Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
Aiming for compromise is dumb. Nobody has stated why 3-5mins is "too short". Except "its too short" and perhaps "too extreme change from XI", to which I reply, who cares? If there is no proper argument for the cooldown it should not be changed in any way. "I can't deal with this massive of a change without getting a seizure" is not a proper argument.
I'm a FFXI vet, and I can tell you first hand that a good portion (but not all) of the players are masochists. They complain about everything. It's like if you were locked up in a cave your entire life, and you suddenly find a way to get out. You see the sunlight, then complain it's too bright, and you want to go back in. They are very very very afraid of change :P

Like it or not SE is not going back to the old staple of having 3~24 hour nm pops. If you haven't been paying attention to XI lately the NM's outside of abyssea are about to have pop time reductions all around. Even the land kings are going to see a massive redux. As I said before Notorious Monsters should be notorious because of their difficulty to kill, not notorious because of their timmers. Spawn time =/= difficulty, it just means exclusion of people with windowed playtimes. If you're worried about everyone wearing the same gear as you, it's going to happen if the gear is good enough. For those saying they don't want to see everyone going around with the awesome gear, even if the spawn timmer was 6 hours and it had a horrid droprate; you'd only get to lord that special gear around for a few months before you'd start seeing a lot of other people trotting around with it.

This is XIV. This is not XI, and this is not WoW. The dev team knows what they're doing, so have a little patience. If you don't find this content enjoyable, then wait till they add the endgame stuff (which probably won't be for a while since it's still F2P and the battle system is being reworked). I've gotten maat's cap before abyssea, I've done limbus, I've done sky, I've done dynamis, I've done abyssea, I've tagged along for HNMs, I've done salvage, etc... I have hardcored in xi big time. I like XIV's change of pace from XI. I think the dev team knows what they're doing, and I think by summer it's going to make a big turnaround.