Highly Notorious Monsters

[Miliant]

I must agree with the post *at the top of the page*. I don't believe HNM are a viable option for me. It's a FFXI mechanic that works well in FFXI, but this isn't FFXI.

I didn't mind spending my free time hunting HNMs for drops in FFXI. But that was like 10 years ago and I was 17 years old and I had a lot of time to burn. The "huge-time-sink-for-nothing" mechanics that defined FFXI no longer cut it for me, and I don't want to sit in front of my computer idly for a slim chance at the HNM that may drop something that only 1 person out of the 18-man alliance is going to get. IMO, that's no longer acceptable for a game I'm actually throwing money at every month to enjoy.

Make it insanely hard. Make drop rates suck. Make just one person get the drop I don't care. But don't make me waste two to infinite hours of my life just to watch someone else kill the enemy.