Please do not make group quest open world areas.

[Mugiawara]

You have to team up and fight mobs in open world now!?
Oh no! I have to talk to people now in a MMO.

Not sure the problem. It's going to be the same set-up as FATE's.
You go in PF or people will shout for help. We need this.
This will blossom socializing in the game too. Very happy about this.

[Duelle]

You have to team up and fight mobs in open world now!?
Oh no! I have to talk to people now in a MMO.

Not sure the problem. It's going to be the same set-up as FATE's.

Not really. FATE's difficulty level and mob stats adjust depending on the number of people participating. Once something stops being relevant, people will move on and those areas will be pain to do/traverse through. You're ignoring one of the key parts of human nature without thinking of the consequences to gameplay and the experience.

[Mugiawara]

Nvm.
ITT: People are scared of mobs lol.

[m3eansean]

Everyone keeps citing flying as avoiding these mobs.

In the benchmark is shows a group of adventurers flying around, then getting ganked by a giant flying whale thing.

I don't think flying will relieve us from the aggro of the mobs in these new zones personally.

[Evantide]

Open world is what builds lasting friendships, and gives the game a real atmosphere. To be honest with you, queing for dungeons allows for people to become bitter and unfriendly, since they will never see you again. If everything was instanced then there would be no need to have an open world at all. I say bring it on!

[Duelle]

People hate challenge outside of Coil it looks like.

"Challenge" as in, "you're dead if a mob so much as looks at you without someone taking hits and someone making the green bars full"? Yes, that belongs in dungeons and raids. A and S-rank hunt mobs also fall into this.

Don't forget we'll get flying mounts so it won't be bad.

You can't mount once you have aggro, since it counts as you being in combat.

Maybe people should start making friends and starting FC's so they won't feel so alone.
By 50 and so, you should have some friends or a FC to help you run through.

Sure, let's screw over people who work irregular shifts and are usually on their own because of it. This is in spite of me having met people along my travels and being part of a decent-sized FC on my server. Having the option to group up for stuff outside of dungeons and raids is nice. Being forced to group up isn't. That's where the difference lies.

[Raeletta]

"Challenge" as in, "you're dead if a mob so much as looks at you without someone taking hits and someone making the green bars full"? Yes, that belongs in dungeons and raids. A and S-rank hunt mobs also fall into this.
You can't mount once you have aggro, since it counts as you being in combat.
Sure, let's screw over people who work irregular shifts and are usually on their own because of it. This is in spite of me having met people along my travels and being part of a decent-sized FC on my server. Having the option to group up for stuff outside of dungeons and raids is nice. Being forced to group up isn't. That's where the difference lies.

Again, I'll paraphrase yoshi: "You may have to prepare to flee or fight to your best if you pull two monsters at once" and "You may want to ask for help to enter beastmen strongholds" not "You solo, you die, group up or get lost" like you seem to interperate it.

[Duelle]

Again, I'll paraphrase yoshi: "You may have to prepare to flee or fight to your best if you pull two monsters at once" and "You may want to ask for help to enter beastmen strongholds" not "You solo, you die, group up or get lost" like you seem to interperate it.

Considering the former is generally a polite way of saying the latter (much like saying "you might want to bring a healer" means "bring a healer or you have an extremely high chance of dying"), that ain't much comfort.

We'll see how mob scaling goes. And I'll laugh if I start seeing "nerf open world mobs" posts in about 3 months or so.

[Raeletta]

Considering the former is generally a polite way of saying the latter (much like saying "you might want to bring a healer" means "bring a healer or you have an extremely high chance of dying"), that ain't much comfort.

We'll see how mob scaling goes. And I'll laugh if I start seeing "nerf open world mobs" posts in about 3 months or so.

And we'll fight every step of the way. We lost the fight for Steps, but considering the ease of getting 8 morons to hit anything in range and one healer to spam aoe heals, this shouldn't be a fight we lose.