Highly Notorious Monsters

[ThePatriarch]

If people want to camp HNMs for thrill, cool. If people want to camp HNMs just to think they're better than the other players, then nothx. It should stay out of XIV. That isn't the environment it's built so far. Work = reward in XIV.

Work = Doing 72 runs of Moogle/Ifrit hoping that the drops might magically come to you, instead of someone who doesn't need it?

Regardless of how much you dislike HNM's, I think it would be foolish to ignore the greater majority of people in this thread that do.

We are trying to stay on a mature basis, and discuss the topic. Rather than stray into immature statements like "go fondle your epeen" and "might just be another e-peener". Statements like this hurt any credibility you might have had.

We don't want HNM's for an ego boost. We want them because of the thrill, excitement, and the literally overwhelming sense of accomplishment that comes with them. And yes, it is nice to wear those "elite" items.

[Exni]

Work = Doing 72 runs of Moogle/Ifrit hoping that the drops might magically come to you, instead of someone who doesn't need it?

Bah, you beat me to it..

Yeah, Pep's WHOLE argument on Work = Reward in FFXIV is completly wrong. Not just dungeon runs, but OMG can you say PL.. How about those people who sat around doing nothing but got max 50's in a week or two vs those that leve'd or partied with similar level peeps? What about those who turbo spam (or bot...) crafting vs those who actually used leve's and/or tried for higher exp synths? What about in DH where in order to get the highest "reward", you literrally try to do the least amount of work and skip through it all? What about being able to get insta-ported to anywhere in the world w/o ever having to have traveled anywhere before?.. Yeah.. you may want to rethink that one..