Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
FFXI's world NMs were absolutely terrible. FFXIV's previous roaming NMs did have exciting battles, but again, if it followed the same underlining system as FFXI, then it suffers from the same extremely terrible flaws.

I'm not saying do away with world bosses. I'm saying revamp the loot and claim systems surrounding them.

I cannot stress this enough - unchecked aggressive competition and monopolization is critically bad for a game's overall health. It's choked every MMO to date down to it's minimal hardcore base - encouraged RMT and 3rd party abuses and bottlenecks the entity game economy.

Epic fights? Yes please.
Dragon's Aery-2? F^*& No!
However, this would be easily fixed here tho. As a casual-friendly, stressfree, goal-oriented game (by then) it would be expected to have leves balancing this if we ever get close to a claim monopoly. What would be the point of risking a ban with claim bots if you could, from time to time, fight that NM at leves?

You can see this line of development at FFXI as well, where stuff that were having bot issues changing to forced pop and/or BCNM.