Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
Nothing in indications of any of the records state that the zones are not instanced. In fact, IIRC this is last live letter was first mention of any sort of concept that there was other parties sharing the same area with you. And from the indications of such, it sounds like it won't be crowded. Again, this is all speculative. But the details I was referring to was the reward structure of Exploratory Missions, the possiblity of randomized loot that could equate to high-tier 210 gear, where before we had no idea whether or not these drops would even be relative to endgame. That changes things rather dramatically.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3263938


It's not the first time they've mentioned that you'd be tackling this with other people aside from your party/alliance. The only thing that's new is that the type of rewards they give, but new content giving rewards is a given., whether or not its equal to tomestone gear or upgraded tomestone gear. Void Ark dropping ilvl 200 or 210 wouldn't make much of a meaningful impact because we're still going to do them anyway if the ilvl 200 pieces are better optimized stats than eso, or its ilvl210 and it serves as an alternate way of gearing toward savage. I just don't feel like it's a good use of their time to go through setting up a liveletter just to announce something like that.

Of course there's also the details they brought up on LoV, but hardly anyone is talking about that from what I see.