Thread: The Problem of Hunts and early pulling in 4.0

Well 4.0 hunts hit like trucks and have high HP pools, so if somebody early pulls let them die...

If the problem is a small group of people hunting them, I'd say they are very commited because props to them for spending 15 minutes hitting a dummy for 20 verity.

people pulled hunts wayyy before 4.0 You just have to be at the right place at the right time

Originally Posted by Annah

people pulled hunts wayyy before 4.0 You just have to be at the right place at the right time

Or in a good hunt Linkshell, you can get to the place in under 3 minutes.

Originally Posted by Zakuro_Shishio

There is and has been a problem of Hunts and people deliberatly pulling hunts early.

Report them for breaking TOS by using a 3rd party program. Chances are very high that the early pullers are using a program that tells them where hunt mobs are as soon as they spawn. You'll never know if the GMs take action against those people, but it will make you feel better.

Originally Posted by Beckett

Report them for breaking TOS by using a 3rd party program. Chances are very high that the early pullers are using a program that tells them where hunt mobs are as soon as they spawn. You'll never know if the GMs take action against those people, but it will make you feel better.

Or, perhaps there are websites that list spawn locations, trackers as to when a particular mob was last killed (aka manual tracker with built in timer), and they're actually... and this is a heavy thought, doing the hunting.

Originally Posted by Domeric

Holy crap, I wondered how people kept accurate track of respawn timers.

I don't know if all servers use it, but here on Excalibur we use Ariyala's to keep accurate track of respawn timers. In case you didn't know, that's an independent website, not a third party tool.

The fact is, every pull is early until you arrive, and then the pull is late. Realistically, the only pull that can possibly be early is one that occurs when there aren't enough people present to kill the mob, resulting in an emergency reset and/or wipe. Applying these standards in the case of ARR S ranks, they're soloable, so it's never an early pull. Some HW S ranks are soloable as well with the rest being easily duoed. Be happy you get a callout and that there are people out there spending their time to push triggers while you craft/gather/xp/run around in circles in Rhalgr's Reach. (note by "you" I'm not specifically calling anyone out here)

So, as a funny story kinda related, I joined a full party for the fox fate and people were super nice and patient to not trigger the fate until everyone was there. Right before we were going to activate, the fate disappeared because we took too long, LOL!!! About 60 of us were like "well... that sucks."