#Make catching rats & chompies give hunter xp

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deep forge
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What:
Make catching rats & chompies give hunter XP and/or require hunter levels to catch. The easiest change would be to give "token" XP, eg 5xp a rat or chompy, so they would never be efficient training methods but would be associated with hunter.

The more controversial approach would be to also add requirements to those activities & make them semi-relevant training methods for their level.
Also give quests like Big Chompy Bird Hunting, Ratcatchers, & the Evil Dave / Freeing Skrach RFD subquests hunter XP rewards that could be reclaimed by players who have already completed those.

Why:
Hunter was added in 2006, after Big Chompy Bird Hunting (2004) & of course cats (Gertrude's Cat 2003->Ratcatchers 2005). If these had been added in the opposite order, I'd wager catching rats & chompies would both have been hunter activities. "Hunting" is even in the name of Big Chompy Bird Hunting.

With the retroactive adding of big XP drops to grandmaster quests, maybe now is a good time to add retroactive XP for Hunter.

Make hunter feel like a more complete skill that's well integrated into the game

pseudo leaf
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I mean... ill say at least chompy hunting should give some. You do lure bait and kill at least.

Not sure i can say anything on ratcatchers since its not you actually catching them. But i agree 100% for chompy birds.

charred canopy
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Who has the 99 hunter cat

hidden abyss
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I can understand the cat idea. It is pretty similar to falconry which is a hunter training method.

next creek
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Inb4 this change comes with a quest where you learn to fire your cat out of the dye bazooka to catch rats faster

rocky harbor
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The whole Chompy questline should give hunter xp too

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It's been polled before

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And frankly, it's absurd that the community was so offended by the thought of so much as touching anything from pre 2007 that they refused to have the most Hunter-like quest in the whole game not give hunter XP out of sheer nostalgia. 🤷‍♂️

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It would pass if it was repolled today. We just passed a poll to increase XP rewards for old master and grandmaster quests. 🤔

deep forge
deep forge
rocky harbor
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Unless I'm misremembering. 🤷‍♂️