Dangerous Areas

[Skivvy]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how a dangerous overworld is supposed to be fun, especially when coupled with the idea of some arbitrary punishment for death/failure (because reasons, I guess). Nothing I've ever experienced and nothing I've seen mentioned in this thread (or any thread of the same subject) has ever amounted to being anything more than a tedious speedbump or it can be easily trivialized in some way.

The only time a world is legitimately dangerous is when you're an ignorant newbie to the game's world (and probably to gaming in general). Once you've learned the basics of gaming and the basic rules of the game's world ("Haphazardly wandering too close to some mobs might make them attack me") and you stop shambling around like blind man in beer goggles, the idea of a dangerous world evaporates. Now instead of having a "dangerous" world, you just have something built to pad playtime and to arbitrarily punish carelessness or bad luck.

To take this to the extreme, why bother having anything aggro then in the open world in that case? As it is now, the most that generally happens is that you will have heavy cast on you as you run through a pack of mobs. Gatherers just need to cast stealth, and they're all good to go. Why bother with such a weak threat in the first place?

A tame overworld is just dull. However, with XIV, it's just part of a larger problem. There is very little reason to go out into the open world. If they actually added non-instanced dungeons, or some other content that kept it relevant, I could see it being worthwhile to make the open world tricky. I don't see XIV moving away from instanced dungeons, and everything being done through DF / PF, or quick easy ports. So for now, the overworld will just remain a fancy waiting room.