DEV attention: We request some change to open world!

[Gilthas]

If you honestly feel that way, I don't think anything I can say will change how you feel, however I have suggested some things that would remove the whole "exclusive" feel to the rewards from NMs, give it a quick read and let me know if you have any suggestions for roaming / open world NMs. Believe me though when I say I'm all ears for good ideas / suggestions that will grab peoples attention towards putting any content in the game that could / would be fun.

That's just the thing though.

You already have NMs in the game in the form of FATEs (and these could easily be turned into roaming FATE NMs). But people don't like those because everyone can attack the mob so they say there's no strategy.

Of course to this I respond with "make NMs poppable and that way you can have a more strategic fight", but then they don't want that because they want the NMs roaming about.

They basically insist on the exact combination that would allow them to **** over other players.

Case in point - a lot of these threads use FFXI as an example, saying having tons of open-world NMs to hunt 'gave variety', when actually it didn't. Most NMs in FFXI were usually ignored by most players for this reason, players usually instead only overcamped a few particular ones they knew dropped decent gear (*cough cough* Valkurm Emperor, Mee Deggi the Punisher, Roc, Lord of Onzzozo etc), with the vast majority completely ignored simply because their items were just not considered decent enough to care - how many people used to camp Bigmouth Billy for instance? (at least until SE made him drop items related to Synergy that is). Virtually none.

Oh I completely agree with this point. A lot of times you'll see people using arguments like "NM/HNMs were great because they were challenging" yet Jormungand and Hydra were always up on my server. Hell, Vrta had money drops yet linkshells never bothered to farm him because the fight was hard. So much for wanting a challenge.