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    Would you rather....

    Would you rather have nms as they are now?(NMs now, you have to kill 1000 times(I'm exaggerating) before you get a drop)
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    Would you like to only kill them only 20 times with camping?(The nms here would have longer spawn times of course, not 5mins, ranging an hour-24hours, without windows.)

    Now, I know you all hate grinding and you all hate camping. So what do you hate more? Lets take Ifrit for an example. You can kill Ifrit as many times as you like over and over and over again. You may or may not get a drop by your 50th kill. I see threads all over saying "FIX IFRITS DROP RATES", well they did it like that because you can kill em over and over and over and over again.
    I just wanted to use Ifrit as an example because it's the best example. Just want to make it clear, it's not about ifrit, it's about world NMs.
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    I hate camping for stuff and not even having a chance at claming it. Grinding stuff is fine by me. Ifrit and Moogle are entertaining, at least.
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    Ok, but time spet camping nm would be < killing the nm 1000 times. Also its not about ifrit or moogle its about world nms
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    I haven't killed the NMs for 1000s of times. I'm 6/7 on Ifrit weapons. Camping NMs that drop good stuff could take hours just to wait for it to pop. Then claiming it. No. I hated it in FFXI. I'll hate it here.
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    I rather have content that lasts which you have to progress through to get to. 100% drops, but larger loot pools.
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    I said no windows, it will pop the exact time it says it will pop, you don't have to wait at all just be there when he spawns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rokien View Post
    Ok, but time spent camping nm would be < killing the nm 1000 times.
    But why?
    Where does this come from?
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    Fighting is more fun than camping. Much better like this. XI was horrid in that way. Of course, if they could make such a large amount of content that it would last even w/o camping and low drop rates, that would be great. But that's not really feasable to make for us that been here from the start and done it all patch by patch.
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    Most of camping of nms in FFXI were the windows of an hour-4 hours that it could spawn, if you take that out, all you have to do is go there right befor it pops(if you know the tod) That will also give you an upper hand on claiming the nm
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    The time spent camping the NM for a very close to 100% drop with other groups probably takes just as much time (depending on how many groups are nearby) as grinding out a NM.

    Better yet, why can't we just have a bigger drop rate with HARDER NM's and not babified tank and spank ones? I'm not just talking about ifrit and moogles.
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