Why does hunt mob HP not scale?

[RichardButte]

In pretty much every other game I can think of with rare monsters meant to be killed by a large group of people, those monsters' HP scale with the number of people attacking it.

Why is this not so in FFXIV? A ranks are literally MELTING in HW right now (and they melted in ARR as well, TBH)...

To clarify, A ranks would start with a set minimum amount of HP (and be unsoloable), and would gain additional HP for each person that attacks them.

Therefore, if 10 people fight an A rank, it takes 2 minutes to kill.

If 100 people fight an A rank, it takes 2 minutes to kill.

For the record, I enjoy hunting: I like the social aspect of players working together to report locations over a player-created network. It's just that a person actively searching for a hunt mob can miss out on it if it pops at the other end of the zone, even though they were working to find it while many of the people who just rush out and pull it were not.

And, simply put, that SUCKS...