Solo and Open World Relevancy

[Gehena]

Can we get some relevant open world content?
Can we get some solo content?
Can we get anything to break away from the current weekly cap monotony?

Grinding the same set of dungeons for over two years was cool and all, but I'm sure most of us are tired of feeling like Walmart associates when in-game...

#JustGehennaThings I guess....

[Adualion]

I'm sick of not having a sense of adventure in the open world as well. FFXI had a couple of things right, and one of them was needing to party up to explore the areas that held hard enemies. I'm not asking for sneak/invis/deodorize, but I'd really like the open world to engage me in the exploration. I would not be able to number the amount of times where I made a group to specifically run around in the dangerous areas of a place just for the fun of it. It was really fun for me to try to explore an area with some friends when I could be killed by an enemy.

[Twilite]

I don't want that back >_>. Keep it as is, but do add some kind of variety of events.

[Dante_V]

I think we will be getting some in 3.1 if I'm not mistaken with the island adventures and relic quest (possibly open world content?)

[Adualion]

I don't want that back >_>. Keep it as is, but do add some kind of variety of events.

I understand why you wouldn't want all the areas to be dangerous, but at the same time the entire world is completely safe to run around in. I can kill an entire army of mobs single handedly, and I'm losing my immersion this way. I go to a dungeon and enemies are much harder to kill than the ones in the overworld. The overworld itself is pathetic in terms of enemies. The only time I'm in any danger is when I'm very underleveled for a zone. I think it would be better to create a dangerous overworld and perhaps even make the enemies give enough XP that it would be worth it to fight them instead of grinding fates or spamming dungeons.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Ok but what if you're at the level cap?

[Gehena]

I'm sick of not having a sense of adventure in the open world as well. FFXI had a couple of things right, and one of them was needing to party up to explore the areas that held hard enemies. I'm not asking for sneak/invis/deodorize, but I'd really like the open world to engage me in the exploration. I would not be able to number the amount of times where I made a group to specifically run around in the dangerous areas of a place just for the fun of it. It was really fun for me to try to explore an area with some friends when I could be killed by an enemy.

My point exactly..

I want to be able to tackle any relevant content with a particularly low number of people or even by myself (if mechanics allow it obviously). I'm not asking to change the obvious intentional progression block they've created (weekly cap/lockout), but to allow me the satisfaction of being an individual and otherwise stagnant game.

[Adualion]

Ok but what if you're at the level cap?

I wouldn't find it unreasonable to be able to kill an enemy at the level cap, but should we really be able to kill an entire force of enemies like this? I found this to be dismaying as I had killed bahamut yet was stopped by a few simple guards in the 2.0 storyline. Either I'm the strongest guy around, or I'm not. The overworld is a giant pushover compared to dungeons, trials, or raids. I think we should have a harder time in the overworld and it should increase our rewards for exploring. I also find it hard to change, considering gatherers have to travel and entire map to gather certain items.

[Gehena]

I understand why you wouldn't want all the areas to be dangerous, but at the same time the entire world is completely safe to run around in. I can kill an entire army of mobs single handedly, and I'm losing my immersion this way. I go to a dungeon and enemies are much harder to kill than the ones in the overworld. The overworld itself is pathetic in terms of enemies. The only time I'm in any danger is when I'm very underleveled for a zone. I think it would be better to create a dangerous overworld and perhaps even make the enemies give enough XP that it would be worth it to fight them instead of grinding fates or spamming dungeons.

last I recall MMOs were suppose to emulate a sense of the danger of venturing alone... Believe it or not something as simple as "a sense of danger" can further enhance your gaming experience.

[Maikeru]

Yeaaaah... I'm all down for more open world danger but... you see... my experience with this community (Actually, it's more like a thing everywhere) is:

1) SE introduces hard content. People demand nerf.
2) SE introduces easy content. People want hard content.

HW tried to bring some sense danger back and some relevancy to the new overworld map. They first failed when FATEs weren't profiteable and hunts only lasted for a bit until people got all their things upgraded and/or the upgrade elements were added to the LAW store. This expansion surely looks like an empty box, like when 2.0 was released (We actually have more things to do compared to these dark times). Granted, not all the content is appealing to everybody, but I'm sure, as the next patches go live, the dev. team will start to shape their world to make it more "relevant" for everybody, depends on what you consider "relevant", that's it.

HW maps are way bigger and it saddens me to see them so empty... however, I'm not a game developer at all, so I can't come up with ideas that could bring them back to life. So, I put my faith on the users with a nice vision for that subject and the dev. team themselves, as they gather or create ideas to revamp the current system.