DI and SW were about as fair game as it should get. No one has the right to complain about them. Sure, people could cheat using a scan, but a lot of people use that program, not just for scanning. You couldn't bot di/sw and they were for the most part, claimed by the group that had the most focused group of people. That alone made it the most fair game HNM.
A group of dedicated scanners would almost always beat a group of the same size OR more that simply deathspot scanned. Why? Because you could not bot claim it. A group of very focused individuals has a much greater advantage over a group relying on programs, if claiming is not an issue. Finding it was and that is how rare HNM should be.
Dspot scanning will only tell you WHEN it pops, but because the area and range of pops was so massive, it made no difference, but in fact, crippled a deathspot svanner UNLESS he subbed or mained rng or bst.
A non deathspot scanner will trump that person most likely, because they already hav widescan. They might not know the very second it pops, but that offers no real advantage if you dont sub widescan. Most jobs cant sub rng or bst and claim those mobs and survive before tank zones in.
Don't talk about di/sw like you know. It was nothing like kings. Those mobs were about as fair as they come. Only cheating thing was ppl deathscanning and it didnt help them much against competition, so stop using that as an excuse. If you wanna throw down the too long of a repop and not having the resources, fine. But ixion and sandworm were not dominated because of cheating. They were dominated because groups were organized and worked hard to claim them, it did require skill against tough comp.
adding more mobs like di/sw is perfect. khim,cerb popped like kings but theyre drops were not amazing, so most ppl outside hnm shells couldnt have cared that much i think. I welcome new mobs that pop like kings/khim etc as long as they dont give their loot something ppl need to have to be the best. A trophy like hauteclaire or algol or gil is appropriate.
People make the mistake of not making their complaint clear. You don't really care about HNMs. You care about having to do them for drops you need or really want. Asking the devs to not add new world rare hnm/nm is unreasonable, instead u guys should be encouraging them to offer a different variety of ways of obtaining the loot (kings - einherjar or etc) or not making their loot r/e or nessicary. A lot of people genuinally enjoy rare NM and i was one of them.
I just dont enjoy how give them the best loot and then i feel forced to do it.
Lets use ixion cloak for example. When that came out, everyone was like "wow nice!". I wasn't in an hnmls at the time and i didnt have time to play much. I was in a einherjar and salvage ls tho and ixion cloak was AHable. Now i still wanted it, but i really didnt care. I wasn't sad or upset because I was in line for morrigans or dalmatica, which can use a headpiece. I wanted ixion cloak just cause it was pretty.
My point is, some of you need to really look at what you want and dont want and stop being afraid of being left out, when you resally wont be. The king generation is over. They wont go back to that, but bitching about HNM in general is kind of unwarranted because only kings and tiamat were really an issue as ive said.
Nynja, did u really care about ixion/sw gear outside the other much more available gears that were just as good or better situationally? Ancient torque is better than Pcharm but not by much and it wasmuch morwe rare and a hassle. It was a trophy piece for people who put forth the effort. Only a small upgrade from a increddibly common item you could have easily gotten. All it showed was that they got a tiny bit better upgrade for much more work. Why did they care? Some people love that type of content. Going that extreme extra mile even for small upgrade. If they dont offer it, it defeats the whole princible.
I'm not saying you should love hardcore content like that, but comparing the later HNMs to the dawn age HNMs is silly. Because not only were the drops only situationally better, they either werent better or better by a small bit. They were only toys for the "elite". The gap between king/tiamat gear and what was available was so much massive than the gap between khim,cerb,di,sw gear and what was more available.
Notice how no one camped Vrtra or Jorm? Why didn't anyone complain about those NMs? Seriously. Because their drops weren't needed or wanted very much. But why? Vrtra dropped mats for the best brd body in game.. and Jorm dropped "Kraken" pole. So why are they always up? I'm only making the point that it's NOT RARE HNM that is the issue, its the drops.
People can argue "well the old mobs are still there, just do those!", That's true but the game has grown and people want new mobs just as much as new gear. Ix/sw/tia gear is still worth a lot and u can three man them. Why don't we do that? That content is old and I don;t think it's unreasonable to ask for new ones, Nobody is asking for NEW KINGS. Who wants that? Nobody really wants to go back to the bot generation, not even the hardcore people. We've all grown, but the rare spawn mobs have always been a great source of fun in game and since the game is moving up, they should compensate for the lost of interest in the later and older NMs. Not just the standard HNM either.
Cassie,serket,sim,roc,bune,overlord,cactrot,arthro etc etc, were all a lot of fun once SE started booting rmt, why not find replacements for these? All Im saying is, this isnt just about those standrd hnm. rare spawn nm should play a part in the new endgame as its part of what made the game fun and interesting for some people. It doesn't have to all be like it was in the stone age, though.
EDIT: my definition of elite is not a better player, but more so one who will always go that extra mile, minus cheating, to have the nicest item or gear.