Hidden Artifacts is an Insult!

[MeeYow]

On the open world HNM thing, they could put in place some of the old claim rules like claimers only being able to attack it - just for HNM (keep normal mobs as they are).

The current claim system would make HNMs too easy to steal, if you can attack them you just get hate and run them to the edge of their leashed area and they go yellow again when the AI makes them return to their territory.

If HNMs do get put in they should have no leash and wander entire zones!

[Skies]

On the open world HNM thing, they could put in place some of the old claim rules like claimers only being able to attack it - just for HNM (keep normal mobs as they are).

The current claim system would make HNMs too easy to steal, if you can attack them you just get hate and run them to the edge of their leashed area and they go yellow again when the AI makes them return to their territory.

If HNMs do get put in they should have no leash and wander entire zones!

The best way to implement an open world HNM is having no such thing as claiming! Rewards are evenly split based on how much people contributed.
Of course, after a certain number of idiots- i mean- campers- I mean- people who want to help is reached the diluted rewards are totally not worth it any longer, this way people stop trying to camp

(i'm being full of hate here because I hate spawn campers)

[Andrien]

This ain't the thread to be discussing HNM pops and claims but, I'll give my opinion on it: Think about Absolute Virtue from sea, Bahamut, or Pandemonium Warden, and Kirin. I think they should make it so we have to kill lesser NM's and get their key-items, and then pop the boss HNM when you gather all the key-items. When you pop the HNM the key-items will disappear so you'll have to farm the key-items again.

This method is a legit way that doesn't involve hours of idle camping. trigger pop ftw

[MoonKeeperr]

look its Nidhogg everyone lol

[Biggs]

I really wouldn't say putting them in instances is a bad thing. They just need to do something about drops where they don't suck.

For fear this is totally off topic, I will keep this short. I Play MMO's to be part of a community, and an organic social experience in a virtual world. Constantly seperating that community in a way that allows for only small interactions with low numbers of people in a contained enviroment is (in my opinion) completely counter intuitive to the genre. I can't get the camping or safari experience I am looking for by going to the zoo, no matter how pretty and awesome they make the zoo look.

If I want instanced combat and questing I will go play Star Wars or Diablo 3.

[Skies]

look its Nidhogg everyone lol

Hrm! I do not bed on that being Nidhogg at all. Reason being is that it's yellow!
Might seem senseless but, yellow really brings about a feeling that it's elemental, same with blue and red enemies WILL make it look like it's ice or fire elemental! And given what i've seen of the Dragoon storyline (all of it) i'm a man that blieves that Nidhogg will be non-elemental. Or at the very, very minimum fire affinity.

[Rydin]

equals...

MH Plesioth

[Duuude007]

[ Theorycraft ]

Each concept art is revealing one of several major NM's which represent one of four very different categories of Boss battles known in previous titles.

English - Yellow Dragon - Elemental Dragonkin [All]
Japanese - Behemoth - Overpowered Open World Bosses [All]
French - Ultima Weapon - Weapons [FFVII-FFXIII]
German - Axbeak? - Unknown

[ /Theorycraft ]

[MrKupo]

What about an Open World Boss that REQUIRES several parties to take down? All participating parties get a chance at a drop. If the mob survives, no one gets any chance at a drop. So rather than people trying to "claim" the HNM, it would be several parties organizing to defeat a boss that would be undefeatable by a single greedy party. This will also promote the idea of the more the merrier. So if you want a chance at a drop, join a participating party.

I've seen this implemented in f2p MMOs before to much success and they are fun as hell.

Those were world bosses that were scheduled to appear at certain times once a week. Everyone would get a message on screen (this could be done via npc linkshell amirite?) an hour and half an hour before the boss spawns. People can head to the spawn location and party up/prepare. All who participated had a chance to a drop. What made it even better was how fast the boss mowed down everyone. It literally required 50+ people to take down one of them.

[Fear]

Bayohne, if its the weekend, you must be alone in the office. Upload some pics of what Ishguard looks like on the inside ^^;

We won't tell anyone ;-x

Promise

xxx

The last time I asked for secrets I got led down the snurble hole