Why 4.0 should have a zone with danger, no ports, no mounts, and a hidden town

[Khalithar]

lol What is a monster going to fall out of the sky?

FFXI had that actually. A zone where a monster that was way too strong to solo (at the time, dunno how it is nowadays) was lurking up in the sky and if you got too close beneath it or it patrolled over you while you were afk, it would drop down and destroy you.

Edit: Poster below me showed the picture of it.

Double edit: The zone also had a monster that lurked below you and if you ran over it, it would pop up and attack you. They weren't as strong as the enemies in the sky though. It definitely forced you to pay attention as the only enemies in the area that would actively attack you in the zone were either above you in the sky or below you underneath the ground, you had to constantly pan your camera up and down rather than around you.

[Nalien]

lol What is a monster going to fall out of the sky?

Sure.



Damn... Actually, can we get some stuff like this in XIV? Yovra were kind of obvious and in your face about it, but there were a few others that were harder to spot and kind of added the whole random encounter feel to the game... Heck, something like Yovra could work quite interestingly with flying mounts...

[Velthice]

Sure.



Damn... Actually, can we get some stuff like this in XIV? Yovra were kind of obvious and in your face about it, but there were a few others that were harder to spot and kind of added the whole random encounter feel to the game... Heck, something like Yovra could work quite interestingly with flying mounts...

Huh... I learned something today. Dunno about a whole zone but something like this would definitely be pretty cool. Like fel reavers, only they're death jellyfish.

[Nalien]

Dunno about a whole zone but something like this would definitely be pretty cool.

I'm thinking something similar could work fairly well with beast tribe strongholds, to actually make them somewhat more dangerous feeling... I mean, they are strongholds... Go in on foot, and they can occasionally drop down on you if you're not paying attention. Go in on a flying mount, and you'd aggro a bunch of them the same way you'd aggro regular mobs if you just ran through... Slap some flying Sanuwa around Vanu Vanu strongholds in Sea of Clouds or something, rather than landlocking them, or something...

Stuff coming out from the ground works too, similar to the Phuabo in XI... Come to think of it, in 1.0 the mole enemies here use to dig underground and surprise you... How is that no longer a thing? Well, harder to incorporate flying mounts with enemies popping out of the ground, but there are certainly a few enemies it could lend itself well to... Mandragoras could be particularly fun... Heck, Sahagin Landbase has a few little pools dotted around the place, I always figured it would be kinda cool to have enemies jump out of them if you get too close...

[Lone-wolfe-02]

What you ask for simply wouldn't happen these days, it sounds great but people who would enjoy this are the minority and it's unlikely they would create such a zone for a minority.

[RyuRoots]

FFXIV is not FFXI

Focusing on this could've saved you a lot of effort typing all that up. It's not going to happen and I think everyone knows it.

[Nalien]

What you ask for simply wouldn't happen these days, it sounds great but people who would enjoy this are the minority and it's unlikely they would create such a zone for a minority.

And yet we have Lord of Verminion...

[Evangela]

People complained about the Hinterland for lacking a save point and SE had to solve the problem.

Why do you think it's a good idea to have a zone that cannot teleport to?

[Zojha]

And yet we have Lord of Verminion...

Which likely was meant to cater to a broad audience, considering the fact that pet battles, in general, are quite popular. Pokémon thrives off collecting, training, breeding and battling pets. The implementation however...didn't exactly work out so well.

But you can scratch LoV in put "Savage" instead and your point is still valid.

[LadyVal]

And yet we have Lord of Verminion...

To be fair, Verminion is kind of just a poorly implemented piece of content that was based off of many player's desires to see their minions do more than just be cute. A lot of people I know wanted more, and I can recall seeing a loooot of forum posts and topics about how minions needed some content to participate in, they just... made it super unappealing. So it was aimed at a large group of desires, but, just, well...