How come we can't play with friends?

[Gilthas]

Because they feel like they HAVE to do it. I don't understand that logic. If something isn't fun why do it? If hunting and waking up at 3 am to kill some elite boss isn't fun then don't do it. ._. they don't understand that.

Because if said NMs have the best gear in the game (like they did FFXI) then you do HAVE to do it to progress with your character.

IMO the point of world bosses is to compete with other people

If you want true competition, then go do PVP. Claim wars are just stupid.

The difference is open world has RANDOMNESS.

The lack of randomness in dungeon mobs is due to the scripting of said mobs. If open world mobs are scripted too (and they are) then there's no randomness there either. Mobs always respawn in the same places.