Seriously 3-5 minute repop on NMs?

[Akumu]

Greetings, fellow adventurers!

As some of you have mentioned, the notorious monsters that were added on Patch 1.17 are designed for mid-rank players. So for those of you who have already reached to a higher rank, they may feel less of a challenge.

However we are planning to introduce new notorious monsters with more devastating strength and a complete new look in the future. We will give you an update once more details become available so please look forward to it!

Great post Gildrein and now hopefully the majority wanting a challenge will cool off. However, the hardcore(niche group) probably won't and will just cry more and more. Bring out the warm milk because it's time to put these babies to sleep.

[Anty]

i really cant understand why theres so much flaming around because of the pop timer. Like many posted already, some ppl really are not lucky and it takes a very long time to get a rare but still honestly just average item.

What are you guys expecting from a lvl 30(ish) NM? I would never camp an NM with competitors just to get an item that i might use for some lvls and then get a better crafted item. (if it had a longer repop rate, since combined with drop rates it can take a long time, and i do play a lot but i dont wanna waste time waiting. thats no challenge and retarded in any way possible. Making the fights harder is another thing, i would welcome that as well but its not needed so much).

Another thing is. i have seen mostly lvl 50 camping these NMS. I did it with friends in the low 30ies usually. Low lvl group, with not perfect setups and i had great fun (ok its also the ppl i like adding to that but still...).
If you want a challenge guys (i mean the lvl 50ies) dont go there with 6-8 ppl at lvl 50 *yawn*. I know its much easier this way but dont complain that theres no challenge then.

IF you want that item for your other job kill it when you are in the 30ies or late 20ies on that particular job, if you want the challenge.

Killing them in the 50ies is as boring as getting powerleveled. And as SE stated they are gonna implement harder mobs and nms and i bet they scale a lot in difficulty and drop rates the better stuff they are dropping. So no need to flame on that additional content.

For now i think its a nice way of adding some fun things to do to the masses. its not like i wanna wait for the little content existing in the game atm. i wanna do it. Nobody really needs more Waiting-Content... honestly...

I loved playing FFXI as well and i loved the challenges but i bet they will also add a lot of challenging content in the near future in FFXIV.

But waiting wasnt the strenght of FFXI. It was one of the bad things the game had imo.
And i do remember being part of a HNM shell for a short time. Ive never seen so much hatred caused by these rare pop rates and rare drops, as ive seen there. Definitely nothing that makes a game better. And getting rid of any RL activity (including eating and sleeping) just to get a drop. Whoever wants that to happen in ffxiv i bet its not gonna happen and i DO hope its never gonna happen. Challenge "yes, please" Waiting, Timesinks = "No, thanks"

[Neptune]

Unfortunately, I fear it won't be, because he talked about "strenght", not "waiting". Some don't want a challenge. They want to wait.

Amen brother. I just converted.

Can't people express their views without the 'opposition' demeaning them? You are completely misrepresenting the issue and you know you are.

No way he's right, people are asking for masochism. They need an excuse to feel better than other people because of all the hard work they put in.. to a videogame.

No. I didn't. I obviously talked about "Some", and it's rather obvious that some people around here are quite clearly giving the timesink aspect of old-style nm hunting a higher priority than any kind of challenge.

Amen, amen. Good service today.

that is going to end up happening anyway.... >.>? don't make me log in ffxi and count how many ppl have bounding boots or empress hairpin or kirin osode, kirons pole or belck belt etc. I'm bored enough and ebd up doing it XD

That's exactly right.. O-Hat was a hard to get item.. didn't matter.. O-Hat runs. Gear up and let's head out we're going to spend the next week or two getting everyone O-Hats, cause we're hardcore. What difference would it have made to its rarity if it dropped off a lvl 1 sheep? Everyone would have one anyway.