Quote Originally Posted by ColorOfSakura View Post
Yoshi-P has been on record multiple times that the overworld areas in Heavensward will not be safe everywhere you go. That certain places will have "definitely high level monsters that may take multiple people to defeat."

He said that the danger won't be on par with FFXI but that they do want to introduce some of that danger now that players are familiar with the game and they have an established userbase.
The problem here is his current track record of "dangerous" in the open world has been hunts, which I would imagine very very rarely ever impede anyone from doing anything as within a few minutes of spawning they're swarmed by an army of over-geared adventurers, and treasure maps, which are controlled.