Highly Notorious Monsters

[Elexia]

Just to use another example, I remember pretty vividly spending several hours with my LS trying to kill Jormungand in XI. Who wanted any of his POS drops? No one, you did it for fun.

Same with Vrtra, sure it had a cashmere drop, but once the other sources were located, you killed it for fun, not for profit or loot lol.

[ThePatriarch]

Same with Vrtra, sure it had a cashmere drop, but once the other sources were located, you killed it for fun, not for profit or loot lol.

Vrtra, Jormungand, Hydra (lol), there were alot of NM's that people wanted to kill just for the challenge.

And before people go on about them not being challenging, in the early days. I assure you, Vrtra was hard. Jorm was hard. The first couple Hydra attempts were maddening because all of a sudden you starting doing no damage to it, and it regened!

Not all HNM's need to have amazing drops, they can just be very, very hard monsters that linkshells use to hone their talents and become stronger.