Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
I'd say those are pretty exclusive. No new player from here on will ever have them, and not every current player was able to obtain them either.

No... because as you said yourself, you had to be active- you had to be looking for them to find them. Not standing in one spot for hours at a time. Also, Dark Ixion couldn't even be claimed by normal means. You had to have a special item to fight him. This makes him a lot different from your typical HNM.

As I've said several times within the span of a few posts. There are lots of ways we can create big scary world spawn monsters and have them drop rare items without it being an AFK-for-29.5-of-30-minutes provoke lottery. People are just clinging to the old systems because that's what they've always known and for some reason i still don't understand, they find being afk for hours thrilling.

I'd honestly like to see more stuff like AV and pandy warden... just not quite as cryptic and somewhat conceivable to beat at the level cap they were introduced at.

It's the 30 seconds of suspense between each window that gives you a break from the monotony of absolutely nothing happening, not the other way around. I don't see the 30 minutes between each spawn window as a "break." It's not like I'd been working hard in the 30 seconds of anticipation of the pop or working hard walking to the dragon's aery.
See your still missing your own quote. You said 'you should not be locked out of a reward if you can not play the game for 2-3 hours straight.'. Regardless of the fact that your active, it's still 2-3 hours, as are many events in XI, including just some simple leveling. But as you said, since you don't have that kind of time, that kind of content shouldn't be provided. And I would disagree.

I do however agree that the 30-60secs at the window was the suspense for those HNM that were on that system, which is why I explained in detail all the things that we (and others who'd rather not just simply twiddle thumbs)did in between those windows. We're just going in circles and it's late for me.... so... yeah..