Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

This is you saying that HNM's had no popularity.

No, this is me saying that they were not a reason for purchase, a selling point of the game. But yes, for all intents and purposes, their popularity is and was limited. Not everybody got to do this. Hell, the majority of players in any MMO don't even reach the maximum level, much less get to do endgame content. You don't seem to understand this fact. For World of Warcraft, for instance, something like 75% of characters don't even reach level 10. HNMs weren't even popular among all high level players, many preferring to do quests, dynamis, assaults, etc or regular NMs. VERY FEW people actually got to do participate in HNMs on a regular basis.

This is you nullifying your prior statement.

No, that doesn't nullify my statement. "Advanced players" is not everyone or a majority of people. It's a small number of people- like the top 1-5% of players.

The fact that you would say that no one had any interest in HNM/NM's, is simply ignorant.

There is a MASSIVE difference between "no one" and a small number of people. You are the ignorant one, as you can't even read my post correctly.

What people are asking for in this thread is WORLD SPAWN HNMs. I'm tottally cool and fine with instanced fights and force pops. I'm NOT fine with multi-day repops, spawn windows, or any kind of HNM where different linkshells/guilds/groups of people must compete for claim.

In FFXI, "HNM" usually refers to monsters like the following: Fafnir/Nidhogg, Adamantoise/Aspidochelone, Behemoth/King Behemoth, Vrtra/Jormungand/Tiamat, Hydra/Khimaria/Cerberus, etc. All of these monsters are 24hr or longer spawns, with lengthy spawn windows forcing people to camp for hours. All of these monsters generally had multiple linkshells all accuisng eahcother of botting and cheating to get the pull. This aspect of HNM certainly wasn't popular with anyone who didn't have a bot.