Have you gated upgrade parts behind Hunts AGAIN, SE!?

[Tyrial]

Will it share a loot lockout with the actual gear, or be seperate in VA?

Unless they changed their minds it's supposed to be separate from the gear. They said that they didn't want people to have to choose between taking a gear piece or an upgrade item, but you're limited to one each per week.


Rewards
You can receive only one reward item per week for completing duties in the Void Ark. In the event you are awarded an item from the loot list, you relinquish your right to vie for all remaining items regardless of whether you selected Need or Greed. If time expires and a reward item is obtained automatically, this will also count toward the weekly limit.
* Reward eligibility is reset every Tuesday at 12:00 a.m. (PST).

Each party in the alliance will receive its own treasure chest, the contents of which will be identical regardless of the route taken.
* Players cannot open a treasure chest belonging to another party.

Completion Reward
Upon completing the Void Ark, players can also earn a separate reward once per week. This reward can be exchanged with Bertana in Idyllshire (X:5 Y:5) for items used to enhance equipment purchased with Allagan tomestones of esoterics.
* Reward eligibility is reset every Tuesday at 12:00 a.m. (PST)

[Kuroyasha]

Someone in my FC has stated that upgrade parts are, yet again, gated behind hunts.

You're just going to get people mad AGAIN at the hunts, SE.

Just stick glamour stuff into hunts and call it a day, PLEASE.

Don't make it essential.

It's no different than what they've done with hunts every catch-up patch. You do have options to get stuff if you dont want to go that route.

[UltimateAoe2]

You're using the word gated in the wrong way.


srsly. They're just made available outside of Alexander Savage. Stop yo crying.

[BreathlessTao]

My only issue with this is.... Regardless of wording and semantics (really, we can argue infinitely about those)...

It happened twice that they added gear upgrade parts to hunts. Both times it created the absolute worst environments to play in, and you didn't even have to participate or even be bothered about the fact of "upgrades via hunts" at all. It was more than enough to simple be in any given zone, and witness the hateful, toxic interaction that went on every single time there was a hunt mark to be slain. The name-calling, the b×tching, the hostility of it all was really the absolute worst both times. Sure, you can disable /shout, but like with using /busy against RMT /tells - is that really the actual intended use of that mechanic? Shutting down entire communication channels in a game that's supposed to be social? Yeah, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth, imo.

Not looking forward to this at all.

[Colorful]

Why are they limited weekly to Void Ark while being available freely through Hunts? If they truly want to gives us alternatives, that's how it should have been. Hunts are terribly designed, the worst part of the game and the majority consensus is that they just create needless toxicity among the community, why do they keep insisting on bringing them back time and time again without changing how they work?

[Canadane]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

[Tyrial]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

Nope, but it would be nice if SE would learn from their past mistakes. The whole hunt system should be reworked.

[Colorful]

Hunts aren't going anywhere. Are you expecting them to just drop the entire system?

I expect them to revamp it entirely, if they're not willing to do that then yes, I expect them to drop it just as they dropped guildhests.

[Malakai]

I've actually been enjoying hunts since they have died out due to everyone hardcore grinding on them from the start. The past month all the 2.0 and 3.0 A ranks are almost always up and nobody killing them so I've taken a few of my FC members who don't get to do hunts and went out as a small group of 2-4 people and killed them all. Was a nice way to help people get achievements and some extra seals and law for other things, but honestly low manning them is pretty fun to do. They are all duoable except the two A ranks in hinterlands, those you do need a few more people. What super irritates me when they become popular is people demand everyone wait for 30-60+ people to show up for an A rank kill just so they can all hurry up to bumrush their upgrades. Hence why it's only good to bother with them if 1) you are in that zone and 2) you "really" need to do it. Otherwise it's just best to pass on A and S ranks during the craze. That or form your own small party to dedicate to hunting.So there you have it some new ways to upgrade your gear, which people are always asking SE for alternative ways to do this. Remember the huge fuss when they asked to trade in Law instead of Hunt Seals for Eso upgrades?

1) Alex Savage the same system as it has been. Challenging hard content and getting rewards unique to that content + upgrade rewards for the casual side.
2) Void Ark weekly system. Congrats you have 100% way of obtaining a gear upgrade piece. Yea it's a weekly thing but it's 100% and only requires you to do it once. Meanwhile you are getting other gear from this content.
3) Hunt seals to buy. If you do it casual you can easily make around 800 seals casually in a week just by doing your 3.0 dailies and weekly, which is 1 clan book per week since it costs 500 seals to buy. So it's the same as the other 2 being "weekly".

However yes there is no limit on hunts after all there's 2 A ranks in all 3.0 zones, so 12 there, and 1 A rank in all 2.0 zones, so 14 there. That's 26 A ranks that spawn every 3 hours or so based on when they were killed. That can add up over time but it's a huge time sink and it's likely that not everyone is going to be getting to those ranks constantly back to back. Let alone people know these things can be killed by 2-4 people so most likely there are going to be those who form up their own small parties to do them and not share death times, so times are all going to be on and off. Then there's the S ranks are always shouted and zerged to death as soon as a # of people show up. So those who are going to be dedicating their time to A/S hunts are going to stress themselves out. So the casual people are going to be getting 2 things per week one from Void Ark and one from Hunts that's pretty simple and easy to do. On top of that there's still the tome caps and scrip caps.

Honestly I don't see why the huge fuss over hunts still tho, especially since they are pretty much dead atm. Why in such a rush to upgrade gear? By the time it's upgraded there's going to be a new patch with new gear out. What is the point of maxing out the gear anyway when almost all the casual content in the game can be face-rolled with dungeon gear and tome gear? The only annoying part that is going to come back is seeing the chat box flooded with "inv!" "Wait! Don't pull!" "Reset please!" and the other things but that will end in another 2 months or so.