Highly Notorious Monsters

[Alhanelem]

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

Um, you didn't read my quote correctly:

I shouldn't be locked out of a sweet drop if I'm not willing to NOT play the game for 2-3 hours straight.

I'm totally willing to play the game for 2-3 hours straight. I'm NOT willing to be AFK for 2-3 hours to fight an HNM like you generally were for HNMs like fafnir/adamantoise/behemoth. (please go back and read it if you think I modified it- I only highlighted the word NOT for you, because it makes all the difference)

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 never said that, and I do have that kind of time. I'm NOT stating that HNM content shouldn't be provided. I'm saying that HNM content where the HNM has several hours worth of 30 minute spawn windows instead of just popping when it's due shouldn't be provided. This is not a casual vs hardcore issue. I can play the game all day. I do NOT however want to spend several hours of my play time idle waiting for an NM to pop when I know it's ToD. Windows shouldn't even exist, but if they do they should be short, not half an hour. Anything more than 5 minutes is just needless waiting for no good reason, but arbitrary wait times in general are not fun. Making it so you have to wait forever to play certain content is not the only, nor is it the best, way to make valuable drops rare.

HNMs are fine- shitty, antiquated mechanics are not. If you read my whole posts instead of locking your mind onto that one quote that you misread, you'd understand my position a lot better.

people will do it anyways. botting is coming back 100%, just look at all the crafting bots in V1.

Saying that eliminating cheating is a hopeless endeavor is not much of a reason to retain an exploitable and already unpleasant anyway mechanic.