Open World Content.

[ErBear]

Hello Rokien here again, I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. I was just curious if they added any decent open world content yet or is it all still a spam fest of aoe? From what I have seen the only good gear is still obtained from instances that makes an mmo just a multiplayer game.

[KiriA500]

Oh snap, Rokien! How have you been?

As for open world content, no, it's still an AoE spam, where it will continue to be so until they completely rework every class to not have those abilities. Only now, you can earn allied seals to buy good gear, so it makes it even more obnoxious how many people are doing it!

[Zumi]

Oh snap, Rokien! How have you been?

As for open world content, no, it's still an AoE spam, where it will continue to be so until they completely rework every class to not have those abilities. Only now, you can earn allied seals to buy good gear, so it makes it even more obnoxious how many people are doing it!

Are you forgetting they just added hunt NMs? Which is open world content that some FFXI players been asking for.

[KiriA500]

Are you forgetting they just added hunt NMs? Which is open world content that some FFXI players been asking for.

Hunts are not what people wanted, unless I'm totally reading every single complaint on them wrong.

[ispano]

Hunts are not what people wanted, unless I'm totally reading every single complaint on them wrong.

Well, it sort of is. People wanted open world content, and well, this fits. People also wanted meaningful rewards from it, ie sands/oil in this case. They however didn't realize what would happen by asking for that. One of the fixes some have suggested is to make them like maps, ie force popped. That's not open world content. It just happens to be in the open world, the content itself is not open.

[Zumi]

Hunts are not what people wanted, unless I'm totally reading every single complaint on them wrong.

You had open world NMs, which some people asked for. Put some of the best top tier gear on it in the form of oils and sands. Then are surprised when the whole server is hunting these down because they offer some of the best rewards in the game. You asked for open world content with good rewards and should expect a high level of competition on hunting them.

[ErBear]

You had open world NMs, which some people asked for. Put some of the best top tier gear on it in the form of oils and sands. Then are surprised when the whole server is hunting these down because they offer some of the best rewards in the game. You asked for open world content with good rewards and should expect a high level of competition on hunting them.

Pretty sure that the people and I asked for NOTORIOUS monsters and not just push overs. Lets take a look at 1.0 for a second and its great buffalo. Not only did you have to gather a team for it but it also utilized crafters to make the best gear, unlike this game where crafters are no more than vanity. They actually help the good fight, but oh well

[ErBear]

Oh snap, Rokien! How have you been?

As for open world content, no, it's still an AoE spam, where it will continue to be so until they completely rework every class to not have those abilities. Only now, you can earn allied seals to buy good gear, so it makes it even more obnoxious how many people are doing it!

Great thank you!! Just been playing other games waiting for other mmos, some of my friends are still playing this game and they try to get me to come back all the time, but I just don't see why I should yet if most of my time is spent spamming or instances. So I thought I should ask you guys if they have fixed any of those problems yet.

[silentwindfr]

@Zumi, you had already NM, they was FATE boss... what some people was complaining about this is the fact that the loot was normalized by giving seal/gil only.
by the way your soo amazing hunt that FF11 player have ask and did get (even if it's not the same) are only FATE without UI.

the game had open world content, sadly with the population per server and the size of the world, this content was blow away by the zergfest... and strangely, your precious hunt are still a zergfest, since i often see more of 20-40 people on a monster for a group of 2-4 person.

ps: i wish the FF11 player stop to ask to turn FF14 into FF11-2, the relic quest it's this insane grind fest because of this, the hunt have become a joke too. seriously FF11 was another game way too much different for bring feature that was working there.
you had less player per server, you had a far more wider world too. NM was working there because of this.
the grindfest was working too because the add of content wasn't this important every 3 month.

now let's simply hope SE will wake up and stop to listen to the nostalgic player of FF11 and make us a true FF14:ARR! not this desperate try to please a community that come from another game.

[silentwindfr]

Claimed monsters can't work in FF14:ARR, simply because the world is too small and the number of people per server is too important.
it will only lead to return of some cheat like the claimbot or other stuff like this. we already see it with the radar some use.

however something that can work is to reword leves for allows people to help the one doing leves and add high level one with big monster.
Faction leves need to be bring back and enhanced... not what we did get.