Thread: You can bring back 2 features from 1.0 what would it be?

Originally Posted by Nabian

I miss having overworld enemies that could easily kill max level/capped/overgeared players. The world felt dangerous. Also, maybe it was just me but trial fights were hard (granted a lot of that was due to lag).

I mean, yes, the fights were harder in 1.0, but as you note, a large portion of that difficulty was less due to harder mechanics and more because the network code was jank as heck.

(I mean, the network code is still jank as heck—witness that the current player-written MNK job optimization document for savage raiding is literally titled "Game's Haunted" and has sections like "Generally Cursed Things", "Nightmare Frontier" and whatnot all dedicated to How the Jank Affects You. It's just less jank. The jank is now whale-sized rather than the size of Midgardsormr as in 1.0... and by that, I mean the World Serpent of real-world Norse mythology, not the dragon in FFXIV.)

That said, I agree on missing the sense of danger in the world. Part of why I enjoy Eureka is because there's a genuine feeling of threat in there if you're careless which is lacking in normal overworld content. But I also recognize that's not a thing that people generally want these days... even many of us who played classic MMOs where the world itself was full of threat and death had serious consequences. If we were playing those games in high school, now we have jobs, lives, kids, other hobbies, whatever. Losing two character levels due to some giant mob sitting on the path to a quest you needed felt like a challenge then; now, grinding back to where you had been could feel like a chore in the midst of normal life.

(Though, I mean, with COVID putting half of the world on hold, I suppose right now we do have time for all that again...)