Gnu wrote:
Just don't get how people are getting kills. Even in a Hunt party the mob is dead well before I can zone/travel to a called-out location.
I spent an hour or so with not a single hit on these mobs and realized I'm missing some critical element of this. Do I just need to stick with it longer? Maybe Hyperion is just exceptionally crowded.
Any tips?
Chances are that hunt group was getting its information slower than some of the others.
Getting to anything more than stray B ranks (and heck, even getting a lot of those) is about how quickly you get information. There's a small chance that you can happen to come across an A rank by yourself but there's a far greater chance that one of the dozens of people running around will find it before you do, and that chance is even greater if you abstain from using third party apps. It's far more likely that you're going to see the coordinates called by someone rather than finding them yourself, so aligning yourself with the players who find and call coordinates the most quickly and consistently is going to net the best results. If information has already spread 15 seconds before it got to your particular party or linkshell, considering how quickly these things die, that can easily the the difference between getting credit and not getting there at all.
Ravashack wrote:
Two main questions for you guys on this...
By the way, in response to this story, there was absolutely nothing wrong with what you were doing. I can't exactly tell whether hunts just attract a certain type of people, hunts bring out a certain side or people, or if it's just people being people, but I've both seen and heard stories of players acting pretty ridiculous at times in regards to this content. Even some who are simply minding their own business doing maps have been called to be blacklisted because they "didn't wait" because someone immediately jumped to the conclusion that their map mobs were a hunt.
Edited, Jul 22nd 2014 4:01pm by Susanoh