Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

So when I do sit down to play, I want to actually play the game, not run it in the background while I do something else.

40000 times this. There is seriously no good reason to have lengthy spawn windows. Have the NM pop or not within a reasonable amount of time. It is not reasonable, nor is it healthy, to require players to camp a single NM for hours at a time.

Big scary difficult monsters roaming the world that are so dangerous that they'll always be up when you look for them are fine.

Slow pops and pop windows are not fine.

The thrill of the FIGHT should be where the thrill comes from.

HNMs in old FFXI were fun at first but became unfun when the fights became trivial and the whole thing was all about the claim. I want a thrilling battle with scary NMs that will run around killing everyone if people can't stop them.