[dev1012] Revamped Monster Placement - SE has officially lost their minds

[wildsprite]

its official, SE has lost their minds, I was heading through Inner Horutoto Ruins and came across mobs that agro a level 90, it wouldn't bother me but these mobs were very close to the beginning of the zone, I was expecting new mobs to be in there but closer to the zone to Toraimarai Canal, not that close to the zone to East Sarutabaruta, cmon SE what were you thinking, low level players go through that area for missions, are you out of your minds?

[Chiibi]

there are still low level players?

[Starcade]

there are still low level players?

I think that's the take-home point here.

When the game stagnated in 2009, it was clear that Square-Enix' modus operandi was to try to get new players in to FFXI to probably recruit them for FFXIV.

This all changed in 2010 with the level cap increase and Abyssea. Now, you are hard-pressed to find a real "new player" anywhere.

[Volkai]

there are still low level players?

Yes.


By the way, high level monsters aren't such an issue, because the zones with new monster placement have Grounds of Valor tomes, which means you can spend 5 (or was it ten?) tabs to get sneak+invisible so that you can get past them.

[Alpheus]

Yes.
By the way, high level monsters aren't such an issue, because the zones with new monster placement have Grounds of Valor tomes, which means you can spend 5 (or was it ten?) tabs to get sneak+invisible so that you can get past them.

Not in Ranguemont pass. Gotta drop stealth to go beyond the door to where the high lvl mobs are and there's no book till you hit Glacier zone-line. Otherwise yes I'd agree GoV does tend to take care of stealthing issues via tabs. Shame it had to have problems in a critical zone like Ranguemont.

[Linh]

Didn't they change that in the May 13th patch? I ran down into the beetles and bats at Garlaige Citadel's basement and they didn't aggro me even when I rested.

[Zyeriis]

No, theres IT+ (to a 90) ghosts in Fei'Yin that aggro, guess where they put them? Right on top of the WHM AF (Body) NM pop point. And no, they were like that AFTER the maintenance.

[Akujima]

I love the title of this thread.

And yea, the new monster placement feels really weird... Crawlers Nest is way too strange now.

[Raxiaz]

I myself was worried that something like this was going to happen when I heard the announcement. I can only hope that SE gains some sense and adjusts their placement/behavior so that they aren't a nuisance to passerby and quest/mission completer alike.

[RushLynx]

I don't understand why they can't leave low level areas as low level areas... there are plenty of other places they could have put these mobs outside of Abyssea... places low level characters won't even see 'till they're at least 60+, not lvl 10... -.-