Please rework bounties

[winter agate]

My primary issue with bounties is it feels like guild members can sandbag you by holding bounties hostage. I would think bounties should foster good relationships between guild members, not hamper them.

For example: There are two enchantment bounty slots and one stone bounty slot. While someone has one of these bounties, the slot does not refresh in the bounty list. This means that if my routine is to accept and immediately complete stone bounties, I am completely thrown off if someone else accepts a stone bounty and does not complete it immediately. This slot could potentially be held for 24 hours.

A simple solution would be to allow slots to refresh even if a member is currently holding a bounty of that slot.

[lethal venture]

Honestly, I know what you mean. It can be difficult getting a good bounty sometimes, because I like to do certain ones. If others enjoy doing those same ones, too, it means that one of us will often miss out on the ones we want to do.
Though, I feel like it's often not mean-spirited. I feel like there's a reasonable consideration that some bounties just take time. Especially if it's higher level bounties, where these items can take time to prepare. Such as if a person goes to a bounty and thinks, "oh I'll try this one", they might only start crafting things at that point. Being that some bounty items can take an hour or more to do, it obviously will take them at least an hour to complete it. Also, not everyone can be on the game 24 hours a day.
So yes, I feel like it would be nice if the bounty system were reworked to make it so more people could participate, without withholding bounties from other people.

On a similar note, I feel like there are also points where people just can't participate in bounties as much. For a lot of higher level players, sometimes the bounty tasks they're presented are just impossible to complete. I haven't even unlocked T14 questing yet. However, a lot of the time, that's the main questing bounty options it gives me. And the same for crafting; sometimes it will present me bounty crafting tasks which just aren't possible for me at the moment.