Hunts, again? Really? *drama starting*

[Inferiae]

I'm definitely the "forced" one. I'll only hunt because I still have three more pieces to upgrade on my left side, and then never touch it again. Such nice aspect of the game wasted because of its rewarding system.

Also, calling it a hunt is a joke itself.

[Ashkendor]

And with island exploration taking up peoples time I don't think it's going to be that bad with the elite hunts.

You underestimate people's desire to have i210 gear yesterday with the least amount of effort involved. Hunts are definitely the path of least resistance; I think they will be very busy (and very toxic) for a short while while the most impatient people get enough upgrade mats for their primary classes and possibly 1-2 secondary. Then it'll quiet down and be semi-reasonable again.

I'm probably just gonna keep doing what I do now - daily/weekly hunts and hit up S ranks when I see 'em or A's when I'm nearby.

[Awful]

You underestimate people's desire to have i210 gear yesterday with the least amount of effort involved. Hunts are definitely the path of least resistance; I think they will be very busy (and very toxic) for a short while while the most impatient people get enough upgrade mats for their primary classes and possibly 1-2 secondary. Then it'll quiet down and be semi-reasonable again.

I'm probably just gonna keep doing what I do now - daily/weekly hunts and hit up S ranks when I see 'em or A's when I'm nearby.

That's my plan as well I had a feeling they were going to bring us the joys of hunts again so i've been capped for a long time with centurio seals. It'll be busy for the first while then it'll slowly die down just do your weeklys/dailies and it'll avoid most of the toxicity.

[Morningstar1337]

I;m probably a mix between Casual, Scout Dog (at least when I attmept to hunt) and "forced", sometimes I like them, other times now (though it helps that I filter out the flame wars in /shout) then again I have an FC mate that is in the Well Informed camp, so if I do decide to do hunts I still have a decent chance at getting some 210 piece extra

[RyuSaarva]

I have never done any hunts unless they spawn in the area where I am gathering and I still won't do them since you only need that high item level for savage alexander 5 in the future, though because of this whale extreme party finder minimum item level will be always 200 very soon.

[Morningstar1337]

Hmm, you know I have an idea to this based off one of the ideas int eh OP, we could have the Hunts work on the Guildleve system. You go the board accept a bill, have it show up on the duty finder and force a pop, the catch is that only people in your party/alliance can attack the mob and gain the rewards, and you cannot invite anyone (or kick for that matter) the moment the quest pops.

It's a mix of Treasure Maps and leve allowances, with a set amount if deducted from every player's aloowances once a mark if popped (1 for As, 5 for S, or 10 for As and 50 for Ss, Bs and daily bills don't count) and can be increased overtime and by...doing PvP and old content (benchmark being if it has the Echo applied)

On a side note Daily Hunts the weekly B mark and "current" content will not count toward gaining or losing these allowances for obvious reasons. This is more about making older content relevant as well as my attempt at a solution for the perpetual hunt problem. It's probably a bad idea, and I think the spirit of this has already been suggested before, and that there might be some ways people could abuse (T4 farms like the "A Tankless Job" ones).