New 4.X open field monsters will be a shorter fight.

[Pinkie_Pie]

http://gamerescape.com/2017/02/18/fr...ss-conference/

Robert MMORPG: Can we see inconsequential monster encounters have battle time reduced?

Yoshida: We do believe with 3.x that some regular field battles were a little longer than usual so with 4.0 they’ll be shorter.

So pretty much if you wanted a harder fight or at least make the world seem dangerous, don't expect that soon, mobs will die just like AAR health style, die in 2-3 hits leaving you with pretty much 95% health. SIGH.

I want the field open world monsters to be MORE of a danger, not a fly buzzing around you.

[Altena]

Yessss I read this and was extremely annoyed that question even came up..

The interviewer wanted them to be even EASIER?! I nearly cried.. (well.. Not literally)..

That baffles me.. Gone are the days of 1.0 where running through beastment strongholds could actually get you killed. Yes we are Warriors of Light, but we shouldn't be able to face a gigantic killer rabbit and laugh in its face as it does 1% damage per hit and takes 3 auto attacks to kill....

[Shurrikhan]

Same reaction. The open world feels like a shallow skin of no consequence already. We need to make it more so? What? Why?

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that HP = difficulty. Far from it. But to see that increasing engagement, rather than merely circumventing the issue (as a "non-issue") again just means that the open-world will be treated yet again as a floor mat for FATE zergs, dailies/hunts, and gathering 4-node loops, and abandoned thereafter.

Why even go to the expense, then, to create these zones? If not for relic grind gimmicks, PotD will have entirely eclipsed most of those functions anyways. Without them, we'd have more development time available for the gear treadmill of linear dungeons...

I just don't get why XIV spends and seeds towards so many different things only to minimally flesh them out, the open world especially.

[ChandraNoctis]

possibly referring to fates?

[Fawkes]

Too many people don't want to be inconvenienced for them to make much of the world take time to get through. And we'll probably be able to fly in every new zone from now on so making dangerous things that you can just skip over doesn't make much sense anyway.

I think if we are ever going to have a dangerous area it would have to be a special area made just for that, probably with no flying or telepoints. But I don't know if the demand is there for them to make such a place.

[Xyno]

I agree with Yoshi

Location mobs- are just quest trash, they musnt bother the players. So, I like the change

[Silica-chan]

I don't care to much about this. Once we "completed" a zone in HW there was no fighting anymore anyway because we could just fly to avoid anything.

[SilkaN]

When I first entered the Coerthas Western Highlands, I too noticed the enemies' increased damage and HP, but it didn't ruin the zones for me.
In fact, it made me feel like there's danger lurking everywhere (which I had first felt when I started playing WoW, roughly 10 years ago).

Sometimes I really dislike how convenient everything has to be in order to keep people playing.

[Gumbercules]

yeah if anything they should have kept HW lvls of HP and upped the damage mobs can do to a player, not gone back to ARR lvls of mobs XD

[Riardon]

The whole fun with the discovery and roaming in the new areas will last 1 month only. Then you will stack on the new Iddylshire for all the 4.X series and wait for 5.0. So I don't really care a lot about the monsters health. That's because the overworld in this game is not useful. It is mostly a travel scenery for Quests and nice scenery for DoL's activities.