (people get more incentive to search)

[BigPapaSmurf]

...Hunts are just a bad place to be the best (and only outside of coil) source for these items...

Oh, don't worry, I totally agree with you. I think it's problematic SE implemented them as the one & only existent, uncapped alternative to Poetics Upgrades (spare the Carbontwine from CT but that's capped to one/week)... having Allied Seals be uncapped with such a reward wasn't the best idea IMO.

As far as S Ranks dying too fast: Hunt Mob Defense/HP needs to either a) scale with average end-game ilvl or b) scale with in-combat participant count.

[Zfz]

I wouldnt say that, FFXIV 1.xx had a claim system and we did not have that much harassment with HNM hunts!

Edit:
Even with patch 2.4 we did not have that much harassment, it always starts because SE giving hunts mats to upgrade into BiS gear (2.3 and now 2.5 again)... Raiders who do not need are equipping their other jobs and beaking the weekly loot rule... Those who can not finish coil are those who suffer the most from hunting harassment.

I'm sorry. I was under the impression that when talking about the design philosophy for this game now, all of 1.x are basically irrelevant.

[Magis]

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

Even if it was a group that does manage to take it down and they have others that claimed other hunts, they could potentially monopolize the whole system, hardly giving any others a chance

They can do what they want with it, but lol good luck sitting on a S rank or an A rank. When people say claim they don't mean reserve, they mean they get aggro, and others can join in, but the loot is claimed to that person (like how ever MMO does it except FFXIV IIRC).

[Sadana]

Sorry, but no.

Increase HP AND have one hit = full credit. This game needs more friendliness, not less. If you want some sort of competitive PvE, SE needs to add in something new so we know about the competitive aspect going in.

[StouterTaru]

That'll get rid of all the animosity associated with hunts, make it so only 8 people get credit while 100 don't. Everyone would be happy then.

[StouterTaru]

They can do what they want with it, but lol good luck sitting on a S rank or an A rank. When people say claim they don't mean reserve, they mean they get aggro, and others can join in, but the loot is claimed to that person (like how ever MMO does it except FFXIV IIRC).

FFXI does not do it that way, and that is what the OP is talking about.

FFXI claim = nobody else can touch

[HulveinBlitz]

I'm still confused to why they don't adjust hunts to accommodate the increase in ilvls.

If they did, probably 50% of the drama will decrease with that alone.

[Zfz]

They can't just adjust it because there are also many people who are at lower item levels. Adjusting it would make it into an exclusive content only suitable for well geared parties. I don't think that's what hunts are supposed to be.

[HulveinBlitz]

They can't just adjust it because there are also many people who are at lower item levels. Adjusting it would make it into an exclusive content only suitable for well geared parties. I don't think that's what hunts are supposed to be.

How so? o.O If they increase its HP, its not going to impact it to that extent.