Highly Notorious Monsters

[Rydin]

Both. I see no reason why they couldn't do both, since other games have inevitably wound up that way.



I would think a variety would be best. Probably even more so if the reward was equivalent to the length of time it took to appear. There was a reason LoO had such rigorous pop conditions.



The more the merrier, I'm inclined to say base it on spawn conditions. But you should also base it on how difficult you made it comparative to other game content. If it takes an hour to whittle an open world NM down and 10 minutes to kill an instance boos, I think the rewards should reflect that. If the difficulty of defeating the two are equivalent, so should the quality of the reward.



Again this is something that should vary. In context of the thread, I'm going to assume open world. Some could spawn in a pretty confined area, while others would have random spawn points. Same for the amount of roaming they do. It would make sense for a Wyrm to take flight and roam all over, a goblin king on the other hand may be more inclined to chill in his throne room.




Only if they add a call for help function, in which case you can receive outside help but loose the reward. I don't think that should be NM specific though, so there's that.

For the record, I was never an NM camper. I would lend a hand here or there if, for example, I was farming near SSG when Charybdis popped. But that was about the extent of my NM action.

Good points... Most people seem to feel this way... I don't know what all the arguing and disagreement is about
Its like congress... we all agree on core concepts and then we get all angry and up in arms over the details

[Strange]

yeah its health care for NM's

[Levian]

Good points... Most people seem to feel this way... I don't know what all the arguing and disagreement is about
Its like congress... we all agree on core concepts and then we get all angry and up in arms over the details

Seems to me that a lot of people assume that if they throw in HNMs they'll be the only source of decent gear, or otherwise be the only source of endgame content. I'm not sure why though, clearly we're going to have the instanced content regardless of all else. Unlike other suggestions that have been made around these forums, HNM type content literally only had an impact on people in HNM shells. The rest of us did sky, sea, dynamis, and later einherjar, besieged, nyzul etc. all while the HNM crowd did their own thing.

Did that make some gear unobtainable? Yes. Did we complain about it? Well, I didn't but I'm sure someone did. As for me, I chose not to do the content and lived with being locked out of certain gear options because of my choice.