Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Also, to create "meaningful" open world content means it needs to be accessible, which means spawned things (like maps), or random things like hunts (that would get zerged cuz loot)
A ranks and S ranks are only zerged due to their relative rarity. Drop the respawn timer on A ranks to every hour and you are more likely to see groups of about 8 to 48 hunting them rather than a server and a half.

And maps of savage difficulty I don't ever see happening.
Savage maybe not but Extreme trial difficulty should be fine and they could provide similar ilevel endgame gear.

And for solo maps, they'd have to design the fights for what, 17 different jobs?
The Mysterious Maps from patch 2.28 had several solo fights which a fair amount of mechanical complexity and they seem to have made the Bozja duels possible to complete by all jobs as long as they have the right actions.

Otherwise you'd basically have a repeat of potd, with rdm being the only one able to clear.
Currently Astrologian is the only job that has not soloed floor 200 of PotD.