Hidden Artifacts is an Insult!

[VytasBismarck]

I would LOVE to see your evidence to back this up. While there is no doubt botting going on, I have yet to meet a single person who does it. I sincerely doubt the botters are the majority, or even a third of the player base.

You my dear sir must be blind or very optimistic or play very rarely
or all of the above lols

Back on topic, naming an old concept art "new" was a lame move by SE but oh well, no big deal - im one of those retarded fanboys that will play this game till it gets to a low point of abyssea lols

[Kiara]

BTW, why is every dungeon/raid in a cave? Other than the fact that the starting development team already built the dungeons they've used so far.

Hi Libby,

I think it's *precisely* the reason you just stated. The current Raids are in "caves" probably due to the fact that 2.0 is going to redesign the entire World Map / Overworld.

So if they develop Dungeons that are "self-contained" (in Caves / Instances), they can port those over to 2.0 pretty cleanly: With a brand new Redesigned World Map, they can put the entrance to, say, Aurum Vale or Dzemael Darkhold at any "cave" mouth they make in 2.0.

Of course, I'd love to see an "open-air"-type Dungeon / Raid, but with the new Textures / Design / Landmarks, etc. they want to do for 2.0, I can see them holding off on that until 2.0 launches.

[Fear]

Elexia, may wanna edit the bots name out of your post.

The thing is you can't really tell a bot from a normal player, most things are repetative so people use bots, if it changes and becomes more interesting it may slow down.

[Alerith]

Gaius Van Baelsar and Nael van Darnus are Ultima and Omega!!

Totally called it.

[DarthTaru]

The bot hysteria over open world HNMs is to me amusing, likely coming from a majority of people who never even did endgame but "heard stories" and are now experts on the subject. A lot of players in FFXIV currently use fish bots and craft bots and whatever other kinds of bots. Most FFXIV players can also barely beat Ifrit.

I highly doubt that because someone has "bots" a lvl 95 HNM Ultima Weapon will just lay down and die for them.
The bot hysteria that comes up when someone mentions "open-world" is laughable and misinformed.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Gaius Van Baelsar and Nael van Darnus are Ultima and Omega!!

...

[Zdenka]

If justice is done to Ultima he won't be beaten for a year and then only by the absolute best players on every server.
It deserves no less. Even if he's added to the game with 2.0 I wouldn't mind if he's completely untouchable until an ultimate level cap increase.

Very exciting.

Hoping he's to be a zone roaming open world HNM.

Terrible Idea, it even contradicts itself.
-Open World = Dead in 10m as soon as its found. In the current game state its literally impossible to make any open world NM extremely strong because outside parties can now damage claimed mobs.

Think of how fast 1 WAR, 1 WHM, and 62 BLM (8 parties of 8) could destroy it; just think of how fast 5 BLM destroy garuda.

Even without my very very skewed example, people would still be able to zerg it with whatever they have.

This means guilds that have the most people (and probably are not the most skilled) will be the ones with the server first kills.

Unless how open world works changes; please leave all difficult bosses instanced.

[Alerith]

Terrible Idea, it even contradicts itself.
-Open World = Dead in 10m as soon as its found. In the current game state its literally impossible to make any open world NM extremely strong because outside parties can now damage claimed mobs.

Think of how fast 1 WAR, 1 WHM, and 62 BLM (8 parties of 8) could destroy it; just think of how fast 5 BLM destroy garuda.

Even without my very very skewed example, people would still be able to zerg it with whatever they have.

This means guilds that have the most people (and probably are not the most skilled) will be the ones with the server first kills.

Unless how open world works changes; please leave all difficult bosses instanced.

Numbers in stats will always trump numbers in forces.

You can take those 62 BLM, but if they only deal 14 damage with their best spells at level 50 against a mob who has hundreds of thousands, if not a million, HP, then it's not going to happen. Not to mention if it has any sort of reasonable HP Regen.

Throw in status effects, possible petrification, hate reset, long range silence, charm, etc. Who knows what nasty abilities it will have?

Forces in numbers does not equal victory.

[DarthTaru]

I really don't see the `anyone can attack a claimed mob` mechanic continuing shortly after linkshells demonstrate how easy it is to rain on peoples parade via intentionally triggering certain attacks by pulling hate under certain conditions.
Imagine if this were how it worked in XI. Rival linkshells would send their DRK's into Tia fights to zerg from behind and force tail flails to wipe everyone out.

I don't have much faith that SE will continue with that system for long.
Bring on open world.

[Rydin]

I really don't see the `anyone can attack a claimed mob` mechanic continuing shortly after linkshells demonstrate how easy it is to rain on peoples parade via intentionally triggering certain attacks by pulling hate under certain conditions.
Imagine if this were how it worked in XI. Rival linkshells would send their DRK's into Tia fights to zerg from behind and force tail flails to wipe everyone out.

I don't have much faith that SE will continue with that system for long.
Bring on open world.

What's worse is no one asked for it. We wanted to be able to claim multiple unclaimed MOBs at a time... But I never saw anyone ask to be able to attack a MOB claimed by someone else.