Just throwing my worthless two cents in here as an old FFXI player. I really hate how you basically need "trains" to do hunts especially the big ones. The irony is that I want more open world content but it doesn't even feel like a fight most of the time because you hop in and get a hit or two in, and for all the effort and rushing you went through to get in the rewards just don't feel that good "most of" the time imo. FFXIV is for the most part a solo game aside from harder instanced fights, and then all the sudden I gotta go googling data center discords and weasel my way into something just to get in all outside of the game. Coming from FFXI it just doesn't feel natural. So idk maybe keep the hunt system and incorporate an actual NM system with claimable mobs? I know in this community that would probably cause more issues but I mean unless you are in a massive train you aren't hitting those harder marks anyways and if you don't get enough hits in you aren't getting anything even if you showed up. And don't even get me started on if you see hunts and you tackle them yourself to get nuts, if people see you they cry because your messing up "their" train.......in the open world......

Again worthless two cents don't flame me.