Your thought on Elite HuntsFollow

As someone who has not played since november, what makes these different from FATEs other than not showing up on the map?

1. Unique monster
2. No map indicator, no time, just an icon over the head letting you know it's a hunt target.
3. Rank A are not soloable by a level 50. They don't scale down in difficulty if few folks are present, like FATEs.
4. you get allied seals instead of grand company seals. Allied seals buy different things than grand company seals.

Edited, Jul 11th 2014 9:25am by Valkayree

I'm a little mixed on these so far. The concept seems nice to me, but the implementation seems a little odd.

For one thing, they went with the choice of giving the vast majority of these things extremely low HP, and requiring an adequate contribution level in order to get any decent amount of seals or credit for your weekly hunt. This not only leads to a situation where the things die so quick that you're likely to be unable to get there before one person pulls it and it gets zerged down, but also a situation where even if you do make it in time to kill it, if you're not already in a party that also has people who were lucky enough to get there in time, you still get no credit. Which I've actually seen happen personally. Someone shouted that Naul was up, and I was pretty close by. By the time I got there, someone had pulled and he was at 50% health. I got off literally one shield lob before he died, which IIRC gave me 1 allied seal, and didn't give me credit toward my weekly.

I've also tried hunt parties which have members all searching around the world and calling people in when they see one. This seemed far more efficient than trying to get the weekly hunt, since even one A rank gives as many seals as the bonus from the weekly which was massively overcamped. This can work, but it seems to be the most fun when there's the fewest people playing. The more people in the world that want to participate, the less likely you are to get to get to see a decent amount of mobs in a reasonable amount of time.

Overall it seems about as fun as FFXI NM hunting, maybe a bit more actually, but I never really found that to be an overly fun event to begin with. More of a time sink than anything. Treasure maps are far more fun to me than open world spawns. If treasure maps were fully fleshed out, they could be end game content along the same lines as ZNM was which I found far more enjoyable than traditional open world spawns, mainly because I spent my time doing more than just waiting around.

I don't mind that they're so weak necessarily. I just think it's very odd that they made them so weak AND gave everyone the same mob as the weekly. They need to either give everyone a different target (like with dailies), or buff the HP of whatever the mark of the week is. Either option would solve a lot of the issues.

I just don't get this game some times. I look at issues like this and can only think "how did the devs not see this coming a mile away?"

I agree that giving everyone the same weekly is a really odd decision. But I'm not sure if making adjustments to just that would solve a lot of the issues people have with it (although it would be a start). It might help for people who just want to collect their rewards from the board and be done with it, but for anyone who wanted to engage themselves in the content as a whole, moreso than just once a week, everything else would remain roughly the same as it is now.

The irony of this post.

Anyway, looks like people are using XIV-APP to bee line straight to Elite marks as they pop and it's causing quite the stir, so while XIV-APP may be "ok'd" by SE, that may soon change.

It's another reason why I don't support theses kinds of content. It was something heavily exploited in FFXI as well, though the drops there unique, and the spawns rare.

All it takes is one Linkshell. The members of the LS do not even have to be aware that any member is using the tool. They just have to have the tool and send out a call in the LS that they located one. The rest of the LS is unaware of the cheating involved and the content gets monopolized by a few.

Edited, Jul 12th 2014 10:22am by Hyrist

Maybe I'm missing something, but what confuses me is the new i70 gear. Why does it cost 1000-2000 notes for i70, when you can buy preexisting i90 for 20-40 notes?

The new content/activities don't feel well planned out. it just doesn't seem like they really know what they're doing lately.

There are a large group of people waiting in a zone to participate in an event. The only difference between this and a FATE is that a FATE has a signal of when and where it's started. With hunts you need a player to notify you(or as we're seeing, FFXIV APP's map tools) before you rush off to participate. You might be forgetting, but I actually spoke up for SE when this was first announced because I thought it would work differently. It doesn't and subsequently, it's become another 'more of the same' addition.

There is a difference between RPG games having swords and spells, and an RPG that continues to use the same sword model, spell effect, ect. That's what is happening with this event. It's nearly identical to something you already have. SE could have just tacked these rewards onto FATEs and actually spent some time trying to bring something different to the table for the hunt system.

The hunt mobs could spawn from a bill which would be obtained based on a timer.
B = hourly
A = daily
S = weekly

When you read the bill the mob spawns in the zone then you go find it like a treasure HUNT.

Get a group together with a bunch of players who have bills and Zerg away or not but then at least you're not creating Fates without the little blue circle on the map which is really all this is.

Of course my idea is just treasure maps without the map or chest I guess so idk lol

Edited, Jul 12th 2014 5:51pm by LebargeX

I like the idea of the hunts and the gear. I don't particularly care for how it was implemented. Monsters should last longer. Everything is immediately zerged before you get to it plus the minimal notes you receive for the kill just make it not worth it. I understand people saying you shouldn't attack new content because everyone is doing it, but I feel like the devs should have foreseen this and made them harder to kill or last long enough for people to get to them and kill them. THEN when things begin to die down and people arent doing them so much start to lower their hp or wtv.. But as it stands now, I have wasted two days (roughly 10 game play hours I squeeze between rl stuff) and only have 100 notes to show for it from the zerge of the HL spawns.. Again, I love the idea behind hunts, I really do. But at the moment its too frustrating and im not going to bother for a while.

On a side note and off subject... I LOVE front lines. Its a ton of fun. Just started it today and have been spamming it.