Cake Walk World needs to be Spiced Up

Hi!

I believe than most of the player base will agree on this: once you've reach level 50, the open world feel like a walk in the park on a sunny afternoon.

While it is beautiful and contains tons of interesting NPCS, there is nothing to worry about and everything is too easy.

I believe that adding open world puzzles with variable solutions would help make things more interesting. Since most people follow the roads, use the airships or just teleport, there would be no harm to add puzzles or danger elements at key locations.


- For example, players wanting to access the Castrum around the Eorzea should get the front door combination off guard instead of just walking in. The combination would change once in a while, but there would be various ways of obtaining them: killing guards to get numbers, gathering around the Castrum to find lost combination, stalking guards to infiltrate the Castrum, etc.

[In the story, I always find disappointing that I could walk through Castrum Centri before I even gained access to it with the salute and everything...]

- Another example, how about having bounty hunters from Garlemald show up unexpectedly once in a while? You would have the option of fighting them or running away (if you're caught as a DoL or DoH in the wild for example). It would be like a personal FATE.

- There should be open world traps (at fixed locations as not to be annoying, but still a surprise for first timers)! Either ones that inflict damage or ones that immobilize your characters (then you play a mini-game to get out).

- and more!

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We have gathered our allies and together we laid an entire legion to waste.
We have face primals in personal combat and emerged victorious.
We slain millennia old voidsent.
We have rebuilt weapons that were worn by heroes of legends.
We have the knowledge and wisdom lost to time at our fingers.
We slay terror's born of nightmare on daily basis. For books and boxes of scraps!
We. Are. Gods. Amongst. Men


How is some press-ganged Garlemaldean grunt going to be threat to us?

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Originally Posted by Deusteele

We have gathered our allies and together we laid an entire legion to waste.
We have face primals in personal combat and emerged victorious.
We slain millennia old voidsent.
We have rebuilt weapons that were worn by heroes of legends.
We have the knowledge and wisdom lost to time at our fingers.
We slay terror's born of nightmare on daily basis. For books and boxes of scraps!
We. Are. Gods. Amongst. Men


How is some press-ganged Garlemaldean grunt going to be threat to us?

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Because you didn't accomplish all that with your strength alone?

Exactly because we are powerful could others feel the need to defeat us.
That's what we're doing to them, why couldn't they do the same to us?

Even the story, especially in 2.3, acknowledges that you're just OP compared to basically everything.

But I have always found it funny that the Castum just lets you in the front door to their base so you can kill their dudes.

Enough of these open world threads.
You requested open world content, and now people are raging and blacklisting and cursing at each other in the hunt.

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Originally Posted by Nukocafe

Enough of these open world threads.
You requested open world content, and now people are raging and blacklisting and cursing at each other in the hunt.

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Wut? Poorly executed content doesn't mean open world content is bad. I guess we should also stop with instanced content cause in 2.2 it was just doing Brayflox over and over yeah?

I agree with the OP. Even WoW (or at least when I played vanilla), had elites and higher level mobs roaming the level 60 areas. Silithus required high level armor or a party to explore it's hives. Blasted Lands, EPL, and Deadwind Pass, and other high levels areas had tough mobs that could gang up on you and spell death. I afked in the Sylphlands waiting for a fate and came back to a "high level" mob desperately trying to kill me, barely doing damage.

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Originally Posted by Nukocafe

Enough of these open world threads.
You requested open world content, and now people are raging and blacklisting and cursing at each other in the hunt.

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Except it was poorly done - Not how people suggested. Even if you try to reference FFXI, major difference is, more than half of XI's life they used a force pop system or a pop heirachy system, e.g Voidwatch/ZNM/Abyssea/Walk of Echos (you pop the instance) and so on.

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Originally Posted by Magis

I agree with the OP. Even WoW (or at least when I played vanilla), had elites and higher level mobs roaming the level 60 areas. Silithus required high level armor or a party to explore it's hives. Blasted Lands, EPL, and Deadwind Pass, and other high levels areas had tough mobs that could gang up on you and spell death. I afked in the Sylphlands waiting for a fate and came back to a "high level" mob desperately trying to kill me, barely doing damage.

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Everyone hates stuff like that which is why everyone hated the sylph quests. (At least everyone I know hated them) No one wants to be attacked and KO'ed by random guys while they're trying to do their daily quests. I don't understand why people want random crap to kill them while they walk around the map. If you like dying so badly go spend hours wiping the floor in savage coil ಠ_ಠ

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Originally Posted by Yukiko

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Where is this from?

I think I want to read more.

Because that rage is true..