Quote Originally Posted by Richard_BG View Post
The JP community coined the term HNM but I highly doubt that they received the same "treatment" and design as regular NMs from the dev team in FFXI. They are in a league of their own which is why they are considered "HNM".
When they added Dodore and such they was just called NM's by the Dev team which means they basically fall in the same category. HNM is just a player term, all nm's in the game are just NM's to the dev team and nothing more.