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.

Resources

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.

Macro Tips

Sharing scout info with your third linkshell with the help of target and current position placeholders:

/l3 SCOUTED <t> <pos>

To relay a Conductor's flag (e.g. during ongoing train), select their flag in-game and then:

/shout Next stop <flag>
/l3 Next stop <flag>

With fun characters, it'd look like this:

Community

Ask around for your local hunting linkshells and scouting communities! A good time is just after a hunt finished.
Some active communities across datacenters:

Aether: https://aetherhunts.net/ , and a Discord link can be found there

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!

Endwalker

Thavnair	Garlemald

Labyrinthos	Mare Lamentorum

Elpis	Ultima Thule

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.