Quote Originally Posted by Twilite View Post
..and just where you been at all these years?
Hunting has only really been 'necessary' again pretty recently. You COULD get bloody mark logs from hunting or you could just run the raids or you could do the CT weekly. Plus hunting basically required you to be in an LS to get to hunts on time, so between a high barrier to entry, incredibly blaise game play, and pretty meh rewards that could be acquired in other, less terrible, ways a lot of people didn't bother.

Right now it's only hunting to upgrade gear, and new content/gear is coming out very swiftly putting an impetuous on people to gear up the current best ASAP rather than wait for the trickle through daily/weeklies, so a lot more people are doing than have been for awhile. Which exacerbates all the issues with it, and multiplies them by not being able to select an instance when entering The Churning Mists. Missed like 3 hunts myself just for that so far and I almost never hunt 'cause I hate it.