Petition to keep non-instanced dungeons.

[Jinko]

You aren't thinking very hard. While it can be argued that the burning circles is instanced. They do not encompass the entire dungeon.

Bedeaux
Davoi
Castle ostroja
Mamook
Halvung
The Ship graveyard zone whose name escapes me

All these are beastman areas, with bosses that can be seen and faced outside of an instance forcefully separating the players.
Anyone can enter the trap door leading to Tee Xicu the Manifest, Anyone can cross the zone line and see Qulun Dome, and Za' Dha.

And yes, they do count even though they are years old.

All those places you mention are zones agreed much like Stongholds, they have bosses but I would hardly call them HNM's.

I actually like the way FFXIV has its small instance party content which is seperate from other players whilst still being in the main world. (faction leve NM's for example)

Also things like Final Job quests bosses or ZNM's in FFXI, this allows everyone their own chance with a boss without having to wait for hours for a spawn only to lose it to a botter.

There are clearly compromises that can be made on both sides, that being said Yoshi-p seems to be in favour of mainly instance based content and I'm cool with that also.

Most of XI's dungeons were not "instanced"... ALbeit, there were many, MANY great instances (Namis, Einherjar, BCNM's, etc) but I mean think of all the FFXI "Dungeon" areas... Eldieme, Garlaige, etc etc the open world dungeon zones.. there were plenty of areas non-instanced, and they coexisted beautifully with the ones that were.

There seems to be some confusion as to what a dungeon is here, when I say dungeon I think instanced content, when you say dungeon you mean like a labyrinth zone which you have to crawl through.

All those area's Kallera mentioned above to me are zones and not dungeons.