Highly Notorious Monsters

[Sephrick]

So please Sephrick, continue to inform us on how HNM's are crap. And how 2.0 is going to bring us into a euphoric land of happiness, with impossible Instanced raids that will drop relics so that everyone can have the same gear.

You approach this whole topic with a sense of smug condescension. As if you've gazed into a crystal ball and saw what the 2.0 instances will be like. None of us know what the content will be like. But SE certainly isn't going to hand out gear in 2.0. In 1.x, sure, because it's only meant to keep us around for another seven months or so.

I am here, along with many others to make sure that 2.0 will have more than just shitty instances. Get used to me, I am going no where.

And I'm here to play the game that SE said they needed two years to make. Not to try and force them to remake a game that died out five years ago.

And see, this is where you're at fault. You're the one assuming you know what the content design will be like. You're the one automatically assuming the 2.0 instances will be, as you put it so eloquently, "shitty."

All I'm saying is Ifrit is clearly an example of what they'd like to do. But the design team is stifled by the servers and engine.

And the stubborn comment... Coming from the guy posting in nearly every thread preaching the greatness of the instances 2.0 will bring. All you are doing is keeping my thread at the top. So I will give you a small thanks, and hopefully you will assist in us getting a Dev comment.

I'd still like to discuss compromise. But no one is willing to. It's "uber gear from HNMs" or nothing at all.

Which brings me back to the point that SE has stated their intentions with what content will be like in 2.0. You and a handful of posters want it to not be that. Do you really believe SE is going to go back to the drawing board again? 2.0 is their sink or swim moment for XIV.

I'd love to get a dev response. I'd be all for HNMs that drop trophies or gear equivalent to instanced content. I keep saying that yet people keep coming at me as if I didn't, so I respond.

So if you respond to anything in this post, make it this: Is dropping equivalent gear enough? HNM drops Uber Sword of Epicness, instance drops Epic Sword of Uberness, both have the same stats but different graphics each are as difficult to get. Is that a satisfactory compromise? Then the player base can decide their favored method of game play.