Highly Notorious Monsters

[Xaimera]

I loved HNMs and NMs and ZNMs and w/e else FFXI had to offer and I am all for this!
But yes of course I hope they can find a way to make it less competitive maybe by just a little,
cuz the tiny cramped areas trying to load 500 ppl and a mob... gl seeing that thing appear on ur screen lol ;P

[Nadrojj]

Was just discussing with a co-worker who plays the game with me, I'd love to see a variation of something that was already somewhat mentioned in this thread.

Once per month have a HNM spawn, attack one of the cities, or the surrounding outlying areas. The entire zone can engage the mob in parties of 8. Have in game goals during the fight for the party to achieve like

1. do X amount of damage to mob in X amount of time
2. Heal members of party x amount of points in x amount of time
3. battle would last a certain amount of time if goals were met then a chest would spawn with 8 items inside
4. make the item chests tiered like lvl 1 lvl 2 and set the goals accordingly - the higher the goal the better the gear in the chest

5. since this would be a once per month instance the devs could update the loot table monthly to keep it appealing to the player base

I think this would be so awesome. I mean after a while instances become boring, so an instance like this for a good group of players might not hold their attention for too long. If however the loot table was constantly updated and maybe say achievements or titles were handed out I think this event would keep the player base engaged for quite some time. They could set the date when you log in, that day you know like hey mom gotta skip family dinner tonight, a giant turtle is going to be attacking the city at 8pm and I've got to rally my comrades some I can get some loot.

Each month cycle in a new NM, six in total so you'd fight the same NM twice per year maybe. They could set up an in game currency system where if you got a drop you didn't want and another NM drops something you do want you could trade an item in for points toward the one you do want. This to me would be amazing, I would love to see some sort of system like this implemented.

[Griffster]

Another vote and bump for NM's of all sorts. Camping VE for friends in LS as RNG/THF always a good memory. The LS shouts of Faust is up! gogogogogogogo!!!!! We need things like this.

[Xatsh]

We need NMs but in moderation. XI started doing it right towards the end. World spawns and Instanced content which droped the same stuff. People with no life and people who hate camping mobs both win.

[TaalAzura]

Was just discussing with a co-worker who plays the game with me, I'd love to see a variation of something that was already somewhat mentioned in this thread.

Once per month have a HNM spawn, attack one of the cities, or the surrounding outlying areas. The entire zone can engage the mob in parties of 8. Have in game goals during the fight for the party to achieve like

1. do X amount of damage to mob in X amount of time
2. Heal members of party x amount of points in x amount of time
3. battle would last a certain amount of time if goals were met then a chest would spawn with 8 items inside
4. make the item chests tiered like lvl 1 lvl 2 and set the goals accordingly - the higher the goal the better the gear in the chest

5. since this would be a once per month instance the devs could update the loot table monthly to keep it appealing to the player base

I think this would be so awesome. I mean after a while instances become boring, so an instance like this for a good group of players might not hold their attention for too long. If however the loot table was constantly updated and maybe say achievements or titles were handed out I think this event would keep the player base engaged for quite some time. They could set the date when you log in, that day you know like hey mom gotta skip family dinner tonight, a giant turtle is going to be attacking the city at 8pm and I've got to rally my comrades some I can get some loot.

Each month cycle in a new NM, six in total so you'd fight the same NM twice per year maybe. They could set up an in game currency system where if you got a drop you didn't want and another NM drops something you do want you could trade an item in for points toward the one you do want. This to me would be amazing, I would love to see some sort of system like this implemented.

The only this with trying to gauge how well you did in the party is for instance: You have a really good tank who does his job well, and can keep his health high a large portion of the fight. White mages will get shafted on drops because the tank is really good?

[AdorraEloom]

Not sure if this idea was already mentioned, But a possible way to spawn HNM's in the open world could be Key items from chests from events such as primals, and instanced chests (AV-CC-EX...) This would encourage players to do more instances as they would have more loot to look forward to aside from dark matter.

[ShinigamiKayla]

I'd like to kill HNMs I always enjoyed the rare times I got to come along and help with stuff but with how life is I never really had the time to do much of it... the thing with HNMs is that Competition v/s Time either your there and someone else claims or your not there at all... I'd love to do them but I would probably never even get to do one once x_x

[Nadrojj]

The only this with trying to gauge how well you did in the party is for instance: You have a really good tank who does his job well, and can keep his health high a large portion of the fight. White mages will get shafted on drops because the tank is really good?

The monster difficulty would result in every person needing to do their job, and making each job necessary, for instance an AOE that hits all melee within range, that would result in whms needing to cure/debuff status ailments.

[VitoScaletta]

Holy necro bump...yes I want HNMs. im sure we will see them.

[Nadrojj]

Holy necro bump...yes I want HNMs. im sure we will see them.

Yeah was reading BG and saw this in someone's sig, decided to re-read and saw a response to what I had written. I am hoping for HNMs myself, I don't want them to be timed pops so they can be botted, but I hope they are item popped so you can farm said item and pop the mob you want like in Abyssea in ffxi.