ninja pulling hunts

[Evangela]

Everybody has the rights to kill any monster in the game. Early pullers didn't do anything wrong.

You're too slow. Get over it.

[Theodric]

Everybody has the rights to kill any monster in the game. Early pullers didn't do anything wrong.

You're too slow. Get over it.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Most people don't have the time to wait around or explore the game world in the hope that maybe there's a A or S rank lurking in the area. With that in mind it's not unfair to consider it good sportsmanship to call out the location and give people 5-10 minutes to gather and assault it.

It makes for a more pleasant experience overall - and it's very telling that it's the norm over on the Japanese servers but not on the EU and NA servers. It'd be interesting to learn if the developers themselves play on the NA/EU servers to see how the method of players tackling content differs compared to over on the Japanese servers.

[_slowpoke_]

explore the game world in the hope that maybe there's a A or S rank lurking in the area.

That's not how most hunting is actually done, though. You don't just go around hoping to stumble upon hunts, it's pretty systematic, actually. Especially for S ranks, which need to be spawned. This is usually done by a pretty small group of players, who often do this constantly and are pretty knowledgeable about all the details, like respawn windows, spawning mechanisms, and spawn locations. On Cerberus it's probably not more than a dozen of players who spawn 80% of the S ranks.

Many of the A ranks are hunted in dedicated parties, where it's common to first announce hunts in party chat, allow everyone who helped scout to get there, and only then shout and post to linkshells. They then usually wait for 3-6 minutes depending on how long it takes to get to the location from the nearest port, then pull. Since they did 90% of the work, it's pretty unreasonable to expect them to wait for half an our until the entire server has gotten their lazy bums there. If you wanna get guaranteed credit for hunts, join a hunting party. It's a lot of fun and way more satisfying than just showing up to quickly kill something that someone else found.