Hunts and Trains; please fix the Hunts!

[Hysterior]

Let rushed people rush, in a week or two it will be better.

[ErysNight]

I completely agree that it would be nice is SE made it so that the S and A ranks were always visible in a wider radius. The current proximity requirements are too short.

But I completely disagree with the notion that there is something wrong with World Visit/Cross-World Hunt Trains. Hunts are significantly quicker, incredibly well organized and the "Hunt Heroes" that we have that scout and conduct trains are fantastic. Why should a train take longer when people can go to multiple hunt trains a day and farm all the amazing rewards? I want SE to connect all the DCs on NA rather than close things off again.

Yes, the situation isn't perfect. Move closer to the hunt and get over it. Git Gud. It's incredibly selfish to be like "oh, I have to try a little bit harder to see the hunt, so let's just close it off so I'm personally accommodated".

SE if you see this, please don't close down this awesome expansion of community content for a vocal minority. Take a look at the data, the number of hunt participants and maybe the chat. Hunts are better than ever and the people that actually participate regularly appreciate it.

P.S. Aether is amazing. I am so grateful for our hunt community.

[cicatriz313]

Just coming here to say that I find nothing wrong with the hunts. While I have had issues where I cannot teleport to a zone right away or a mob disappears while I am shooting spells as a SMN, both issues are quickly rectified either by trying to teleport in a few seconds or just moving closer to the mob. As I am in a party I have yet to not get credit on these hunts. Of course threads like these will come up as hunts are in high demand right now due to upgrades being linked to them, however I think that any attempt to change hunts for the people who are upset now will disrupt hunts for the worse for anyone doing hunts for the rest of the time outside of the few weeks that they are extremely popular on the odd patches.

Also, hunts are extremely efficient and rewarding as they are now. Someone mentioned "are hunts fun?" in the current iteration. I would say that while they aren't as engaging as other types of content, they aren't NOT fun. What ISN'T fun is what hunts used to be, over an hour to do them all, or people killing hunts with a small group of people on their own, rather than saving them all up for a cohesive all-encompassing smash-through. The train takes like 20-30 minutes now, which I find extremely satisfying.

[ACE135]

For players who were dedicated to hunts and had fun with them, an hour of hunting would be more time to have fun than just a few minutes.

For other players a patch with many story quests would be fun because they can spend a lot of time with the story while for others would just one or two quests be good because they could be done fast and they have morer time to do other things.

There will always be people who like content how it is and people who don't like or have never dealt with that content. And whenever content gets changed by SE to get more people who didn't like or never dealt with it into that content, some people inevitably will dislike the changes. That goes for everything, not just for hunts.

[Soupa]

Easy big brain solution, do hunts without the train.

[ACE135]

Easy big brain solution, do hunts without the train.

The thing is, almost no one does hunts without a train anymore because everyone got used to the easy flow. And the majority of people will use the way with least resistence.

[Soupa]

The thing is, almost no one does hunts without a train anymore because everyone got used to the easy flow. And the majority of people will use the way with least resistence.

A ranks can be usually done with a party of 8 and you can call to your linkshells/FC/area. Yeah it’ll take longer then usual but mission accomplished either way.

[Gula]

A ranks can be usually done with a party of 8 and you can call to your linkshells/FC/area. Yeah it’ll take longer then usual but mission accomplished either way.

And they spawn every hour. If you can play XIV for even 2 hours a day, you're guaranteed to get some in.

[Jojoya]

A ranks can be usually done with a party of 8 and you can call to your linkshells/FC/area. Yeah it’ll take longer then usual but mission accomplished either way.

Which is the problem for a lot of people - they don't want to spend 8-10 minutes for 10 Allegory, 20 Phantasmagoria, 30 Poetics and 40 Sacks of Nuts when they can spend 20 minutes and get 120 Allegory, 240 Phantasmagoria, 360 Poetics and 480 Sacks of Nuts.

And they spawn every hour. If you can play XIV for even 2 hours a day, you're guaranteed to get some in.

No, they don't. HW/SB/ShB Rank As have a 4-6 hour respawn timer. If you're only playing two hours a day, you can miss out even with world visit depending on when the trains were run.

[Gula]

No, they don't. HW/SB/ShB Rank As have a 4-6 hour respawn timer. If you're only playing two hours a day, you can miss out even with world visit depending on when the trains were run.

Oh wah then. Why do you have to rain doom and gloom so hard over something optional and insignificant? Go to a different world, you know you can do that right? If, unrealistically speaking, every single A rank on your world from ARR to SB and every instance of ShB is dead... go elsewhere.