Please do not make group quest open world areas.

[Felis]

What this means is for late comers, returning players, or alts, they could not complete these zones at all since the main population had moved on to the latest content, leaving them to spam zone chat for hours in hopes they'd get a group to complete these quests.

Party Finders ^^

I doubt that the open world enemies will require a full party or even a light party, but I hope that they are hard enough to bring a single player without Chocobo help to sweat. Around the Alexandrite maps difficulty level.

Ad yes, the "visit all aetherytes" achievement from 1.0 I did solo, regardless of all the lv80 enemies on the way who can have killed a player with a single hit * I look at you, Black Shroud *

[Duelle]

Ad yes, the "visit all aetherytes" achievement from 1.0 I did solo, regardless of all the lv80 enemies on the way who can have killed a player with a single hit * I look at you, Black Shroud *

So did I, and it wasn't a good thing.

Great, now I'm worried. And if the leveling experience turns to shit, I know exactly who to blame it on.

[Maikal]

I think this is great news! Finally, some kind of actual threat in open world areas! I'm glad not every bit of new content is meant strictly for poorly skilled players. Just because casual players exist, shouldn't force developers to exclude the other groups of players.

[Amatsuhira]

This game certainly does lack that sense of danger when traversing the open world. I personally miss that feeling then again i have gotten the platinum on all the souls games, so maybe i'm just a sucker for having to pay attention to my environment. Bring back sound and smell agro for da kiddies.

[Coltvoyance]

When it comes to this change, I'll say what I said in a previous post:

"I love that they made the monsters in areas harder. When monsters on a map aren't a threat, they become an annoyance; and I don't like being annoyed when I play... I like being challenged!"

[Hyrist]

When it comes to this change, I'll say what I said in a previous post:

"I love that they made the monsters in areas harder. When monsters on a map aren't a threat, they become an annoyance; and I don't like being annoyed when I play... I like being challenged!"

If they become an undesired obstruction to the goal, no matter what 'challenge' they are, they're going to be annoying.

If they become such an obstruction that your average player cannot cross it alone, then you've destroyed your game. Early 2000's MMO policies are not intelligent policy in 2015. Hopefully it's just slightly tuned in specific areas. Otherwise, we will lose a chunk of people over this, when we're already going to suffer retention issues due to gating.

[VargasVermillion]

All it means is zones won't be boring anymore and Beast tribe camps make sense, they SHOULD require you to work harder, you're dead smack in the middle of an enemy base. New players won't be too hard off, they'll just get the latest tomb gear in each patch and power creep will nerf the mobs naturally as with most content in the game so far.