Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

I must agree with the post *at the top of the page*.

Just so you know, the number of posts per page is configurable, so what's at the top of a page for you isn't necessarily at the top of someone else's page.

(posted because I have no idea which post you're agreeing with)

Two points. a) you wouldn't be doing that if you didn't know the last spawn time, and b) the thrill of claiming a nm that has a longer spawn window is very exciting.

Maybe you found it thrilling, but I sure didn't. To me, it was a waste of 2-3 hours. The thrilling part for me was the fight, and getting the drop. If I want to compete with somebody, it's going to be on the PvP battlefield. I don't want to compete with 150 other people to fight an NM that pops once a week. I come for the fight, not the waiting. The main reason people got such a charge out of this is there weren't many other ways to be competitive in the game. XIV offers more ways to compete against others.

It was honestly hard to get fired up about an impending pop when you knew several of the people around you were using hacks/bots to try to get an advantage. At least on my server on XI, most of the people I knew who were asking for more HNM were drama queens that enjoyed it because they enjoyed starting drama crap with other people in the area.

TL;DR: to me, the fun part about HNMs is fighting them- they're supposed to be challenging fights. The whole sit 2-3 hours and press provoke before 100 other other people thing just wasn't fun to me. Whenever my LS was like "Faf pop coming soon get over to dragon's aery" I was like "great, all my plans for tonight are out the window."

If you really want it, you can get the thrill of the claim without having to sit around and wait multiple hours for it- it really doesn't have to be that way to be fun/thrilling.