Anybody think there should be something with group hunting to make it more worthwhile?

There is. You get more experience.

Really? There a help file on that?

Nnnno. There prolly should be. It was explained to us by Hajamin ages ago.

EDIT: I don't think it's much though. But it is there.

I think Hajamin told us once that when you kill something in a group of two, you each get 51% of the experience, or something like that.

In other words, it's only really helpful if you have an infinite number of mobs to kill. Remember how Astral was his example for it?

Yeah. Well, Astral doesn't exist for the average player's group hunting any more, meaning that hunting in groups will end up giving you far less than if you just killed everything yourself. Woo hoo. Except in the Catacombs, perhaps, where you can kill a LOT faster with a group smacking down the lifeleechers.

If there are X mobs, and you kill all X by yourself, you get 100%. If you kill all X with a partner, you get 51%, and then there are no more of them until they respawn. I guess we can hope that this new stuff they're working on addresses limited critters during heavy play times. *shrugs*

The way they're addressing this, most likely, is by adding more critters.

Definitely a possibility.

Would be nice if being in a Coven helped hunting to an extent besides the extra exp from that skill. Coning on Astral is suicide.

I see alot of acknowledgements towards what I'm getting at with this topic, but not alot of suggestions. If you got 'em, let's hear 'em. If it's good I'll bump until the sun devours the moon in hopes that we can see a change. Being that yeah, I feel party hunting is lame.

Here's a kicker:
If it's true there's the slight experience bonus for partied hunting, does karma blessing harmony bonuses and/or human bonuses stack to that bonus? As in, if you get an extra +1% per party member, is that suspect to the multiplier for harmony and/or the human race bonus when totaling the exp gained from a critter?

It is, yes.

All experience bonuses stack, IIRC. They're just too insignificant to make a real difference, specially at higher levels.