Why did SE get rid of the random chests as drops from open world mobs ?

I am curious as to why SE decided to drop the whole random loot off mobs in the open world, especially as FFXI has a random drop from mobs AND 2 types of chests that can also drop, hell the whole loot the chest mechanic and UI is already in the game as is the chest assets... so why ditch the whole loot from mobs ?

I am not saying bring back the whole work out the combination key to unlock mini game, or even locked chests but having random chests drop off mobs while you are fighting in the the open world would spice up the open world a bit as you level... you could possibly pick up new gear, or stuff to sell on the market, or potions or food.

Does anyone really hate the idea of looting in the open world, checking the corpses or open the chests the mobs drop in MMO's ?

FFXIV never had random chest drops like that to get rid of. As for XI, you realize that feature was added years later, right? Like, after several expansions type of later.


Between treasure hunting, random chests during leves, those in dungeons and quest rewards do we really need something else to create a glut of armor and crafting materials?

Well the Treasure Hunts , Leve chests and Dungeon chests are not really that random (the Leve chests may be, but I have never gotten a single useful item from one) ... and are triggered effects rather than something that happened while you were fighting mobs.

It would spice up the open world because at the moment there is no reason to go after mobs except for a specific reason such as logs or quests, or craft items... it is literally more trouble than worth to kill off random mobs than to climb on a mount and ride off to the next location on the map.

And there would be no reason to go after mobs if they added open world chests, either. People would just run up, open them and then run away, leashing the mobs.

Kill a bee and finally get my Allagan Shield and Helm. Yes please >.>

Leve chests

Are you confusing it with the Leve quests fight that drops pink item chests?

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Originally Posted by ASnogarD

I am curious as to why SE decided to drop the whole random loot off mobs in the open world, especially as FFXI has a random drop from mobs AND 2 types of chests that can also drop, hell the whole loot the chest mechanic and UI is already in the game as is the chest assets... so why ditch the whole loot from mobs ?

I am not saying bring back the whole work out the combination key to unlock mini game, or even locked chests but having random chests drop off mobs while you are fighting in the the open world would spice up the open world a bit as you level... you could possibly pick up new gear, or stuff to sell on the market, or potions or food.

Does anyone really hate the idea of looting in the open world, checking the corpses or open the chests the mobs drop in MMO's ?

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Uhh they're probably waiting to add it in the future.

In 1.0 mobs did randomly and occasionally drop chests, I remember it. It may have to do with the fact that battles in 1.0 were a bit tougher.

they want you in instanced dungeons, anything else is "too elite" for the playerbase SE is targeting for XIV:ARR

Don't really see the point as open world mobs are pointless to level on unless you're doing your hunting log. What do you want, potions that heal you for 50 hp? That's all I ever got out of the crappy chests in FFXI. It was always temporary items.

That never happened in FF XIV. There are coffers that occasionally drop during leve quests as was the case in version 1.0.

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Originally Posted by am0n

And there would be no reason to go after mobs if they added open world chests, either. People would just run up, open them and then run away, leashing the mobs.

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He's asking for monsters to drop treasure chests, not for them to be just lying around in random places.

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Originally Posted by Kantide

In 1.0 mobs did randomly and occasionally drop chests, I remember it. It may have to do with the fact that battles in 1.0 were a bit tougher.

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Playing 1.0 since release, never happened once. Chests were only in dungeons and during leves really. Then also for Hamlet defense.

I'd like to see chests in strongholds of various sorts in the game. ^^

There seems to be some confusion as to what I am talking about with this topic...

In most of the MMO's I have played when you kill a basic enemy (mob) in the open world while questing and leveling, the mob may drop a container you can loot or have some indication that you can search the corpse for loot or the loot itself will appear around the corpse to be picked up.
I always enjoyed this feature as it creates a potential in each kill you make to drop something you can use, once in WoW I was grinding undead for Dawn rep tokens and a epic mage staff dropped... extremely rare drop, almost worth more on the market than it was to actually equip it.
You can imagine how much I enjoyed that experience... and its rather disappointing FFXIV doesn't have that potential at all.

With exp being somewhat minimal for killing mobs, and lack of loot potential its far easier to simply by pass the majority of enemies and just focus on the objective targets be that quest or log targets, which makes the open world a waste and a pity because it is a rather nice environment to wander through.

It probably relates to the fact that all present content has to be considered before they add new content. Just like the difference in EXP for free roaming mobs compared to EXP in other content, if it has the potential to leech players from the content that requires group play or parties, they likely won't want to add it because there would be a deficit of participation in that group only content, making it harder for others to complete it.

I like the idea and thumbs up to OP, I just don't see it happening though, unfortunately :( .