New Notorious Monsters

[Sandmaste]

A large part of FFXI was NM camping, I know some people loved it, some people hated it and im not talking about new HNM's but it would be nice to have some NM's to camp at level 99. There doesn't need to be rediculous resawn conditions, 1-4hours max but farming NM's back in the day was a lot of fun.

Obviously the drop would be R/Ex unless we have gotten to the stage gilsellers have given up I don't know as I've just returned.

I still have my Bounding Boots, Emp hairpin etc, it would be nice to have some level 99-119 NM's in carefully planned out vanilla zones (vanilla being everything pre-SoA) where you can camp on your own or with a friend for a worthwhile drop.

I guess to an extent you still have it with the starting steps of making emp weapons, but its not quite the same.

Oh - it would be a buff to the THF job without doing anything to the job!

[Balloon]

Please god no.

[Rubicant82]

I'm good with leaving the NMs in the past thanks ... >.>
Nothing says annoying & frustrating like camping a monster that wont give you anything anyway that one time you finally out claim the cheaters using claim bots.

[Karbuncle]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...he-Exploration.

[Draylo]

I would like to see NMs roaming around, but give incentive for people to team up and kill them. Maybe they drop more plasm the more you bring or something unique. I know offhand a ton of people would just set up bots to claim them over and over.

[Ophannus]

Rather have hard spawnable NMs that require skill and teamwork for r/ex drops than relying on lottery, luck, and claiming speed.

[Balloon]

Yeah. I don't see the point. By saying you want lottery nms you're just saying the camping part is fun, since the fight would be the same. That's... worrying.

[madmartin]

I always liked the lottery/timed spawn nms, since being back for a month on my new character ive allready got empress hairpin from valkurm emperor and bounding boots from LL, a cool earring set that wont be replaced until end game by these weapon nms in sauramaogue champaigne and rolandberrry fields, i never knew existed, also got the drop from leach king and killed poisonhand gnagdad and mee deggi, it saddens me come 99 the only world nms i can kill our outdated stuff like kirin and behemoth, though soloing kirin on rdm is going to be a cool challenge!

maybe make the nms spawn able all across the zone so you cant camp a specific area, and have to hunt the whole zone or bump in to them randomly!

[Balloon]

Yeah, sandworm was the worst one to camp.

[Rubicant82]

I always liked the lottery/timed spawn nms, since being back for a month on my new character ive allready got empress hairpin from valkurm emperor and bounding boots from LL, a cool earring set that wont be replaced until end game by these weapon nms in sauramaogue champaigne and rolandberrry fields, i never knew existed, also got the drop from leach king and killed poisonhand gnagdad and mee deggi, it saddens me come 99 the only world nms i can kill our outdated stuff like kirin and behemoth, though soloing kirin on rdm is going to be a cool challenge!

maybe make the nms spawn able all across the zone so you cant camp a specific area, and have to hunt the whole zone or bump in to them randomly!

I hope you understand that they recently changed how lottery spawns work esp for those involved in RoE & Magian trials where the NMs spawn much more often.


But as for the whole NM system, Lottery Spawn NMs need to completely go the way of the dinosaur, and no NM should have a respawn of more than 1 hr.
I'm sorry but in 2014 people do not have the patience or the time to sit and wait for hours upon hours upon hours for the NM to spawn, and then have a 1% chance to get the right item. . . 0 desire to go back to those days.
I am personally fond of force spawned NM that have pop items, as long as the pop item has a fair drop rate.