Early Pulling - Is it wrong?

[Laerune]

If you are working with others and you pull before those players arrive, then yes it is wrong. But in general, aslong as you and your group finds it first, then its yours for the taking.

Afcourse common courtesy is to announce it in zones and give those players few minutes to arrive and kill the HUNT target aswell.

[Joe_Schmoe]

How do early pullers make you feel? How do you approach the situation? How does the situation even make you feel? Do you even care?

I've never done a hunt in this game, but based on my experiences in other games it's a dick move, especially if the mark can be soloed. Not very fun or fair if someone wants the whole pie for himself at the expense of everyone else. That's one case where having open-world PvP is a GOOD thing (classic Runescape comes to mind). If someone tried it then, they'd be dead, probably even focused on before the mark.

[Kerii]

Only if the player is doing it to be disruptive or turns to harassing other players afterwards. In terms of the feature implementation it is meant to be first come, first serve.

[Nihility]

It seems like some common courtesy would be good for everyone.
On Behemoth at least there are two people that everyone that hunts know will rush in asap and pull it before the main group has a chance to arrive every single time.

the friggain things take like 4 hours to come back and are designed in a way that they can give full credit to everyone.
waiting half an hour for the whole world to finish what they're doing and show up is certainly not expected but giving the giant group that is actively hunting 30s or so to collect is not that difficult to do

[Zepla]

I feel like they should give the A and especially S rank hunts a TON more health, to compensate for player gear at this stage.

I think it would help give arriving players a bit more time to load-in, but aside from that, it doesn't feel right to me that an S rank hunt is down in 10 seconds. There's nothing really epic about that - the strongest and most elusive monsters in the world are essentially loot piñatas? While that's cool from a certain perspective... it's still kind of cheap, and lame, imo.

[MomomiMomi]

I feel like they should give the A and especially S rank hunts a TON more health, to compensate for player gear at this stage.

I think it would help give arriving players a bit more time to load-in, but aside from that, it doesn't feel right to me that an S rank hunt is down in 10 seconds. There's nothing really epic about that - the strongest and most elusive monsters in the world are essentially loot piñatas? While that's cool from a certain perspective... it's still kind of cheap, and lame, imo.

That's because it was never meant to be fought by more than around 20-30 people. But people try to accommodate up to 10x that many.

[Kerii]

If they need to do anything it's change hunts so that A's and S's have to be force spawned with full groups(16 for A's, 24 for S's). The feature wasn't ever intended to support more than that.

[Felis]

If the puller is not the tank and the tank is not ready, then yes, it is wrong. Early pulls (like in 24 man raids) can kill all.

But during hunt you only have to wait until your party is ready, not the other parties.

[DamianFatale]

I think its time for Square to make changes for the hunt system. The first thing I would do is make some kind of a hunt claim system. You would have to use a simple tool to claim your hunt, and after a short amount of time, you may proceed to kill. During that short time, combat will be prevented. I would suggest a three minute time on A Ranks, and a five minute time on S Ranks. This could still be abused, people might start leaving players with other hunts in order to "claim them", but this was the best thing I could think of. Early pulling should be prevented.

[Cakekizyy]

No need to change hunts.