Highly Notorious Monsters

[AttacKat]

But what if you had some HNM's that were instanced, and also some with a spawn window? You could have some nm's that popped every half hour, every 5 minutes, or even several hours. Isn't variety the best thing? That way you're appealing to both casuals AND hardcore players?

And to help determine which method is best liked/enjoyed by the playerbase, w/o anyone crying, is introduce ONE and only ONE HMN, using all the different methods. Doing so will allow SE to keep track of how many battles were activated for each method, and determine which method is the most popular/desired one by the players. Of course, this is just in a very general sense, SE may need to fine tune the details related to this approach.

BTW, I need add this - it seems to me that some of you thinks those of us that plays only a few hours a week are "casual" players, and those that put in long hours daily are hardcore. This is the furthest from the truth as you can get. Often, it just means we are more efficient on our method of playing, making every min count, instead of waiting around.

Personally I do not have issues with activated HNM with pre-conditions, because I have no issues with spending time to meet the necessary requirements. But I can see why some people will be against this method, and sad to say, the only logically reasoning I can think of is they just do not want to bother spending time with pre-conditions, and it is much easier just to wait it out. I cannot say how other plays their game, but I do know for the 1-2 hrs I have each day, I like to be productive with my char when I play, and not sit there for hours and do nothing. I can always just do LS chat to be unproductive.

Item flooding is a moot argument really, as SE can either make the HMN super hard, or loot drop super low. Neither the super low Darklight armor drops, or Iffy Ex, prevented players from doing those "events".

jc

(edited grammar errors)