More meaningful open world content please!

Maybe with all this duty finder fail they will decide to make more open world stuff and not have almost everything be instanced. No this isn't an I hate duty finder & instance thread, just wish it was more balanced. You know like being able to walk into some mines and not need an entire party for it. I know this has been said before,but so has many of these oh no I cant get into the game threads.

I have to agree more open world content would be useful in cases like this.

Only open-world "meaningful" content that'll make it into the game is roaming primals (Still have instanced versions) , people demanded instanced fights because of them losing claims to alleged "bots"

Why not work on the Grand Company WvWvW thing they plan on doing while fixing all these errors. So when this happens, any other error, or you did all the content already. People can just hop in GCvGvCGC.

dutyfinder is your god now.
we wont get any open world stuff. stronghold are a joke now not sure if they will be adding nm bosses again or even more mobs in them. people dont want NM's, people dont want to walk in the open world.

More Fates, or a greater frequency of fates.

(post 3/3)

FATEs are currently lackluster due to...

1) Poor level sync scaling (it should be lower, less than 2 level differences)
2) Poor scaling based on the number of participants
3) Uninteresting enemy tactics, even after the first 20 levels (unlike those found in guildhests and such)
4) Gold medals being too easy to obtain
5) No mechanics to counter players stacking AoE spam.

A group of people spamming their favorite AoE into a mass of enemies that will be dead in the next 2 seconds is not meaningful, to be sure. The developers should not be so quick to patronize players, they are smarter than you think.

Open world content is the best, I enjoy it much more, unless it gets super zerged like fates do most of the time. I hope they add an equal amount of open world and instanced content so there's tons of things to do to satisfy everyone, only doing one or the other gets boring quick.

Fates are one of my least favorite forms of open world content, up there with 24 hour repop NM's, only when they're zerged. Otherwise they're tons of fun I would enjoy fates more if there were reasons to not 100vs1 each mob as soon as they pop or they were somehow difficult or something. Fates are awesome until a zerg arrives. I would enjoy some type of boss you can pop in the open wo rld and only your party can fight them, and you need to kill mobs in the open world to get drops to pop the boss or something.

FATE is actually destroying the challenge in open world along with the removal of claim mob system that was in place in 1.0.
One might say, "Well.. we don't want to play XI all over again." My response to that would be: It has nothing to do with XI.

What is FATE to me?
Cheap experience points earned superfast for little effort.
Non strategic fights.
Chaos/Unorganized.
Pink icons + enough people= AOE party for 30 seconds to 1min= Gold medal and a whole lot of exp.

The old NM system would be a million times better than these utterly boring events.

Behemoth is not instanced

FATE enemies should take less AoE damage after being hit by AoEs in quick succession, with the rate of being hit making the resistance stronger. Several times a second = complete resistance.

This is shit... I try not to bring up ffxi much but I have to say the 6 years I played that game is because of the open world but NO the casual fruit cakes that think this game was made for them got another thing they wanted. Im not saying im super hardcore but you gotta be kiddin me on this damn all instanced crap. I feel like im playing a game made for a 5th grader tbh. Not having NM's is a bad idea but cry babies that don't like a little competition are a real bad idea, buck up pansies don't slit your wrist if you lose a claim. FATE is not what I was expecting AT ALL. One thing I seen a group do was party up and use the fate for an exp party, not a bad idea but if thats their idea of moving away from exp pt's they didn't do very good lol. Open this world up SE we don't want whats popular in other games. Now if this was a quick way to make money so you can make a better game I say job well done.

I agree with OP, but not because it would help if something crashes, but merely because more variation is better. As it is now there is no point whatsoever to explore because you will get nothing for it. You can teleport everywhere meaning they could have more or less just made it a hub based game. FATEs are the complete failure a lot of us expected when it comes to skill/tactics needed since atm they are just zergfests, now this doesn't mean I want them to go away I am fine with having them but there needs to be something else out there too because atm the world is a complete waste and it is sad to see because it is so well made (albeit small).

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I agree, i miss the competition really don't feel like there is any sort of competition in this game(yet hopefully). Seems they tried to get rid of any sorts of conflict between players. Competitions between players builds into the immersion and gives people even more reasons to do things and it doesn't always cause people to hate each other. Also, please don't try to toss pvp as enough competition. We all know everyone is gonna be wearing the same stuff, with the same stats cause all gear is the same scaled up versions of each other. Game isn't launched yet so still holding out hope even if it is looking grim