[maka]

More loot from monsters ? Well....to start with I would have agreed, but I found out myself that I just didnt know where to go, so after joining a few hunting groups, I can now see it is fine and I enjoy it very much.

The fact that you, and many many others, couldn't find out good hunting spots means that it needs to be balanced a bit better. All the places in the world should not be a hunting haven but it should be easy enough to make a decent living in the "normal dungeons".

When I actually played last time I was hunting with Crow (my friend) for a decent bit. We tried to GM our crafts (Me scribe, he alch) but decided to stop around 90ish as it seemed to be enough. Hunting for us was more than adequate but since a lot of new people don't agree, it feels like we do need to change it somehow.

We were not hunting for gear, just for cash so we can buy resources to macro. My experience from what I saw from this (a long time ago, no clue if hunting has been change for the worse, but I do not think so) was that it wasn't too bad, but then I'm also counting that I got magery and that I had decent archery.

I understand your idea of advertising this shard as something else, and I believe it can be good if it can bring players. More players = move PvPing for everyone but people need to understand that it is not a pure PvM shard. If they thought that it was, logged on, saw the PvPing then they would log.