Planning to convert all dungeons into instanced raids.

[Jinko]

When I'm in your dungeon jackin all your NM's and experience, you'll be glad there are instances.

This !!!

I mean how frustrating was it when they added those mid level NMs and everyone and their granny was waiting around to make the first claim.

Nothing like a sense of community when everyone is getting pissy with one another because they aren't fast enough to get the claim.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I like camping NMs in the sense of trying to out claim another player (its exciting and exhilarating to me) and since the NMs have like a 5 min respawn rate it really makes it not too big of a deal. (XI on the other made me a little more sad if say I missed the Argus claim and had to wait an additional 18hr with ridiculous spawning conditions)

[Jinko]

I like camping NMs in the sense of trying to out claim another player (its exciting and exhilarating to me) and since the NMs have like a 5 min respawn rate it really makes it not too big of a deal. (XI on the other made me a little more sad if say I missed the Argus claim and had to wait an additional 18hr with ridiculous spawning conditions)

Tell that to the poor party who has missed out on a claim for the last hour.

You may enjoy rubbing your superiority of claiming mobs in someones face (oh sorry I meant the competitivness) but im sure they don't appreciate it at all, and many times I have seem people just standing around jeering the others to create tension and anomosity and generally act like P***s

If you think that fosters a sense of community spirit then you can think again.

[Arcell]

Tell that to the poor party who has missed out on a claim for the last hour.

You may enjoy rubbing your superiority of claiming mobs in someones face (oh sorry I meant the competitivness) but im sure they don't appreciate it at all, and many times I have seem people just standing around jeering the others to create tension and anomosity and generally act like P***s

If you think that fosters a sense of community spirit then you can think again.

While I mostly agree, because things spawn so quickly it often isn't so bad. Hell on multiple occasions our we've managed to work out deals with other groups, usually agreeing on alternating kills. In the recent strongholds our LS has actually worked together with other Linkshells to get to and farm the NMs.

Claim wars do suck though if no agreeable resolution is reached though and yeah it can cause some unnecessary drama.

[Rokien]

Waiting for a pop, trying to get that claim, really pumps me up! If I lose it, ya I get upset, but I get a high and thats what counts. I don't get any high doing an instanced dungeon. I love the rank 20 dungeon over the 30 or 50 one. The fact taht its 5 floors tall. You have to get keys, open chests, do stuff to pop the nms. There is more stuff to do in that dungeon then the rank 30-50 one. All you have to do is run through those to get all the chests.

[Tezz_Xivectro]

Open world is so much more than just claiming NMs. You people should be ashamed.

[smokymcweed]

i dont want a shit load of instanced content i hate time limited events leave the dungoens alone and balance the in tsances equaly so that all players can enjoy the game instead of just the WoW converts some of us actualy hate WoW implament ffxi party search system liked it alot if you could combine the cross server search with an ffxi type search system that would be nice and if the majority agree with the op that is the comunity imo

[Tsukino]

I like instances. They are great when I want to join a party and accomplish an objective in a set amount of time, or try to obtain specific pieces of equipment, and all the other good things they do. The game should have them.

But the OP is right, this single piece of information has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read from the development team. Some areas should simply be inside a cave, volcano, mine, enemy village/outpost/stronghold, or literal dungeon. I should be able to enter some or most of these places by myself sometimes to explore and do things by myself or with a friend or two without the game giving me an objective and a time limit. Similarly, there should be some "raids" that take place in an outdoor area rather than a dungeon.

The idea that every time I can't see the sky I need to have a certain number of people and can only spend a certain amount of time there is just ridiculous.