Play poll: No Open world vs Instanced world?

[Sephrick]

Interesting but I sort of see a problem with this. Why do the raids to get the weak gear to then have to do more raids to make them as good as the open world stuff when you can get a bunch of people together and just zerg-fest easy kill the open world and get the best gear? Of course it goes the other way as well... why do the open world stuff if the best of the best gear comes from raids.

Really there is almost no way to make both parties of this happy and in the end more then likely neither side will give way to the other or try to see eye to eye. You could make it to where raids drop the best of the best gear and that open world drops stuff equal to it but must be made by a crafter so the open world people have to kill x NMs to get the drops needed to make the items... Who know as I said you humans will fight each other about such things till the end of time.

I would love for you all to prove me wrong but I am sure you can't can you? oooo a challenge!

The cat is bemused =-.-=

Mainly I was just trying to come up with a way to make instances take as long as open world stuff without too low of a drop rate.

Plus, the caveat is in the open world everyone is making progress whereas in instances fewer people of your group will have items but you'll be "playing the game" on your own schedule.

At the end of the day, Yoshida said the game will focus on instances. And that's why I'm still here. I had my fill of open world claim fests. If that's what I wanted, I'd go find a game with that instead of trying to force it elsewhere. It'd be like going to the Skyrim forums and pOsting "Why no guns, lulz?"

I know my idea wasn't perfect. But it was an attempt at common ground. And both paths have balanced positives and negatives while remaining unique experiences.

Of course the simplest dilution is to make a raid version of each open world dungeon and make two versions of the same reward that are identical accept for their name so that open world people can gloat that they have the "non-instance version."