Highly Notorious Monsters

[Exn]

You tried to make your point, but to many, myself included, failed to prove it is required in ARR.

Well I never attempted to prove it was required in ARR, so I guess that's where you went wrong. My only point there was, simply exactly what I said, debunking the myth that you had to twiddle your thumbs during pop windows.

Noone, certainly not me, is forcing you to do anything, or play any certain way. I only asked for this content to be included.. not for your favorite content to be excluded simply because I either don't like it or don't get it (as you are doing...). I also suggested in earlier posts that the rewards for HNM content could be duplicated in other instanced content.. effectively taking ANY valid reason for you to argue against providing all the types of endgame content to ARR. If you could explain to me why you can't understand that.. ?.. meh, nevermind.. I guess you just don't want to get it.

[Eekiki]

I don't want to see the old school version of FFXI's HNMs show up here. I've been liking how it works in XI now with the Voidwatch and Abyssea NMs. Triggered pops, and in many cases you need to farm the triggers through several tiers of lesser NM battles.

And I'd like to see these fights go in stages. Instead of slowly and blandly chipping away at an HP bar for 45 minutes, mix things up a bit. Y'know, like at 75% HP you get a new attack pattern to watch out for. At 50% HP it becomes immune to a certain kind of attack until you do something (debuff, deal a certain amount of damage, etc.) to trigger that immunity off. At 25% HP it goes crazy and you need to finish it off ASAP before it kills the universe.

Just a hypothetical description, but something like that. Know what I'm sayin'?

All that aside, there also needs to be a place for free roaming NMs. They simply need to be only one of many vehicles for satiating the lust for gear.