Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Whether or not lots of players can get credit for Hunts during the zerg doesn't change that they're ultimately mindless, invalidated content because of that zerg. They're very clearly designed around smaller groups (ARR Hunts at 50 in Full Parties were a vastly different experience from the one you get during the more common zerg format). The zerg format largely sped up gearing to such a degree that SE doubled the grind in all future implementations of them (and they further nerfed it again by, as far as I can tell, eliminating Mark Logs from the drop tables of HW Marks).

You may not care about how engaging content is and running around mindlessly zerg-slaughtering Hunt Marks may be fun to you, but there are indeed players who strongly dislike zerg-style content and want to see more interesting fights with meaningful mechanics. We're quite wary of SE's ability to deliver on exciting open world content, as they've repeated the same general mistakes multiple times now with FATEs, Hunts (twice, since they were forced to buff HP values for HW marks as if they'd completely forgotten how we behaved with the old ones), and Diadem.