Enmity Management, Do we want it back?

[aodhan_ofinnegain]

That's not why people do it.

On hunts, you want to kill the mark RELATIVELY slowly so that all participants can get full credit. Especially in prime-time trains where you can have 150-300 (yes, I've seen that many; you can tell when doing instanced zones how many are in the zones as you go between instances), the marks can vaporize quickly. Like, within 15-20 seconds quickly.

But party contribution (and thus reward for all party members on the boss agro table; having tagged the boss with at least one attack or I think having used a heal on someone who has) is based on reaching some agro threshold.

The result is trying to figure out how to generate lots of boss threat while intentionally NOT maximizing damage. This goes double for doing some of the older hunt trains, like ShB or especially SB A Ranks. The result is that Tanks put on agro stance and spam their ranged attack, and Healers tag the boss then start spamming AOE heals. Especially for prime-time trains, people will swap away from DPS Jobs so that the boss doesn't instantly vaporize. When you have 300 people hitting a mark, it doesn't last long.

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So the Tanks there aren't fighting "to be the Main Tank". They're using a low damage high agro generating button (along with party member Healers spamming AOE heals) to generate maximum payout for their party while keeping the boss alive as long as possible so more people can get credit.

This also goes for S ranks, which will sometimes get even MORE people to them since people try to beat the rush to world travel over to get another S rank on their achievement progress for those rare mounts.

Hunts are not that deep, you generate more than enough with tanks just doing their opener, especially now since all tanks burst in their open, if you can not generate enough threat on a hunt, then you are playing bad, or your whole party is. I've done hunts since HW onwards and never once have ranged attacks been a requirement. Even with the snoozefest that hunts have become with trains.