Dungeons Opening Up To Explore.

[Naunet]

XIV's dungeons suffer from the same claustrophobic tunneling as its open world maps do. So many invisible walls guiding you to very particular points of an area... In That Other MMO, while the dungeons were often fairly linear, I at least felt like I was exploring the entirety of the location, instead of just a tiny fraction that devs have allowed me to see.

[Gnova]

I'd settle for something as simple as when the last loot chest has been opened and the loot claimed all the remaining mobs and leftover chests despawn. Then you can explore and look around where you maybe have never been and take in the sights.

Allowing gathering or mining in an instance can end up being a problem since it would end up being botted with no one to report them.

[Qfox]

i would do anything .. anything .. to have open dungeons .. so me and my little chocobo go in and explore !! i'll be HAPPY

[Blackcanary]

i would do anything .. anything .. to have open dungeons .. so me and my little chocobo go in and explore !! i'll be HAPPY

Yea that would be amazing. And if it was done right Duty Finder would need to be removed. They could even just give us dungeons that are not instance based and have nothing to do with Duty Finder. Give us the best of both worlds. This is another idea it means anybody that would like to explore an open world dungeon can and if they made it so there was no invisible walls that would be even better. There would have to be loads of them ether if each zone had about 1 big one 2 medium sizes one and 3 mini ones. I don't know when it comes to scale what Yoshida san and his team base it on. Depending on the sizes of the zones depends how many there are.

[Felis]

The spriggan cave in the central shroud would be a good place for an open world dungeon.

[Blackcanary]

The spriggan cave in the central shroud would be a good place for an open world dungeon.

I love that area its one of my favorite places to kill a Fate.

[Titor]

Random generated content is awesome, but if it's to be any good it usually becomes a bit complex (as in, a staple/focal point of many games is random generated content). I doubt it will be implemented anytime soon.

I would like the ability to enter the dungeon at a higher level and steamroll through it myself. I really enjoyed doing this in WoW to farm for gear that I wanted for transmog or just for fun.

[TomTom1968]

I'd love to see more extra elements. Like having to do special mechanics in order to open a gate to be able to fight extra monsters, an extra boss, get extra chests and what not. Dungeon rewards should be dependant on the amount of goals you have accomplished in it. If incentives are good enough, it also might reduce the amount of speed runs people are doing.

[Lambadelta]

Holy Necromancy.

I do not think they will make dungeons you can explore, and gather in due to the fact it can be botted, and fills up the instance server.

[TheGrimace]

I'm still for this. I loved the open dungeons in 1.0 and they're one of the things I miss most, along with ever-present NMs. NMs done in such a way may no longer be reasonable with the direction the game has gone, but I still like the idea presented in the OP of being able to revisit old dungeons that have been repurposed from instances into being actual zones. It's one more reason I'm looking forward to Deep Dungeon/Palace of the Dead/Midlight's Deep/Pick you own Matsuno reference. More exploration is always nice.