No sense of fear in this game.

[WeekendSoja]

With the lacking death penalty, which is just a percent of damage to gear and the loss of some time, there really is no feeling of danger anymore. Having a penalty was what pushed some players into fits of anxiety lol which is super funny when you are on voice chat with them.

I used to get annoyed in 1.0 though, when everything had a ranged attack...Agro a squirrel, ranged attack. Agro a bee, ranged attack. See a dead dragoon in 1.18+...it's probably because he agro'd the floor and it decided to range attack that person.

[Xlantaa]

That Clockwork Bit near the Adamantite node in Azys Lla is kinda scary...

THis is the embodiment of evilness.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I would definately like to see some kinda endgame zone that's more difficult and doesn't have teleporters all over the place with fun quests to do inside. Something similar to FFXI's Eldieme Necropolis or Beastman strongholds. Maybe every raid/gear patch they could add a new zone with new stuff to do inside it so people don't over item level it.

[Blackcanary]

I don't know if fear is the right word, but I never feel like anything out in the world is particularly challenging or a danger to me. There are no WoW style high level enemies patrolling zones that will destroy you if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only time enemies can be a threat is for certain quests where you have to go through an area of hostile enemies to reach a point and rather than fight your way through, you decide to take the risk and run straight to the objective and pray you can take whatever is still following you when you get there. That's about the only time the world ever "felt" dangerous to me, when I put myself in that kind of situation intentionally.

Yea I agree with you. In those zone where I don't feel like me going through this area would be a bad idea for me I just jump on my mount and just ride on. Like there's nothing to worry about because there isn't anything to worry about.

[Blackcanary]

Wouldn't it be great if the odd A rank suddenly appeared in the Markets. The Carnage, the emergency response button that instantly changes you to your main character (that hasn't been developed yet) The gil sellers dying on the spot, along with all the lower levels.

There was a city in Final Fantasy XI where ever so often mobs would brake into the city and you had to kill them in the market area that was so much fun.

[Whiteroom]

It was brought up. And the devs made the 3.0 stuff hp sponges in response. They also made them hit harder, and gave so little exp in fates that people just stayed in North Than.


Now, that is not so say they can't have areas that are fearsome, they just did it wrong, and made it annoying, not fearsome. At least they eventually made the fate exp worth while, after a good majority had already leveled a class..

It would be nice to see things like some of the more agressive S Ranks actually rampaging, rather than standing around, waiting to be slapped. And it would be nice to see a couple of areas be more dangerous. But nowadays you have to include good rewards with that danger to make it worth while. Everyone is focused on the tome treadmill and capping that the rewards have to be enough to take them away from it, maybe this is what Palace of the Dead could be. But I would love to see an open world dungeon like that instead of instanced.

[VanilleFang]

I think I'd enjoy the main cities getting overrun by small fuzzy bunnies of the monty python and the holy grail variety. Just hundreds and thousands of small fuzzy white bunny rabbits. We need the old FFXI days of having our butts handed to us by fuzzy harmless looking creatures.

[Morzy]

That Clockwork Bit near the Adamantite node in Azys Lla is kinda scary...

When scripts first came out this monster killed like 12 unexpected players.

[WinterLuna]

Agree with the OP, even gathering without Stealth just makes me laugh when I die. I'm gonna have to spend 3k to repair? Tragedy.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

There's always dark souls