Quote Originally Posted by Arcaloid View Post
Sorry for maybe a noob question because I never XI and only played 1.0 for like 2 weeks.
But if we have open world 'Boss' monsters like NMs (is that what they are?), what's there to stop 100 players come and kill them in 10 seconds? Like what happened now to Odin (I know we can't kill Odin in 10 seconds but I suppose NMs are weaker than Odin?).
That will be like some free loot for people who bother running them, rather than some challenge/team work/fun.
This. They would have to change the fundamental mechanics of battle in the game so that unlike a regular FATE it would be locked to the party that claimed. Even if you used contribution as criteria, it would wind up meaningless if 100 people hammered the monster down. Everything is zergable when unlimited people can attack it. Even if you put a huge painful AoE in, it'll just promote zombie zerging like happens with current FATE NMs. And we all know what happens when we introduce claiming...