Game Mechanics drastically shorten (or remove) the hunted cooldown timer

hey chat
the 60 second hunted cooldown timer was a suggestion made by yy seemingly on a whim. the reasoning being that people (specifically hich people i think?) would have a more fair chance of living after logging in so they couldn't be immediately attacked. salted thought the idea was ok, and it got added.

now, it's been over a year since then, I think. somewhere around a year. during that time, i have seen this hunted timer get used for its intended purpose maybe TWICE. fifteen hundred hours of hunted mode, and it has been used for its intended purpose twice that i've seen. in most of these cases, it won't hinder the person that died to this either (unless it is a HICH player who was getting spawncamped, but if you log out somewhere where someone else knows you logged out.... perhaps you logged on them in the first place?)

anyways, regardless of that. let's discuss the bad parts of this timer. wynncraft pvp is somewhat broken but as a result of being so broken, the pvp itself is INCREDIBLY fast paced. most times when you get hit, there's a 20% chance of death. of course, this results in crackheads spamming spells and whatnot frantically trying to not get hit first.

the cooldown timer being A MINUTE LONG absolutely ruins the flow of this pvp, and i'm not even talking about people abusing the timer. it sucks to have to sit by each other for a full minute while not being able to hit each other, and throws off the pvp as a result. there's so many times people have tried to hit me or me them, but surprise! can't fight.

it's just so unneeded and unnecessarily long. even FIFTEEN seconds is too long for something like this imo, but it's a much better number than what we currently have.

now, let's talk about people abusing the timer. as opposed to the two times i have seen it actually used for what it was meant to be, there are probably literal hundreds of times i have seen people have abuse this cooldown to get free invincibility so they don't die. some people are more shameless than others, but even if you do it on accident... what now? you aren't going to stick around. the timer also has caused numerous headaches for the mod team for absolutely no reason other than people who won't stop abusing the invincibility to get the rewards of the mode.

overall, i think the timer should be heavily shortened to something that actually makes sense for its initial purpose (10-15 seconds is more than enough time to use a movement spell and/or scroll away), or remove it entirely.

say what you want about pvp and hunted mode in general, that's another thread, but i feel like the timer was a failed experiment that's lasted far too long.

 

I don’t see why not to remove it

 

bump wahoo

 

ok but what if i want to repeatedly do /class on hunted so i am never threatened by hunted players and can avoid the entire point of the game mode what then linny flower

 

wabumpus ,