Quote Originally Posted by Abauge_Goga View Post
The problem won't be necessarily in the long respawn or short respwan. I hear you and see where you are coming from, but it ultimatelly comes to what gear is best.

If SE makes free roaming NM's drop the best gear in the game, you will inevitably have bots camping it, which is not a good thing.

We already have some NM's that are free roaming and noone kills them anymore since the crap they drop is crap. (except dodore).

I absolutelly want harder stuff as per your OP, i just don't think having open world HNM is the answer. Maybe SE can add more NM's roaming freely that drop certain gear that is beneficial to certain classes, but don't make it "the best" because that will lead to issues.
I sort-of agree. I don't think HNM's should drop all of the best gear. But free-roaming, open-world NM's should drop some great pieces.

I'm going to do what you all love, and reference FFXI:

Dynamis game you AF/Relics

HNM's gave you Defending Rings/Ridill's

Regular NM's gave you O.Kotes/Emp. Pin

Limbus gave you Homam/AF Upgrades.

Notice how half is Open-World, half is instanced. And that is just a morsel of the way drops went.

Again, I don't think HNM's should drop every great piece of gear. But should they drop some amazing pieces? Yes.

Instances should be giving out equally impressive drops at the same time (of course depending on difficulty/etc, we don't want hand outs).