Quote Originally Posted by Blitzace View Post
Something i really miss from XI are notorious monsters, this was one of the reasons for me to explore alot of areas, just go out and find some NMs even though the drops were crap i had a blast. i miss alot of things from XI especially my summons rawr.
Well, the wings of the goddess expansion for ffxi is a pretty good example for me. This added a whole new PvE element called Beseiged where an entire city-state would be overrun with enemies and the goal was to beat back the oncoming horde. There were several other elements to it such as certain NPCs missing if you lost, etc. There were also the same scale of battles that took place out in the open world. Dynamic things such as this are what im talking about.

Also, outside of the expansion discussion, I miss NMs as well. Both open world and burning circle. THOSE were true tests of your abilities and the rewards were very much worthwhile (assuming you got a drop)