Highly Notorious Monsters

[Jeronlmo]

1)I don't see how the amount of time a monster takes to spawn or the amount of that time that you actually end up waiting for it is relevant. good drops should be rewarded more for challenge than for the amount of time you spend twiddling your thumbs. I don't see why sitting around camping waiting for an NM to pop makes you more deserving of a reward than if you just have a challenging fight with low drop rates. I've never minded once a day spawns, but I do mind the 3 hours of 30 minute spawn windows.

2)Specifically at the first part of your sentence, it's really not possible to make it where every time you fight a monster it feels amazing. It always feels better the first time- but it sure doesn't feel better when the fight is easy and the only hard part was beating 100 other people to pressing the claim button. XIV 1.0 had its share of rare drops that not everybody had. Did they need 3-7 day spawns with 30 minute windows throughout? No, they didn't. You can't tell me you didn't get this kind of charge out of getting a piece of darklight. If you do, you're being hypocritical, because those weren't common items.

3)That's fine to me as long as the rewards are equivalent in quality (obv. there would be limits on how often you could challenge the instance or have a lower drop rate if you could challenge it more often). If some people want to sit around waiting for something to pop, that's their perogative, but I don't feel that being idle for a few hours entitles someone to a bigger reward.

Just because we don't find camping very fun doesn't mean we're not hardcore players- I'm very much a hardcore player- but I prefer to spend my time in the game immersed in the content as much as possible. I want reward consummate with risk not wait time.

1) So lets all get this right, even though both sides of this have been stated over and over. You... personally... have limited time to play, but are in favor of 24hr respawns but 100% against windows.

Now lets think this through... if something spawns exactly 24hrs after the previous respawn and there is nothing to move the window to other time zones... ever... either you or every single other time zone would never see this mob, have no windows means literally seconds of available time where you would have to be there every day for the claim, end of story.

2) I was going to say FF11 did it, but no, it was by far the closest though, the first maby 5 kills was amazing reguardless of drops, but after that I needed a good drop generally (some of those wake up in the middle of the night to claim/kill days was a happy moment reguardless of drops), but the fact that every single time i saw an e.body/ridill/d.ring/a.body or any drop anyone there needed atleast in my eyes means they did it right.

3) OMG... its called einherjar, it had literally the exact same drops as the HNM's, and had higher drop rates... and more drops, for the love of god look up einherjar or something so I can stop repeating it.

Camping/having windows has nothing to do with being "hardcore", it makes economical sense. Believe it or not having windows would not benefit me or any of these other people, windows share the HNM's between time zones and keeps them rare at the same time. All of these other methods we keep getting repeated to us sacrifice one or the other, your either trying to keep the HNM in your specific time zone 100% of the time (which you are), or others are trying to lower respawns/make it an instance and make it worthless and burn the content within weeks of release.

In short, you do not have to like windows, but they should be there to keep the balance, you have an alternative... or atleast you did in FF11, what you should be fighting for is making sure an event is released like einherjar (in terms of having the same drops).