Personally I dislike the concept of free land NMs for drops for gear. I can say I did mostly everything in XI that I could. Limbus, ZNMs, salvage, dyna, nyzul, einherjar etc, what to know what I did NOT do? KB, Cerb, Sky and Sea. I did a bit of sky and a bit if sea but quickly left them to the people spending hours touching themselves for a chance to claim a boss theat they might get a drop off of. There is not an item in the game that is worth a couple of hundred hours of doing nothing to get. The NMs in XI were rare, and even rarer to try to claim, and very unsatisfying when you did claim them, take mobs hp >0 before he kills you, and small drop rates when you do.

I play a game because I want to PLAY the game, not site around waiting for something to happen so I can get a chance to paly the game. hHw many hours do peopel spend running around trying to target and claim adamantoise or such? not worth it IMO. Give me content that I can play when my friends are around or with a pug liek Nyzul, or missions, or limbus or such, It is very discouraging to see people talking about free roaming buffalo and saying it is content and there are items comming from that bcause that sounds like the flawed logic that FFXI had in zilart and personally I thought XI got better with the expansions. Free roaming NMS is a throwback to what I consider bad game design and prevents your players from playing the game.