Scouting

General Information

See also: The Hunt

Scouting is the art of searching and recording A-Rank hunting marks for the purposes of a Hunt Train. A-Ranks have a respawn time of up to six hours, so the player communities of various worlds and datacenters come together to scout out, record, and then run all found marks at once.

Glossary of Terms


A-Rank	the scary monster target.
Scout	a volunteer who goes out in search of a hunting target.
Relay	to take up the initial flag marker and then spread the word via shout, linkshell, etc.
Pull Time	an agreed-upon Eorzean Time(ET) for attacking the target. Abbreviated as PT.
Called	this target is greenlit to be relayed. Everyone interested can gather and kill at Pull Time.
Scouted	this target should NOT be relayed nor killed. The coordinates are for notes towards a future train.

Scouting Routes

The following spawn locations and decent scouting path are courtesy of Belletrist Grimm of Jenova ^[1].
We've used these pictures to great effect in finding and running trains on the Aether datacenter!

Shadowbringers

Amh Araeng	Lakeland

Kholusia	Il Mheg

Rak'tika Greatwood	Tempest

Stormblood

Hunts run in these areas are often referred to as Centurio Trains.
It's preferred to kill these with level 80 jobs, as you'll also obtain a bit of phanta as well as the usual drops.