Naoki Yoshida interview @Gamescom

[MilesSaintboroguh]

So basically, hunts and diadem in a new coat of paint.

[Kosmos992k]

So basically, hunts and diadem in a new coat of paint.

Only if the rewards are drops, not guaranteed, and everything can respawn. The boss class monsters should be very difficult so that all but the best equipped groups need to avooid them. I'm thinking of something akin to the Free Monster Quests in White Knight Chronicles, if anyone remembers those, they'll know what I mean.

[drivendawn]

So basically, hunts and diadem in a new coat of paint.

So what would you like to be seen added in a nut shell. I mean this to encourage meaningful conversation not as a jab. It isn't easy to come up with new content that fits well in the core mechanics of the game. So sometimes hearing our feed back can give SE ideas. I would like to have open world dungeons that scale your lvl when you go in them and have harder regular enemies, as in you can't kill one by yourself. Also they could have special gathering points as well as there own NM's in them that you can get loot from and maybe randomly spawning coffers that have the same. I doubt this will happen though I can still hope.

[Felis]

So basically, hunts and diadem in a new coat of paint.

Not 100%
There can spawn a portal or a NPC you have to click on to join. It can send you to the instance (if the battle is instanced) or can work like a leve to unlock the boss for you. This way the maximal numbers of participants can have a limit.
And they can build in a gearlevel-synch into that mechanic to keep the boss challenging even after 2 more patches.

Open World content can work, so long it is not open battle with no participants limit.