Scouting

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

Term	Definition
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.

Most datacenters maintain a Discord server for coordinating and announcing what the players call "Hunt trains" as well as relaying S-rank sightings. During a train, players will party up (usually via Party Finder) and teleport from zone to zone killing all of the A-rank marks in a given expansion in rapid succession. This will earn 120/240 of the current Allagan Tomestones, 360 Poetics, and 480 of that expansion's hunt currency... if all twelve marks are available.

However, if the marks have been "poached" or "sniped", meaning killed by rogue players, then the overall train earns fewer rewards, and the poachers themselves also fail to benefit at all from the train. Poaching also sets off a chain reaction by de-syncing that mark's respawn timer from the others, meaning it will likely idle out and despawn before the other marks have come back up, potentially requiring days to a week before coming back into sync for the trains.

Discord Links

Faloop

Centurio Hunts (FFXIV)

North America

Europe

Chaos: https://discord.gg/faloop
Light: https://discord.gg/Pqz6C5g3SK

Japan

Elemental:
Gaia: https://discord.gg/mcSxAyNrdx
Mana:
Meteor:

Oceania

Materia:

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 90 jobs, as you'll also obtain a bit of endgame material currency as well as the usual drops.