Highly Notorious Monsters

[firepixiedarien]

Open world content should be just as rewarding. This is the problem with new MMOs, they put everything in instances and pretty much negate the reason for being an MMO in the first place. Same with quest based leveling, what's the purpose of having monsters strown about that isn't part of your kill 5 boars for 7,000,000 exp and 70,000 gold quest completion?

If anything it should be a tier above instanced gear, not only will it drive competition up it will be very temptin to actually do the content.

I totally agree, I prefer Open-World content. But with the very first Player's Poll taken, it was decided that the focus be on Instanced content.

This is why *in the current state* of the game and its Instanced focus, Open-World HNMs should not drop the best gear (but next to best). And like i said, to discourage animosity between competing groups, they should be attackable by anyone at any time, but only people within a certain level can lot its drops.

Not gonna lie: whenever my LS in FF11 didn't get the claim on an HNM, I was always hoping the other LS would wipe.

Content exists so we can do it, but it should promote camaraderie, not animosity.