S and A rank hunts

[RinoaValentine]

It would be great if we could start level syncing for lower level hunts like we currently do for FATES, especially the level 50 ones. They're dying too fast. It would still provide a challenge and people have additional time to make it the ones they spawn. Thoughts?

[Jeeqbit]

They are certainly aware of the issue of them dying too fast now. They are aware of your proposed solution because people bring it up regularly and they went into quite a lot of detail about it at a fan fest. They are more likely to address it if there's sufficient feedback and discussion about it. Don't expect them to address it until at least 5.x though.

For now, if you want them to survive longer you can:

• Not pull them.
• Spam heals on the MT when pulled.

If you don't want to miss a hunt, you can:

• Find them yourself. You can't miss what you found.
• Spawn them yourself. You can't miss what you spawned and found.

[Liam_Harper]

If you don't want to miss a hunt, you can:

• Find them yourself. You can't miss what you found.
• Spawn them yourself. You can't miss what you spawned and found.

You certainly can miss them. I've known spawners spend a full hour on Nunyunwi, only for a sniper group to hang around, find it first and kill it before the spawners could reach it.

[Kirika-]

See:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Hunt-Proposal

[Jeeqbit]

Nunyunuwi is always a risk, but you can reduce it by moving to the middle when the hour is nearly elapsed, because you can see most spawn points from there.

If there are sniper groups behaving that way, it's probably the worst hunt to invest time in.

[Themarvin]

Hi a lot of problems with A and especially S ranks being early pulled, any chance can enforce or put a system up there like this or actually do something about the players that keep getting reported in for being malicious towards the community, and of that I speak of repeated offenders, I know the expansion is around the corner and more, but really going to do something about this so not not 50% or less of current active people in eg. hunts keep on missing out eg. due to load time for not having SSD drives... not being able to get there because same person(s) are there asap and just start attacking asap or whatever.

Suggestions for fixes:
1. 10 minutes when S rank spawns, where it cannot be hurt or the likes, allowing all to get there qand makign it hard to troll people.
2. Use a fate system, so can't solo any of them at all.
3. move all rank A and S to level 80 with coming expansion, and with that also, for each new tier of armor increase their hp and damage done, so still need actual active people even when we reach the end of 5.0
4. Actual punishment and suspension of repeated offenders, accidents happens for all though, but not 3-4 times in a row same person(s)

Also for those not aware look into this post here as well http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Hunt-Proposal

[Alucard135]

4. Actual punishment and suspension of repeated offenders, accidents happens for all though, but not 3-4 times in a row same person(s)

Why do you think they don't punish those that early pull? Even when reported 100 times, the response is "they did not commit any violations".

Simple reason (which I've said in multiple threads). Hunts are competitive content designed for a full party to be able to handle.

So with that in mind, lets take a look at points 1-3.
1- Why force a 10min wait time in the first place? Would the party that "found" (not spawned) the hunt, benefit from that? Nope, it will only hinder them from killing it. Thus it goes against the design intention behind hunts.
2- Enforcing a FATE system is only applicable for content that are designed to be server content or entire instance content (like Eureka). If you force a max level to sync to hunt level, you're only again hindering that party.
3- You're taking away activity that can be done in previous expansion zones with that. One thing that at least makes the open world in these areas alive is hunts.

Yoshi P in one interview was asked to add signs that a hunt has appeared and he refused saying "We don’t want to make S mob pop’s more obvious than they currently are. I think it isn’t too suited for the game."

Now what people should be discussing and asking SE to solve is the sniffer programs that are used to notify people of S rank spawns and locations. That's the biggest issue that we have now.