Elite Hunt Marks

[Niiro]

Maybe people will learn to stop bringing DPS to hunts.

(they won't)

[Neon_Sea]

People say that Summoner are the worst for whatever reason. BUT, the only time I have ever got full credit solo on an A rank was with my summoner.

[Dammerung]

That's because they don't use Titan Egi.

[Niiro]

SMN with Titan is the least of all evils (in terms of coming as a DPS) but they still shit things up by adding more objects to display (tho obviously less of an issue now).

[Raldo]

There's also the debuff cap, which means your debuffs may be ignored, or unable to be seen so you can't tell when they wear off.

Personally, I find that SCH is the most useless job in hunts. They don't have the heavy-hitting heals that makes WHM so good, and aside from that, they're just a gimp SMN with no pet. Your fairy generally ain't doin' shit.

[Dotsudoku]

BRDs that use requiem take the award for worst hunt job as far as I'm concerned

[Silenka]

Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing fewer shouts like "put away your pets" and "gtfo smn/sch". The less butthurt the better. I go to hunts on bard all the time now anyway because it's xiv easy mode (and I don't play requiem lol), but it'll be nice if I can choose to play smn again and not get lynched. Didn't think about how much faster S ranks will die now though

[Niiro]

BRDs that use requiem take the award for worst hunt job as far as I'm concerned

Any job that can only accrue credit from damage dealt at a 1:1 ratio is equally shit for hunts.

WAR/PLD/WHM/SMN-Titan or gtfo (SCH is acceptable over a DPS but if you can come as SCH you can come as WHM)

Anyone that does hunts with any regularity can easily get a full i90 set for one of those jobs in a day or so just from mytho and be less of a burden/leech.

[Karbuncle]

So, since I'm pretty ignorant on all things XIV nowadays... I logged on for the free anniversary stuff, and its nice... I'm trying to do Hunts now, and I chose Leech King which is this weeks hunt. I googled some information on where this spawns and such, and It says ~5 seconds(?) after death it'll respawn, and so far I've seen many a different location for its spawn.

Does it just spawn in random places in Mor Dhona or is there a spot I should be waiting at? I've tried to read up on it here too but all the info you have on B Ranks is 30-1hour respawn.

[Kuji]

Could spawn anywhere in the area, just shout it out and someone that have seen it will guide you to it.

[Niiro]

So, since I'm pretty ignorant on all things XIV nowadays... I logged on for the free anniversary stuff, and its nice... I'm trying to do Hunts now, and I chose Leech King which is this weeks hunt. I googled some information on where this spawns and such, and It says ~5 seconds(?) after death it'll respawn, and so far I've seen many a different location for its spawn.

Does it just spawn in random places in Mor Dhona or is there a spot I should be waiting at? I've tried to read up on it here too but all the info you have on B Ranks is 30-1hour respawn.

B ranks used to be 40-60 min respawn and they gave seals/tomes to anyone that killed them just like A and S ranks.

Last patch changed them so that they respawn immediately and only give rewards to people who have the weekly hunt bill for the mob.

Hunt mobs can spawn pretty much anywhere in the zone, the only exception I know of is Hellsclaw (A rank in E. Lanos) which only spawns in the western half of the map.

[Vlorsutes]

Hunt mobs can spawn pretty much anywhere in the zone, the only exception I know of is Hellsclaw (A rank in E. Lanos) which only spawns in the western half of the map.

I've had people that attest that it can, albeit rarely, spawn on the Costa side before. I've never seen it spawn on that side before, but I know they wouldn't say they've seen it on that side unless they legitimately did.

[Ratatapa]

i've had Hellclaw on Costa, near the Kobold mini camp (not too far from the boat that takes you to the west side)

[ilifin]

Screenshots or it did not happen. I have a bounty out on Excalibur for someone to send me a screenshot from after the hotfix that ninjanerfed most of the S ranks.

[Ratatapa]

It won't happen since I don't hunt anymore. But it's your choice to not believe me

[dejet]

I've had people that attest that it can, albeit rarely, spawn on the Costa side before. I've never seen it spawn on that side before, but I know they wouldn't say they've seen it on that side unless they legitimately did.

Someone just saying so, unless you can prove that theirs no reason to think otherwise, did hunts for like 2 weeks none stop never saw that guy spawn once there.

[Arthars]

whm and war+pld onry in hunts

also havent seen costa hellclaw in like ever..

not saying i dont believe what the "few" people said but........nope

[Karbuncle]

If anyone on Sargatanas could shoot me a invite to a hunt LS, I'd appreciate it... tried shouting in Mor but got nothing. IDK where else to look :I

Blaise Destin

[HitomeOfBismarck]

So went around spamming honey muffins in Central Than. with Brontes window at 99% according to FFXIVhunts.

I must have went through at least 46 honey muffins running around the zone. The exact second I popped my HQ buttons, he popped on me. Whether or not the food has to be HQ, that there is a threshold to be met, or that it was sheer coincidence that he spawned after 47 food was eaten, IDK. But at least I can confirm a spawn location in front of the gate.

Spoiler: show

[Silenka]

As someone suggested in that hunts megapost on the OF, many of these could be a lottery pop off player behavior (eating, catching fish, etc). I routinely try to pop Zona Seeker by catching glimmerscale - sometimes it pops immediately after 1 glimmerscale, and sometimes it doesn't. That suggests to me a lottery, although it could also easily be "catch one and then it pops sometime in its window" and the immediacy of it sometimes just happens to be luck.

It's so nice to be able to see S ranks now, but as predicted, they die extremely fast. Except for the one in Outer LN last night, wherein someone at SE thought it would be hilarious to allow it to pop in one of the absolutely tiny dead-end rooms in the mines - couldn't even see more than its feet/claws, hard to target, nowhere to run from Mortal Ray, piles of corpses everywhere and when there were only a couple people left alive someone decided to reset it. Good times!