Confused about people's obsession with open world raids/dungeons.

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i like open world content too, but i will agree with op in that i would like to see strongholds go instanced. it's more a preference for when they add the auto groups and stuff. it seems like the only true way to farm gear in them since normally takes forever to get a group going, on top that most just want the win or move threw all the bosses for wins. the way they are now we will need a dkp for them in the future and do linkshell runs threw the week for them too, that is if the gear becomes worthy of farming like that, witch i can only assume that in the future gear will become worth having from the new ones.

but i'd say a nice balance of both open world an instanced would be nice. they can make the open world just as good as instanced. like sky and sea with instanced main boss fights. also maybe an idea off dcu where they have tons of little instances threw the world for quests/bosses that you enter after a few quests. for ffxiv version a full open world like say sky with tons of zones that get instanced to get threw to parts of the zone. use them for entrances/exits to more farming/bosses in different zones. that way it's just not the last fights that are locked from others but say like half of it.