An example of why the ARR Hunts need an adjustment

[KageTokage]

I kind of wish they'd give a "Thrill of the Hunt" buff or something to people who are present in a zone when a S rank spawns that gives them a bonus of some sort when it dies.

It would probably help motivate more people to actually try spawning the things.

[RitsukoSonoda]

So a group of players are actively spawning and killing hunts before you have a chance to come and claim credit for killing it?

A and S rank hunts are basically the NM/HNM of this game. Everyone isn't entitled to be able to go kill them whenever they find it convenient. If you aren't actively looking for/spawning/tracking them then you have no right to complain about missing the chance to kill one.

[Mirch]

if you want the hunt, do the work and spawn it yourself

stop complain git gud

[Alisi]

On my server there is a small group of players who solo or kill with a very small group all the S/A ranks in ARR zones. It wouldn't really be a big deal, but they don't even report the deaths, so nobody knows when the spawn windows are up. So it's not a case of " if you want the hunt, do the work and spawn it yourself," these players are behaving in a way that literally excludes the rest of the server from being able to participate in a game feature that is one of the only ways to get mount speed upgrades for ARR zones.

All the As have a 4-ish hour respawn time. That's 6 spawns in a day. I doubt one group is killing them all. You have to keep searching or check maybe once an hr for the As.

I've stopped relinking ARR and HW S ranks we've spawned with our little group after we noticed nobody ever helps to spawn (most of the time only us fishing, gathering, killing 150 mobs, doing 1 hour of boring fates etc...), but everyone is 100% READY to whine if they miss the hunt (while being afk of finishing their long 2 star craft or something) and insult in shouts those who did such a great effort to spawn.

I didn't realize walking over a spawn point with a minion out, mining one item, jumping of a ledge, or 30 minutes of rain in a zone qualified as working hard to spawn an S. You say you're the only ones doing the work? Well, gee willy. I wonder why. It couldn't possibly be because you knew when it was last killed and didn't share it with the server. There are the annoying ones like the Bird or the fate driven ones, and you have a point there to an extent, but the vast majority either require no work or very little work. If you keep track of when an S is spawned/killed then you have an a hellava advantage over everyone else -- especially if you're not shouting it. You can't honestly say that no one else tries to make them spawn. People want to kill S's. You simply have a huge advantage over everyone else when you know when it was last killed. Let's not white knight that bad play now.

[SuperZay]

I didn't realize walking over a spawn point with a minion out, mining one item, jumping of a ledge, or 30 minutes of rain in a zone qualified as working hard to spawn an S.

It's extremelly time consuming. If it were as easy as you say, everyone would spawn them. S ranks don't pop when you walk just once or do one jump or mine one item, often you spent in that zone hours and hours before pop. Hours which other players use to have fun and come only to a ready link (and ready to hate), not realising what efforts and time are hidden behind that tiny relink.

[BillyKaplan]

It's extremelly time consuming. If it were as easy as you say, everyone would spawn them. S ranks don't pop when you walk just once or do one jump or mine one item, often you spent in that zone hours and hours before pop. Hours which other players use to have fun and come only to a ready link (and ready to hate), not realising what efforts and time are hidden behind that tiny relink.

They pop relatively simply after maintenance because their timers are without the random element to them. most likely whatever you were trying to spawn wasn't up yet, which is not so much the effort needed to spawn S ranks, but us having no way of knowing if something is really open.

[Alisi]

It's extremelly time consuming. If it were as easy as you say, everyone would spawn them. S ranks don't pop when you walk just once or do one jump or mine one item, often you spent in that zone hours and hours before pop. Hours which other players use to have fun and come only to a ready link (and ready to hate), not realising what efforts and time are hidden behind that tiny relink.

Oh please. You poor thing. Nandi is reeeaaaaaaaaaaaaally hard to spawn. How do you have time to function outside the game? And Laideronnette? Oh jeez! How do YOU do it?! The problem is that I have spawned them and I do hunt As. I know the time commitment required and I think you're full of it. Outside of the harder ones (and there are a few -- as I mentioned before), they don't require a huge amount of work to spawn. That what time they do take is cut significantly by knowing when they were last killed.

That on his server the people are purposefully not tracking (or incorrectly tracking) the S ranks, and not relaying them, so it makes it almost impossible for others who aren't in that elusive club to know what the spawn window is currently at.

He get's what you're saying. He just wants to be an asshole and is trying to justify it.

[AnimaAnimus]

As someone who is not in a hunt ls, if I encounter a hunt in ARR zones I will /sh with pos and wait, if no one comes I kill it.

Didn't know it was a big deal.

[SuperZay]

Some people don't share time of death is because next time they may be spawned when they are offline and nobody will hold spawns for them. It's not in their interests to share if they want a tiger in any reasonable time. Hunts promote extremelly selfish behaviour. But, then again, anyone could spawn after maintenance because everyone is in fair conditions, so why they didn't?

[Velthice]

You aren't owed to know when a hunt mob dies, that's not a guaranteed right you have. There's no unfairness here, it's just a dedicated group of players putting in the work and being successful.