What do you find is your favorite method of hunting? Not necessarily the most experience productive, but your favorite?
polearm setting otherwise nexus is just boring
- being a warrior
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It sort of depends which path I'm playing.
On my Poet, I'm best in duos/trios. The more people there are in a group, the harder it is for me to keep ASV synched and take care of everyone. (I generally don't like TBS's, heh~)
On my Rogue, I do kind of like using a PA and vitaing, but not all mages can set, and since Cunning can be pretty weak in higher caves, it's slow. I've only once tried sleep-trapping/vitaing (no mage; my husband is a Poet), and it was okay. Very different from using a PA, which I had grown accustomed to.
As for Mage...well, I don't really know, I haven't played very far on her. Setting seems like it would make things interesting, but I'm no good at yet. I basically just got her 99, and stopped. ^^;
And Warrior...well, she's only level 75, so again, I can't really judge. But, I imagine it would be nice in a trio/duo?
Heh. My two cents. *shrug*
Eh.. my favorite kind of hunting? 6 or 7 years ago I'd grab a poet and mage, go into horse2 with no items equipped except an ilbon knife, and vita on aethers with no warning. That was my favorite kind of hunt.
I chose option three, a duo with a warrior or trio with a mage and a fighter. Prefer warriors, since I'm awful at cycling rogues..
Unless it's like.. "poets for Team Blason" or something, where I just moet. That's me being lazy though..
ZokUrA(Fury): I love overflowing full sets on aethers, I like soloing just about anything, maybe duo with a poet and overflow moving sets.
ZehAn(Force): I love soloing the impossible woodlands bosses.
BaTosAi(Swift): I love soloing just about anything.. or used to but thats a whole other story... Group hunting using cunning and cycling nonstop..
(With very few mess ups)
WiNdDiAblO(Poet): Soloing woodlands bosses & vortex bosses
I don't like hunting at all, but when I do I either like to set for one or two fighters with polearms, or duo with a fighter and no polearm.
If I'm on my mage, I like to set. Setting is enjoyable for me, and I like to challenge myself to make perfect diamond sets while doing BS/Ferno/Overflow sets
If I'm on my rogue, I like to duo with a poet even if it's less experience
If I'm on my poet, I don't really care. I like hunting on my poet the least, but I like PKing on my poet the most, so that's why I'm 1.8/500
If I'm on my warrior, uh... I don't really know, because I pretty much self-leeched myself horse3+, and as I'm kwi-sin, duoing is kind of suicide because I usually end up dying. I still duo with myself in like Chick3, Gorgax+ShaNayNay, and I ww even when surrounded. Sometimes I heal out, sometimes I don't =p Hunting is more fun when there's the danger of dying. Plus, Kwi assault looks hella boss
I don't like to hunt.
If I have to chose a method, cycling attacks with a poet that can handle a rogue in a group with as many people as possible, because its more fun then sitting in a perfect diamond moving forward every 10 seconds or so.
chilin out with a cool poet hanging around in a lower type cave that isnt so horrible just talking and killing things that spawn around us but not really trying to get alot of exp. Fun stuff.
It's almost impossible for me to separate enjoyment of a hunting strategy from experience earned, but I will try. I'd go for setting, just because it's such a constant challenge. The enjoyable sort of challenge, not the annoying sort. There's always room for improvement in your setting, so if you are always working to improve, it doesn't get old. Sleep trap hunting gains second place if only for the fact that I can practically be asleep while doing it.
I kill stuff.
Since I basicly ignore the other character on my account, I can only really say for Warrior.
I prefer to Duo the most. Keeps me keeps me more active than being in a group where potentially some gripe at you to use a PA (and be bored to death using it), or bad paraing that you screw up your attacks. In duos you have to pay attention to your timings for overflow attacks, as well as poet heals to get the most out of your attacks. In the end giving you something more to try and enjoy. Instead of falling asleep on the space bar.
I really like to trio, in Tiger 2, on stance 6...
WOW! I feel buff.
I like kill. =]
I'd like to vita as well, but I occasionally run into some really bad poets who don't keep up with ASV, heal or even scourge.
Considering how much BOD stuff I have, I refuse to vita if the poets won't even do the things a poet should do.
And I don't really care for PAs myself. Enchanted spikes are nice~
My warrior I enjoy using a sword N shield in a grp cuz it kills faster and it leaves the mage to set for the rogue since they need sets more then me.. cuz when i hit r6 i just steal his sets anyway, But a Trio with a good Setting mage is the only time I use PA. (Of course im only like 393/156 so I don't know about the vortex3's yet)
On my mage I don't really care cuz I suck at setting i just para
On my poet I actually prefer to hunt with rogues more than warriors cuz they don't go to like 9% vita all the time so easier to heal and they are a lot harder to let die.
Don't have a rogue... yet so I can only imagine its nothing but PA...
But I think they should buff up the BLOOD and make DA not take all their mana, Also make them a new Invis at like Ee that has duration of 25s but does not uncast if you hit something only time it uncasts if you pick something up or if someone casts dispell. Just my 4 cents.
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Wrong in only that you think hunting with a polearm is any different than a sword.
I fail to see how PA hunting is different than without. You can still vita on aethers, you just have to move. Actually, I find PA hunting easier to hit Assault sets, as long as the mage knows what he's doing. I still PREFER to not hunt with a polearm, but I admit it's much more effective.
I prefer PA setting just because it gives me something to do... In my spare time though I like to hop on my poet and duo some low cave with a warrior or rogue
Diamond Sets.
That's the only way I hunt. Either trio or more people. I haven't really sleep trapping, but I did back then in Hunter2.
Omg Shay <3
Sorry I left. If nexus didn't suck hard I'd play more than 4-6 months a year!
Eventually I'll come get sa, so you have to leech me please.
ill try not to get banned again
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My personal favorite is just ambush+invis.
I'm not a big fan of being in a group or using a PA, I like knowing that taking down a boss was because of me and me alone.
Plus, I don't need to worry about rolling for a drop.
Lol, boss drops. The only boss drops worth the time invested need a group of atleast 5 or 6 to get.
As a mage I like(d) to set. PA+overflow on vita aethers.. whatever
As a poet I like(d) to not hunt at all (but I got his stats from people begging me) but I'd prefer duos over hunts.
As a warrior I like(d) to duo (I had a hard time hunting with other mages.. I'm very critical =P)
As a rogue I like(d) to... I dunno I only really wanted to get him max Ava for pk purposes. Otherwise, boring.
I guess it's all pretty much boring... and yet, why do I find myself here after I've been removed from the game..? =(
Poet + Subpath warrior duo, playing as either.
Subpath warriors have a tendency to use vitas often and well, so the hunts are usually fun.
The subpath tricks also present some interesting oppotunities -
Playing with a barbarian, he can get himself surrounded by four enemies - then summon a horse on top of him, jump over an enemy and throwing axe the horse simultaneously.
Then the healer knows to restore him, and the next second when the three other enemies take a step into a perfect overflow set, he can safely unleash a kwi-sin whirlwind as the healer knows what's happening.
For this reason it's always more fun to hunt with people you're familiar with.
All warriors can try the latter portion of this trick if you are lucky enough to have married or found your blood brother.
The thread, it lives again!
Well generally speaking, you don't use a PA when there is no mage. No mage means swinging mobs, and your vita attacks will not always be on aethers as you will more likely be waiting for a poet to catch up healing you or just in a bad situation to throw out a WW.
Of course the top is amended by the fact you have a poet much stronger than you (higher level heal), are in a lower cave, or are generally fearless =P
Sleep traps...I'm a conformist....plus been trapping for years......
well.. as a 1'hit mage, I miss the days of setting for a fighter and placing a diamond around them.. thats the funnest hunt. beats tetris
as a poet.. I dont care, its all the same.
as a rogue, I like any hunt I can get where I dont have to sleeptrap and I can attack.
As a warrior I like to duo.
I think this answer is pretty much standard... aside from [Content removed]ty mages and lazy rogues.. or maybe buff warriors who understandibly love hunting in Diamonds.
I generally get a diamond of sleeps and a small armada of poets healings there little fingers to premature carpel tunnel. if I hunt with a mage its generally frusttrating becuase my rage is so weak I kill faster with my overflow then my rage...and its just worsened in a duo.
My absolute favorite though was trioing, me, maduin and valandil. It was fun, there was walking, we got great exp, and good company. Big poets need big heals, duoing just isnt much of an option.
People act like "setting" is just PA setting... If you're not PA setting with every creature facing back, bringing in low vita creatures for Overflow ON ALL VITA AETHERS, making Assault sets ON AETHERS, and Fernoing sets ON AETHERS... You're not a "Set mage," you're just a PA mage =P
Depends on stats as well as cave. I still say my design for ST in hunter big is the best system for hunting period. Nobody ever uses it either so meh. It is just so efficient i dont get why it hasnt caught on. But I dont hunt so its whatever.
Even in a buff stats cave, using a mage who can set (not with PA, but OF.. basically making a constant Sa attack set around warrior) and Fernoing on aethers can actually be more efficient and faster exp than STing. It just requires more work from the mage =P
Duoing, however, is faster than either. But it is more dangerous, and costs a lot of money (dura) for the fighter.
so you do full diamond sets minus 2 spaces that feeds into the sets naturally? I rarely hunt so i dont see it, but every time i went that wasnt the case so idk.
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