New Hunt Idea?!?!

[Nalien]

Just give us the option to fight our own Hunts with some new form of Levequest... That takes much of the attention off the crappy open world version we currently have, and gives everyone the option to spawn and fight Hunts with their own group, rather than the whole server... Slap in a hierarchy similar to XIs ZNMs and S Ranks can still be as rare as they currently are... You can even use existing quest mechanics to actually simulate an actual hunt with a Levequest-type system...

I really don't think there is any redeeming the current Hunt system... It was a hastily implemented idea designed to appease people clamoring for XI style NMs, but apparently everyone forgot that XI style NMs sucked Ba'als... XI didn't even rely too heavily on the random spawn/stupidly obscure pop condition NM system, XI embraced pop items very quickly and it's more memorable events were built almost entirely around that concept... ZNMs were perhaps the best implementation of that (minus the stupid currency system) and I have no idea why XIV opted to make Hunts similar to King Vinegarroon instead of Sarameya... Same reason we have FATEs instead of Hamlet Defense becoming more of a Campaign type deal, I suppose...

I think I'd actually be even less incline to do Hunts if there was a mandatory 5m warning/waiting time on their spawn... It just makes them even more unfun as there is even more time for more people to arrive... How do people enjoy fighting these things like this?

They are called Hunts because you are supposed to hunt them, not just show up when satellite beams home in on their location and alert your GPS.

To be fair, most already just wait for a shout then show up... A small minority actually hunts them, and I wouldn't even call checking spawn locations to be much of a hunt... Quests that have you kill X for Y so you can attract Z feel more like a hunt to me...