[dev1031]New High Level Notorious Monsters Please

[syntaxlies]

/inb4 2.0 fix

good thing cause thats a year away.
so would it be better to put a delay in now or wait for the ever coveted 2.0 fix

[Clydey]

they did this on XI with claim block. Random block between 1.5secs and 3 secs after it spawned (server time) before it could be claimed and attempting to claim would put your ability on cooldown even if it failed.

Server latency seems to be around 1/2 sec or very slightly over it for most ppl. So the same claim block system should work.

One of our members tested this recently. The results were pretty interesting. Germany seemed to have it worst, followed by the UK. One of our German members lags a second and a half behind the NA members (which is a bitch to deal with on Ifrit abilities).

[Hiten]

Great supporting argument. Funny how the majority of people posting on this topic are in favor of NMs, though.

There are times when the majority should get what they ask for. But when that affects the variety of content a game has to offer, no. Just because the majority wants instanced content, it doesn't mean that free-for-all open world content should be nixed completely, which is exactly what you're asking.

Step outside the box for a minute and you'll easily see that your selfishness is no different from that of the elitists shells you seem to loathe so much.

As much as you want to say, the game is inclined towards Instanced stuff and even if they place in open world content, the loot isn't going to be as good as Instanced Areas. Even so with timed pops, Instanced gear will have the upper hand. So you can counter my argument as much as you want but unfortunately the direction Yoshi is headed in majority is Instanced.

[Tango]

As much as you want to say, the game is inclined towards Instanced stuff and even if they place in open world content, the loot isn't going to be as good as Instanced Areas. Even so with timed pops, Instanced gear will have the upper hand. So you can counter my argument as much as you want but unfortunately the direction Yoshi is headed in majority is Instanced.

Actually the direction he is headed, or said he was headed, is for crafted gear to better than any raid gear, instanced or otherwise.

[Eva]

I would love to see some high level NM's that are too hard for one person but can be killed with two people. Give something fun for you and your buddy to do. Honestly, it is so hard to get a party of 8 together on my server atm, if you are not in an end-game linkshell there is really nothing to do. I really believe having more content for 2-4 players to do (which is rewarding) could really save this game until 2.0.

A good drop would be Tier IV materia. You could make an NM for each kind of materia and the materia they drop could coincide with the kind of challenge the battle had. For example a wind based mob that uses wind attacks could drop Wind Resit+ materia. A mob that needs to be killed with magic attacks can drop Magic Attack+ materia.

This would be so awesome!

[MeowyWowie]

As much as you want to say, the game is inclined towards Instanced stuff and even if they place in open world content, the loot isn't going to be as good as Instanced Areas. Even so with timed pops, Instanced gear will have the upper hand. So you can counter my argument as much as you want but unfortunately the direction Yoshi is headed in majority is Instanced.

What's the point of bringing up the current direction of the game in a suggestion thread? The whole point is to change the direction a bit. Is that all you had to fall back on after realizing how hypocritical you were being before?

And by the way, NM gear can be better than raided and normal crafted gear, it doesn't have to be rare/ex. Dodore doublet is a good example (BiS for Craftsmanship). And that's been out since like last November?

[Firon]

Why do people always have to use the botting comment about open world nm's every time someone mentions it. If my ls claimed a mob in XI my ls was always called bots even tho my ls was a ps2 only ls lol.....

[MeowyWowie]

Why do people always have to use the botting comment about open world nm's every time someone mentions it. If my ls claimed a mob in XI my ls was always called bots even tho my ls was a ps2 only ls lol.....

Because just like the people that screamed "BOTTT!!!" when your LS claimed something, they're just sore losers.

Botting will never go away. There's no reason it should deter SE from adding more content.

[HiirNoivl]

Yeah All they have to do is make a mob, jack up the level give it some drop and a funny name and put ??? in front of it.

Why are there not more of these?

[MeowyWowie]

Exactly. They can release 50+ NMs in the time it takes them to make 1 dungeon. That's enough content to keep us busy for a very long time.