Good thing jungle troll chieftains are nice and squishy.

Starchitin

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<Unlike heirloom looting bounties -- the universal worst bounty between vastly different kinds of characters IMO.>

I never had a problem with heirloom tasks.... Bandits and escort bounties are the ones I won't do with any of my characters.

Starchitin

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I think the highest I've seen has been 30 but I don't pay all that much attention to the number (28? 32? it's around 30, close enough). It seems to be directly tied to the level of the critter you are being assigned to cull vs. your training level with a small random factor throw in. If you are seeing 30 (or even 32) my guess is that the creature you are being assigned to cull is likely 5 levels or so below you.

If it's a low level (comparatively) critter then it's a fair assumption your number is going to be high even if you don't know the specific number.

As far as sharing tasks goes, you can actually have the shared person drop and re-accept and they will potentially get a different number of critters (found this out when a hunting partner tried for a better task) but they may also be subject to having to wait 15 minutes before they can re-accept your task.

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>As far as sharing tasks goes, you can actually have the shared person drop and re-accept and they will potentially get a different number of critters (found this out when a hunting partner tried for a better task) but they may also be subject to having to wait 15 minutes before they can re-accept your task.

Yes, that would defeat the point of using a bounty boost in the first place to forfeit the wait...

<I've had a couple of scenarios where I had between 7 and 15 more than the person I joined to help cull. Bandits, and both capped characters.>

Not sure about 15 more. The max you should have over another capped character is 10.

I've never seen the reps range outside 15-25 for bandits.

I agree that the number of reps assigned may vary by the creature age.

Scatter gave fewer reps then other areas that I remember, at least more often if not an outright lower floor. Which I greatly appreciated when it came to liches.

Numbers vary with level difference from the critter. If you ask for easier tasks or help someone lower level, you can get into the 30s (32 I think is the biggest cull I've had).

The opposite applies when helping someone higher level or asking for harder (11 I think is the lowest I've had)


>Not sure about 15 more. The max you should have over another capped character is 10.
>I've never seen the reps range outside 15-25 for bandits.

If you joined after they had started, you might get 15 more than the 10 they had left.

I tend to feel cheated with only 15 bandits, though I'll gladly take culls that small in hunting grounds with multiple critter types in them.

>So sharing a bounty makes the boost end? Sounds a little unexpected to me since inquiring about bounties never ends the boost. It makes me wonder if this was intentional or a flaw. Most reason points to the latter, unless boosts with sharing bounties seemed a bit too powerful to the PTB.

Yes. The boost ends whenever the following occurs first: the task is completed, when the task is shared, or when an hour has passed.

>Sharing bounties on boost seems a bit too abusable. You could in theory have character A on a bounty boost doing nothing but feeding characters B,C, and D a constant stream of "assist" bounties for an hour.

It did occur to me, but this would make no sense as character A would get to turn in no bounties in that time period. It's no different from what you can do without the boost. However, sharing the bounty on boost shouldn't make the boost end until at least one creature has been killed (i.e. the task has been attempted).

No, this started because a character who did not have a culling task, using a boost, got a raw deal when the hunting partner got assigned 32 creatures to kill, making the task onerous and undesirable, thereby cancelling the benefits of being able to use the boost to choose a task to begin with. Of course, said character could abandon hunting partner, but that is rude and undesirable also.

>I think extending the benefit to knowing how many critters will be assigned to anyone and everyone you choose to share the bounty with is a bit of a stretch in what the benefit should be.

Thanks for your input, but I disagree. Regardless, this does nothing but continues to deter group hunting, so be it.

>And if the person you are sharing it with is around 5 trains higher than you

Thanks for the assumption, but they aren't.

>Regardless, this does nothing but continues to deter group hunting, so be it.

Boosts are priceless for group hunting, exactly because they allow compatible tasks to be obtained. If I want a task for a group, I get the right task for the group. Get something that will be enjoyable when shared, not something that will be tedious.

Walking between my locker and the gemshop - 1000 exp, getting the right task for my partner - priceless.