......if they are going to force them on the player near the end of the Main Quest Line.
Seriously.
Okay, so I beat Ultima Weapon yesterday, after long hours of Main Questing to get up to that point. I'm Lv50 now (I dinged Lv50 the day before), and everybody says "DO HUNTS!" to get gear.
Well..... okay I'd love to, but...
The main quest must be finished in its entirety. I beat Ultima Weapon, and now I have to blow ... a good sum of gil in teleports running around doing things like "Go to Ul'dah, talk to Goldsmith, go back to Mor Dhona, then go to Gridania, kill 10 mobs pick up 3 items and go back to Mor Dhona..."
Oh....and do a Lv15 Guildhest, then a Lv30 Guildhest...
That's the part where I left off, because... as a healer, the Lv30 Guildhest... I wanted 30 minutes for and still didn't have it. That was after waiting 20 minutes for the Lv25 guildhest I haven't unlocked yet, because the Randoms never give me anything higher than Lv15s, with the rare Lv20.
Why?
Because nobody does these.
Why doesn't anybody do these?
Well, anybody who has done a Random Guildhest as a Lv30 knows, it barely dents your XP meter and the gil offered is a pittance.
I can see why they threw the Guildhests into the Main Quest Line, they want people to do them. Okay, sure, that's fine. I don't mind doing them. I do, however, mind the wait times. I want to do Hunts because that's "THE" way to get gear, right? Well......I can't. Because they appear to have gated it behind the Main Quest. Because, I guess, slaying Ultima Weapon doesn't qualify as "show me you can overcome near death situations" or something, lol.
Anyways, I bet most people who get through this get their FC to do the Guildhests instead of waiting on it. Well, in my FC... most of the people are hanging out in Coil, or CT/ST, or what-not and are almost always in dungeons. But therein lies the point: If they wanted players doing Guildhests to beef up the Duty Finder usage... they're not doing a very good job of it, because people going in as full FC groups are not helping the ridiculous wait times, right?
Simply put, they need to buff the rewards from Guildhests, especially those beyond Lv20 if they want wait times to be anything reasonable. 30 minutes for a healer is just ridiculous. But the problem is, I must do it, because so much cr*p is gated behind it. I'd love to do the Guildhest, really I would. But the wait times just turn me off.
I'm currently at 8 hours /played after Ultima Weapon....and I still can't do hunts. By the time I can, I probably would have gotten enough Myth out of Roulettes to buy a whole sodding set of armor and won't even need the bl**dy hunts in the first place, lol.
Sorry about the rant thread, it's just.... I think they could have handled this a bit better.
EDIT: Wow, you can't talk about bl**d on ZAM now. haha.
Edited, Sep 17th 2014 10:23pm by Lyrailis
Edited, Sep 18th 2014 7:55pm by Lyrailis